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That's 'CD Extra'. It is possible but far from easy so you're better off using something else for the job.

The correct layerbreak position is read from the .DVD file. You haven't ever needed to set ImgBurn to any value manually.

Please post the log - as per the pink box up the top

Refer to the following line in the log... W 11:54:23 The drive only supports writing these discs at 2.4x. It doesn't matter what you try and set the speed to, the drive will only ever burn at 2.4x.

Put the original disc back in the drive, switch to read mode and copy + paste the disc info from the box on the right of the main window please.

Forget Patin-Couffin, it's not going to fix anything. Go back to SPTI. If that was your first failure, just ignore it and try again. Your drive shouldn't be having a problem burning to those discs. If it keeps happening, try getting the MKM-003-00 discs instead (Verbatim 8x). If it fails to burn those too, your drive is faulty.

ImgBurn is more of a power tool than an easy tool. If you're used to Burning Studio and it's working ok for you, just stick with it. 1. Use the write files/folders to disc option. You might prefer Advanced input mode (menu at the top). The file system should probably be set to ISO9660+Joliet. 2. ImgBurn doesn't convert files so if you burn AVI files you'll end up with AVI files on the disc. Beyond that, it's the same process as above.

Post the whole log please. If you used ImgBurn to read the original, post the log from that session too. You might just find it's not possible to make an exact copy though - in which case the backup may never work.

Post the log please - as per the pink box up the top

Using eSATA would do away with the semaphore timeout issue, yes.

I had the most consistent burns with OPC off and burning at 4x. The best eeprom settings for me were: Advanced Settings - Force HT: Yes, Online HT: No, OverSpeed: No, SmartBurn: Yes All of this can be seen in the iHAS124 thread in the Drives forum.

Correct.

They're essentially the same thing. The MDS is a little info file and ImgBurn will pull the data in from the ISO automatically. You could live without the MDS but don't delete the ISO

Unless you're just talking about burning AVI files as a data disc, no. You can only have one DVD/BD Video on a disc. You could, I guess, reauthor a totally new disc with a 3rd party tool and add a menu to pick between the various movies - but that's nothing to do with ImgBurn and not something I've ever done/could help you with.

ImgBurn burns as-is. So if you're burning AVI files, you end up with AVI files on the disc. If your player doesn't support AVI files then obviously the disc won't play. If you want a proper DVD Video disc then you'll have to use another program to do that conversion (DVD Flick, ConvertXtoDVD etc) and then burn the output (a VIDEO_TS folder) with ImgBurn.

What you're burning should make no difference, something about your enclosure / USB chipset combo just isn't working nicely together and it's timing out the commands long before they're supposed to time out. Put service pack 1 on for Windows 7, that may help.

Your drive can't burn DVDs, it can only read them.

Please post the log - as per the pink box up the top

What's the problem with flashing from the tool built into the bios? You might just need a USB stick using the FAT32 file system... but that's easy enough - even if your current stick is using NTFS. Failing that you have the option of using the Windows flasher built into their software suite. Beyond that, if you really need to burn it to disc, go with ISO9660+Joliet file systems within Build mode. Use a rewritable so you don't waste a disc on something so small.

Yes. Of the 3 supported file systems, UDF is the best one - so that's the one you should use for normal data backups. The version you use isn't all that important. Newer versions (2.5/2.6) are only readable on Vista+ but have additional redundancy built in. It all comes down to how you want to use your discs.

Provide the link to the file please. We can't recommend something if we don't know what we're working with.

Update the JMicron device manually via Device Manager then. After extracting the zip somewhere, point the update driver process at R1.17.63.01\Driver\amd64. Do you have any other optical drive related programs installed? Do you have anything like 'Unlocker' or 'LockHunter' installed? Maybe one of those would tell you what's causing the 'Access Denied' messages when trying to communicate with your Pioneer drive? Just right click the drive and pick 'Unlocker' or 'What's locking this file?'.

I'm afraid that log file doesn't contain anything useful. It's not updated in real time, just when you close the program down. So either copy + paste everything from the log window I see in your screenshot (assuming you haven't closed the program) or check its contents have been written to the log file and upload it again. The program version has nothing to do with your drive's ability to burn discs. Rather than trying to burn those discs at 'Max' speed, use something like 8x instead.

Right so if the source disc was a DVD and once you've created an image of it you can't burn it to a CD (because CD doesn't hold as much), you'll either have to... 1. Buy a DVD writer so you can burn to DVDs or 2. Copy all the files off the source disc into a folder on your computer (using drag+drop in Explorer), split them into chunks of around 690MB and then burn each chunk to its own CD.

Maybe what you're trying to write isn't meant to be burnt to a disc at all. Size wise, the next one up from CD is DVD. But like I said, your drive can't burn those. You can get oversized CD-R discs - normal ones are 74 or 80 mins (of CD Audio, which is about 640/700MB in data terms) but you can get 90 and 99 minute ones too if you look hard enough. Not all drives will support burning to them though. What's the file you're trying to burn?