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Don't you have a CD-RW you can use? At least then you aren't wasting a CD (which I assume is what you're worried about). There are some virtual recorder programs out there too.

It looks like your drive is having trouble initialising those discs. It's reporting the wrong size and the MID is all messed up too. Try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc or buying better quality discs.

The program isn't stopping, your system is. Post the log (as much as you get) so we can see what's going on. We'll also need to see your filter driver list (look in the tools menu) and your device's 'Family Tree' (right click the drive selection box).

Cool, I'm glad you sorted it.

So if it's not showing the window now, your problem has been solved, correct?

telnet services? I only know telnet (client) as old command line tool. I guess it's something you installed yourself - a telnet server or whatever. If it's not showing the hidden window when you disable the telnet services then I guess they must have been messing with things.

Not really... especially as it looks like the firmware version is actually QM62 - as taken from the device identifier you posted above. By learning of the drive's actual manufacturer, what exactly were you hoping for anyway? Even if it is a rebranded LiteOn, the Memorex firmware may have disabled some of the usual LiteOn features/functionality.

Ah, the bootable bit of that ISO uses hard drive emulation. I guess some physical machines may not support that. Of course when it comes to virtual machines, if they're happy booting the mounted ISO then they should be happy booting the physical disc. Perhaps the I/O commands used to boot it don't work on the physical drive? Have you tried burning it to a DVD to see if the same thing happens?

Can you get me a screenshot of the entire desktop so I can see it in action please?

It's probably a LiteOn. It looks to be quite an old version too... have you really only just purchased it?

What does it show up as in the program?

If the ISO boots then the disc should do too. You were trying to boot it from that same physical drive yeah? Obviously Verify only checks the disc is readable in the drive being used. Read your burnt disc to a new ISO and compare it (at byte level in a Hex editor or something) to the original ISO.

That's the whole point, it's not supposed to be on the taskbar - it certainly isn't (and hasn't ever been) on mine. When I said 'special', I meant out of the ordinary - like maybe you have a certain (3rd party) theme running or have changed something about the OS away from how it was designed.

That window isn't supposed to be visible and you can't get rid of it because that's just how C++ Builder applications work. What's special about your OS environment that's making it visible in the first place?

Without verifying it, there's no real way of knowing. What I'd probably do if I were you is perform a full format on the disc and then try again. If your drive continues to have problems burning 'MBIPG101-W04-00' MID/dye discs, get yourself some different ones.

Can you post a log so we can see what you were doing? It might also help if we knew what you burnt and what you expect to be able to do with it. Screenshots of an Explorer window showing the contents of the disc would be nice. If Explorer isn't showing the file on the disc, try looking at it using IsoBuster instead. There's no reason for what you're saying has happened to be happening. btw, all files on an optical disc (burnt normally) will say 'read only'

Yes, assuming your system (hdds) can cope with providing enough data for 2 (or more) burns at the same time.

1. Yes 2. No, not really. If it's a data disc and you aren't concerned about keeping the original file system then you could use Build mode and point the 'Source' at one optical drive and the 'Destination' at another. 3. No, not unless there's a DirectShow filter of some description that handles it. 4. No. Either it fits or it doesn't (remove a track!). Overburning may work or buy 90 / 99 minute discs. 5. No.

How often does it happen? Often enough for you to be able to capture any I/O sent to the drive to see if it's the drive itself doing it or some software running in the background on your PC?

You can't make an image, no. You have to burn the CUE (created by following the Audio CD guide) to disc using Write mode (but it could be a virtual disc/drive if you have a virtual recorder program). It's probably easier / quicker to just burn to CD-RW and read it back to an image.

I can't answer that, you'll have to burn some discs and scan them yourself. If the only way you can get the drive to burn those discs 100% is by having them off, obviously you shouldn't have turned them on in the first place!

If you have ImgBurn.ini in the same folder as ImgBurn.exe, it'll use that automatically before looking for and loading any settings in the registry.

Different drives and different firmware versions like different discs. The write speed you select also makes a difference, as do the eeprom/advanced settings you configure within the drive - like how you've enabled 'Force HT'.

They change the way the drive burns the disc - so yeah, the quality of the burn will change depending on what you've selected. The settings are nothing to do with the program, it's all internal drive logic stuff.

I found and uploaded a new firmware for you here too... http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/CH10LS20/files.html