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If the OS doesn't see the disc, normally it's because you (or some other app) has killed (disabled) the autoinsert / media control notification stuff built into Windows. I have no problem with it here, Windows usually pops up the 'Autorun' box between a Write and Verify operation - exactly as it should do. Your drive totally vanishing from Explorer isn't a good sign! Look at post #6 here - http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=19159

Why can't you just ditch the Pioneer and put the Asus in its place? You don't need to 'save' your burner just for burning. Save electricity and remove the Plextor too. Personally I'd steer clear of slimline drives and USB drives in general. Slimline drives are rubbish burners and USB has its own issues (semaphore timeouts).

What controller have you attached the drive to? It looks like a general system/controller/driver issue - hence all the 'Potential Bogus Driver Error Detected!' messages.

Those settings worked fine for me in testing - you can check my results in the 'Drives' section (maybe you already did and that's where you got them from?) You don't need to clear OPC every time when using them. I only cleared it before using them for the first time. After that, I didn't touch it. Have you tried another spindle of discs?

You know 2.5.6.0 is the current release yeah? 2.5.3.0 started using the newer method of calling up Microsoft's open/save file boxes. That's probably where the way it worked changed. The correct way to edit the volume label of a currently selected image would be to right click the one that's currently displayed (having already selected a file in Write mode) and then clicking 'Change'. That makes the 'change volume label' dialog load the current image automatically. Basically, when you 'browse' on the 'change volume label' dialog, the way it works is this... 1. It'll check to see if the option to always use the configured 'Image File' folder is set - if it is, it'll use that folder. 2. After that it'll attempt to use the folder of the currently selected image file (i.e. the last file you changed the volume label of). If you close and reopen the window, this can't happen as it's not a persistent value. Just hit 'Apply' and then load your next file if you need to do several in a row. 3. After that it'll use the configured 'Image File' folder. I've just made a change (so it'll be in 2.5.7.0) where the program will attempt to use the most recently used (selected via the 'Browse' box) folder between existing steps 2 and 3 - and this value IS persistent.

If you burnt directly to disc, there isn't going to be one.

If it hasn't already been emptied, try playing the 'C:\Users\Ronnie\Documents\dvd\dvd\video_ts.ifo' file in 'Media Player Classic - Home Cinema' and see what it says for the length.

No offence but I think you're confused or just making things up. If you're burning pre-existing images, the file system and revision of file system aren't (and weren't ever) options you have to worry about.

There's nothing I can do about your machine hanging on certain I/O commands. (Not sending them in the first place isn't really an option ) I've only ever used Silicon Image and ITE based PCI IDE cards. Others may or may not have issues with optical drives - most are designed for hdds and do not fully support the command set used by optical drives. Do you have any other IDE ports you can attach the drive to? Maybe you should have ditched IDE, got a new SATA PCI card (Silicon Image 3512 chipset based - ~£10 off ebay) and an SATA drive - where you of course then have loads more choices.

DVD Flick is seeing your AVI as being 6761 long. 6761 seconds = 112.683333 minutes 112 minutes = 1 hour, 52 minutes. Your topic title suggests 152 minutes (2hrs, 32 mins!)... could that be a mistake on your part?

Sorry, I thought you'd been burning the 4x discs at 4x but it appears (from your initial log) that you've been using 2x. You should try burning them at all of the supported speeds. There could be a firmware bug that produces low (lower) quality burns on them at 2x. So give the 4x discs a go at 4x (and then 6x) What you're burning (the ISO) isn't important. Data is data. The 'f' and 'd' are what differentiate the 4x discs from the 6x discs. It could be anything though so long as the 2 complete strings are unique (against themselves and those used by other manufacturers on other discs).

Had you tried 2x on the 4x 'VERBAT-IMd-000' discs? Without trying multiple spindles of the same discs (same MID/dye) at all supported speeds, it's hard to pin point the problem. With the 'VERBAT-IMf-000' working ok, that should mean it's not a general drive fault. I've seen a few BH10LS30 drives fail with 'VERBAT-IMd-000' discs. Changing speeds or a future firmware update will hopefully fix the issue.

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It's only a Verbatim disc if it uses the actual Verbatim MID/dye. Proper Verbatim BD-RE DL discs are still quite new to the market. Lots of ebay sellers say their BD-RE DL discs are Verbatim ones when they actually have a totally different MID/dye. So before you buy it, ask the seller to provide that info. You probably shouldn't rely on the results from a BD-RE disc, they're just not as reliable as BD-R discs. Try and get the 2x or 6x Verbatims as I mentioned earlier.

You can't, ImgBurn currently always closes/finalises when it burns. Unless you're still running XP (or earlier), just use the burning feature built into the OS for basic multisession data burning.

The image should come out the same both times. Your drive is still returning empty sectors (probably for an entire 32 sector ECC block) when reading. No, writing slower doesn't always produce the best results. You'd have to burn a disc at each speed and then do a disc quality test on each one to see which speed produced the highest quality burn. Try getting the VERBAT-IMb-000 (2x) or VERBAT-IMf-000 (6x) discs instead of the VERBAT-IMd-000 (4x) ones you have now. The alternative would be to try a different drive... maybe a Pioneer BDR-206DBK or a LiteOn iHBS112. The iHBS112 can do the disc quality scans with 'Opti Drive Control'.

They are still unreadable so your drive is producing low quality burns on the media you're using. Try clearing the drives OPC history via the Advanced Settings feature (or in the eeprom tool) Are your Verbatim discs made in Singapore? They seem more reliable than others made elsewhere - check the packaging, it should say around the barcode area somewhere.

ImgBurn is burning whatever you give it. If you burn a 1.4GB AVI file, it'll still be a 1.4GB AVI once it's on a DVD. If you decide to convert it to a proper DVD Video format and that doesn't output the correct size / misses something, that's down to whichever program you used for the job. So if DVD Flick isn't working for you, try another program.

You missed my point. Uninstalling + reinstalling isn't necessary. ImgBurn is just a single exe. If you've wipe out the settings via the registry key then it's as good as gone. Just run the ImgBurn.exe file again via the normal shortcut and it'll start with fresh (default) settings. If you have a problem with it after that, post the log so we can try to help you. I don't know why the installer is failing but that's an NSIS problem and not an ImgBurn one. Disabling AV doesn't always disable it enough.

It means the disc is unreadable. Post the log if you want actual help.

By selecting the 'Verify' button when you start the program.

It's probably related to whatever antivirus/malware type software you're running. There's no real need/point in uninstalling+reinstalling, just delete the ImgBurn registry key (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ImgBurn) and then run the program as normal - it'll revert to default settings.

It looks like your drive is returning lots of empty sectors when reading the disc back. It's impossible to say if it's a problem with the disc itself or the drive at this point, you'd have to verify the disc in another drive and see if it works ok in that one. Even trying the disc in that same drive would probably do - just to see if it produces the same errors in exactly the same places.

Why are you verifying your new image against the old disc? The two are going to be totally different now in terms of file systems etc. The file data will still be the same though. I'm pretty sure that if you manually override the program's selection of CUE/BIN in the Destination box and pick ISO instead, it'll prompt you and just save the user data from the Mode 2/Form 1 sectors (2048 bytes per sector) rather than the entire thing (2352 bytes per sector), thereby giving you a nice ISO.

I'd expect 'Load' to fail on a laptop drive. You can only eject the tray on those, not load it. If the drive isn't able to recognise/initialise any discs you put in it, yes, it's probably dead. Try cleaning it - you'll have to use the manual method because a cleaning disc won't work!