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Update the firmware on your drive. http://www.firmwarehq.com/Samsung/SH-S203B/files.html It could be a bug in the firmware you're running that's causing the track to look smaller than it actually is.

You don't appear to have installed the firmware update that Cynthia mentioned. Did you try? Did it fail? Can the drive burn CDs? Perhaps try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc. Try burning from within 'Safe Mode'. Set the Write Speed to 8x.

Sorry, are you saying that box pops up in the middle of the burn? That's not an error from ImgBurn, it's from Windows. Knowing *exactly* when and where it pops up is crucial to figuring out why it might be happening.

I'm late but I hope you had a good one!

Tools -> Settings -> I/O -> Page 2

It's probably worth buying another spindle and testing it out. They're cheap enough.

The 'Browse for a file' type dialog boxes in the 'Create DVD / MDS' features typically use a copy+paste of the code from elsewhere. Maybe NRG doesn't really belong in there. Some NRG files are supported by ImgBurn (in Write mode) but they're only basic single session/track ones. More often than not, that's enough.

If you (can) have multiple ISO files on a single disc, it's unlikely they're double layer DVD images (which is where you'd perhaps want the MDS files) - unless you're burning to Blu-ray media of course. As such, the MDS is probably being created so you can mount the ISO (which must have been under 1GB in size) in the likes of DAEMON Tools and have it emulate a DVD-ROM disc rather than a CD-ROM.

Yes, in the readme.txt file installed alongside imgburn.exe.

I'm afraid you're asking questions about a level of interaction that's below what ImgBurn works at. That's to say, it's an issue between the drive, its firmware and the media. Only LiteOn could really tell you the ins and outs of why it's failing. The software has nothing to do with the physical 'burning' of the disc, it just sends data to the drive. It controls the 'what', not the 'how'.

The drive is complaining about the discs. It can't find a suitable laser power to use for burning them - hence the 'Power Calibration Area Error' it's returning. That could be a result of you having OHT and FHT enabled. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

There are a lot of files/folders on that disc... plus it's very small. Are you sure the files you burnt were prepared correctly? You should re-enable 'Verify' so the program checks the disc is readable once the burn has completed.

You can't burn images of that size properly with your drive. That standalone verify session log is pointless. You aren't even using the most recent version of the program. Don't claim something is broken when you clearly have no idea what you're doing/talking about - in this field anyway.

Sorry, this is a (recently) known issue. It happens when you read a disc recorded in TAO mode to an image and then try to burn it. If it's a simple data disc, delete the CUE and just burn the BIN file.

Sorry, I don't know. I've never heard of this problem before. Maybe some software on your machine is blocking writes to the registry (badly) or something.

The drive might not like those discs, buy the Verbatim ones that everyone recommends. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

It's exactly the same thing, you're just changing one type of media for another.

Boot into safe mode and see if it can open / close ok within that. 'Saving Settings' is an odd place for it to get stuck.

Technically, the program will ask the drive to burn at whatever speed you set/tell it to. It's then down to the drive to actually honour the request

No, the size is fine.

If the MD5 of your file(s) match what's written on the download page, your file(s) are fine. If it/they then aren't running, it's probably due to a program running on your machine that's blocking it/them - Antivirus software etc.

Yes. RITEKF1 is 16x media and your drive is supposed to be an 8x drive. So the fact it's only offering 2x and 4x could mean it doesn't really support the RITEKF1 MID/dye at all.

Yeah, it should burn them ok - although obviously I haven't tested this! I've actually ordered a copy of that CD to take a look at it.

This is your drive having problems initialising the disc (rather than ImgBurn) - so yeah, it's totally unreadable in the drive. Assuming it does the same when you burn at 4x, you could try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc and try with better media (as mentioned in my previous post).

Sorry, so how many times have you tried to burn it? Have you tried another disc? What about on a BD-RE DL, just for testing purposes.