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It can’t pluck the info out of thin air. The choices are... 1. Read it from tags in the file 2. Use the file name 3. Use what you type in

Did you say your new ‘black’ drive is slower than your old ‘blue’ one? That definitely shouldn’t be the case. The blacks are superior to the blue models in every way. Have you done any transfer rate tests on it? It shouldn’t be struggling to stream enough data for a 16x verify operation. Of course if the drive is being accessed by other stuff, that could explain why it can’t cope. Hdds are no good at random access really. I have my pc connected to a ups... no issues to note.

No, but you said you copied the files using your brother's PC. So instead of copying the files on his, you should have tried to make an image. In any case, it would seem you're out of luck and the copy protection would kick in either way.

You should have used ImgBurn to make an image from the original disc, not from the files you'd copied to a USB stick. Is this a game cd? It could be copy protected and that's why it's not working now.

How big is the file? What if you change the file extension to .ISO ?

Edit the single layer media size to something that won't require it to prompt for one. It's on the 'Advanced' -> 'Media' tab.

Your drive reported a 'Write Error'. That's why the burn failed. Just try again. If your drive often fails to burn those discs at MAX speed, try slowing the write speed down a bit (maybe to 16x) and/or getting some different discs.

It isn't really possible to say. It could be the drive or it could be the disc. That said, if the disc were at fault, the drive still shouldn't be behaving like that. It should work or error out and clearly yours isn't doing either of those.

Your drive is still reporting it’s in progress. I guess it’s safe to assume it got stuck. Turn your machine off and on again.

All DL discs we buy are OTP, yes. Retails can be both, but not writable ones. I don't suppose Track Path really applies to single layer ones as you're only walking over the disc in one direction anyway (inner to outer).

Nope, I’m pretty sure I never added anything like that. It’s quite trivial to add it though.

The 'invalid or unsupported image file' message comes up when you're in Write mode and attempt to burn something that isn't a disc image file. Write mode is not for burning your average mp4, avi, mkv etc files. It's for burning disc image files - iso, img, bin etc. Sounds like 'user error' to me.

The drivers are just the ones I got from here - https://www.primera.com/developersupport Of course, they might be older than what's available directly from that site now... the guide was written ages ago. If they find your autoloader, you should be fine. I don't know which exact models they support.

I have no clue. It works with whatever their drivers (the dlls) work with.

Yeah so I guess the cover art is what made the system try and use the sonic hd demuxer filter (built in filters couldn't handle the cover art) and that same filter is probably what caused the issue with it not actually processing the file/data. Glad you found a workaround.

The fact that the sonic hd demuxer was being used by DirectShow makes me think there is something the system doesn’t like about them. Take a copy of a problem file and totally remove the tag. Then see if you get the same filter list / it works correctly.

Right click one of the problem files once you've added it within the 'Create CUE File' feature/window. Pick the option to display the directshow filter list (if it lets you) and let me know what it says please. There must just be something weird in the file that your filters can't cope with. Removing the (ID3 etc) tags sometimes solves issues like this.

It’ll work with both formats. It’s only reading and writing discs, they’re all pretty similar.

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Yes

If you have a problem, please post the log.

It looks like the crash is coming from within the PTRobot driver itself. Keep yours safe, but you could try the newer PTRobot v1.8.1 drivers available here: https://www.primera.com/developersupport Is the 'assistant' you mentioned earlier something trying to deal with the crash?

Press F8 and then do Tools -> 'Search for SCSI/ATAPI devices' again manually. Post the log from that please, it may contain something a bit more useful.

Oh, the files are already on the disc.... I'm afraid the answer is still no. There is no file level copy operation feature, it'll only read the disc sector by sector in its entirety. You can still just mount the ISO and gain access to all of those files, or open the ISO in something like 7zip / WinRAR to 'extract' them from it. The ISO is just like a box really... with other things in it.