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If you backup the filter driver registry keys you can undo it again, but you'd have to know where they are to be able to do that. If safe mode doesn't work, there's probably no point in it. I'm fairly sure the OS wouldn't be using them in safemode. At this point, I've no idea what the issue is. Normally I'd say to change the cable or something but of course you can't do that if it's a laptop drive! How about trying to burn from bootable CD? You could use a Linux Live CD (with Wine and ImgBurn installed), or try something like Hiren's Boot CD (which will boot you into a basic Windows XP).

Burning cheapo media doesn't always work out under normal circumstances, let alone when you're trying to overburn it. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

If you burnt a DVD Video image or DVD Video files, sure, it should play in a DVD player. If you didn't do either of those, no, it won't play in a DVD player unless that DVD player supports the format of the file(s) you burnt. If you want to convert your files into DVD Video format you'll have to use something like DVD Flick or ConvertXtoDVD.

They're system wide filters. If you burn with lots of other apps, it *could* stop them working. Ok so try this instead... boot into safe mode and then try burning again. If it works, your issue is probably due to one or more of those filter drivers.

You shouldn't be editing anything if it was only DVD-5 in the first place. Setting the 'SPLIP' flag (what ifoedit may call the 'layer break') to 1 on a cell that isn't actually seamless could mess things up.

Try the faster supported speeds. You may have more luck with your drive/firmware/media combo at 4x or 6x. If it keeps failing, get yourself a decent non-slimline drive. (slimline drives are rubbish)

Wow, that's the longest filter drive list I've ever seen! Personally, I'd remove them all but 'redbook' and 'imapi'.

Open up regedit and search for whatever you're seeing in the context menu - i.e. 'Read using ImgBurn'. Don't just delete what you find the instant you find it, make a note of the key it was found under first and let us know via your next reply. If I can improve the uinstaller (perhaps to clear-up after older versions of the app too), I will do. (@eSkRo, sorry, I've hidden your post as I'd prefer useful feedback on the location of these rogue registry entries) I think the problem key will be 'HKCR\DVD\shell\Read using ImgBurn'. This was replaced by 'HKCR\DVD\shell\open.ImgBurn' in newer versions and that's the one it would remove upon uninstall.

You should put the verify speed back on MAX, there's no point in artificially limiting it. If there's a problem reading at max speed, you'd *want* to know about it (even if it works at 8x ok). The burn and verify were both successful. So in your burner at least, there's nothing wrong with the disc. If your wii has a problem with it, maybe that's its problem (or a problem with what you're burning).

Copy + paste the filter driver info too please. You can find the filter driver feature in the Tools menu.

Then you either need decent discs (the whole point of that thread) or another drive.

The thread I linked you to tells you some things you can try.

It would appear they don't work in your new drive, no. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

As I hinted in my previous post, you'll have to extract the contents of each disc image and combine them using the appropriate software. It all depends on what the disc images actually contain as to how easy/hard that will be.

Apart from spelling things incorrectly, I don't know. What problem do you think you're having? The disc appears to have burnt successfully. I can't tell if it's actually readable because you've turned off the 'Verify' option. Let me refer you to this... http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=12200

Your drive isn't initialising the disc properly. If it's just discs from a new spindle, try another spindle. You could also try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc.

If they verify ok, you could probably just live with it. I don't see how your format has anything to do with it. Formatting doesn't change the internals of the drive and all the program does is send data to the drive. Once that data is in the drive's internal buffer, your machine, OS etc are out of the equation.

'CMC MAG-M01-00' are just a common/cheapo dye sold by loads of different 'brand' names. You'd have more luck (and better burns) if you started to use some decent disc by the likes of Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden.

You haven't shown us a log (once back on SPTI) yet, so how would we know? Do a full burn+verify and then copy+paste *all* the lines from the log window. Don't post a screenshot.

It looks like your drive failed to burn the disc properly or failed to reinitialise the disc properly - I wouldn't ignore either of those issues. Notice that before you got the miscompare errors it said the disc layout didn't match. The layout mismatch is what then caused the miscompares - because the program is making up the data that doesn't appear to be on the disc. Try the 1.02 firmware update for your drive and try the other supported write speeds (start with 8x). 4x might not be the speed that produces the best quality burn. http://www.firmwarehq.com/NEC/ND-4571A/files.html It might be worth cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc too - it's getting on a bit now.

Just snap it to it.

With that card, I doubt it. It should work fine on a PCI card using a Silicon Image chipset (flashed with the 'base' bios) if that's any use to you?

Optical drives don't normally work very well on 3rd party controller cards - especially if they're running in RAID mode. So yeah, try and get the drive off it if possible. Do you really only have 2 onboard SATA ports? That's a little odd for a machine running Windows 7.

What controller is the drive attached to? Right click the drive selection box and select 'Family Tree'. Close the prompt and then copy + paste the family tree lines from the log window. You should install SP1 for Windows 7.