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A bump...seriously? Some people do sleep you know. Did you select to boot from the cd/dvd drive when the machine booted up? You could either do that via the bios or maybe some one time boot menu.

Was it a one off failure? Ignore it.

Use advanced input mode, that's what it's there for.

It didn't do that, it's impossible. All ImgBurn does is issue a command to get the discs copy protection system type and warn the user if it's CSS protected. Nothing more, nothing less. I'm sorry but your problem lies elsewhere. What happens if you insert a disc and try to read it in ImgBurn? (Click the 'Create Image File From Disc' button) Does the program report 'Ready' in the status bar at the bottom of the main window or does it say some other message?

They shouldn't be selling it at all.

'CD Control Error' isn't one that pops up very often but the actual error numbers (ASC 0x73, ASCQ 0x00) are very similar to loads of other 'power calibration' related errors (all ASC 0x73 but with ASCQ values of 0x01 to 0x17). Power calibration errors are typically a sign of a bad drive/firmware/media combo (or a dirty / dying drive). It's not about burning at slower speeds, some just work better than others - they could be faster or slower. You only had a choice of 2 and so could only go slower.

It's greyed out because it doesn't apply. If you want to verify a read operation you have to do it manually - as you have been doing.

Same issue at 4x rather than 'Max' (6x) ? If so, you'll just have to wait for another firmware update and hope support for the MID has improved.

As such things don't exist, I highly doubt it!

"AUTO" gets remapped to whatever "AWS" is (depends on the current translation).

Update the firmware on your drive. http://www.firmwarehq.com/NEC/ND-1300A/files.html Update ImgBurn If your discs don't play on your standalone player, maybe it doesn't like the media - 'CMC MAG-M01-00' aren't great quality discs. The burn quality achieved by your burner might not be up to much either - the firmware update may help that. I assume you created a DVD Video disc that your player supports? i.e. it's in NTSC format and not PAL.

Even if you did, you could just use a 'CD' entry and a 'DVD' one.

Your drive failing to burn a disc is not an issue with ImgBurn. Consider this thread moved to support. Now you're here, do as the pink box up the top says and post a log so we can see what's going on.

No but you could configure the 'Automatic Write Speed' feature as per the guide.

Extract the zip to the ImgBurn\Languages folder.

Ah damn, I see the problem ( )... the code looking for the BDAV/BDMV folders was returning the opposite of what it should have been. One of the conditional checks was then passing when it shouldn't have been, causing the MDS to get created. Consider it fixed for the next release.

I don't know what you added to the 'Source' box in Build mode but it was wrong (and tiny in size). You can't just put a VOB in a VIDEO_TS folder and expect the disc to play, it won't. You need a proper set of DVD video files (IFO/VOB/BUP). If your current software can't do that, try another one.

Put the disc in the drive, load ImgBurn, switch to Write mode and look in the disc info box on the right. In there you should find the disc/manufacturer ID somewhere.

It would totally depend on the MID of the discs. It supports 2.4x DVD+RW in general though, yes.

Ignore the MDS checkbox in the settings, I'm talking about the drop down box called 'Create Image Layout File'. It defaults to 'Auto' but maybe you've set it to 'Yes'. When on 'Auto' (and based on the info I see in the log), it wouldn't be creating an MDS when reading that disc.* *Unless it contains a BDAV/BDMV folder.

You want some decent DVD-R discs - Taiyo Yuden (Victor JVC) or Verbatim. What you're burning to the disc makes no difference, data is data.

Buy better discs - and not rewritable ones.

I was talking about this one. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=59&view=findpost&p=76706 As you say, there must just be something not quite right with the files.

Normally it's stuff like antivirus utils, backup, defrag, indexing etc.

Try clearing the OPC history via the advanced settings (where HyperTuning etc are configured). If the drive light double flashes whilst burning the 'OTCBDR-001-000' discs it means HyperTuning has automatically been enabled for the disc - either because you've enabled it by force or because the drive doesn't know how to burn that MID.