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Your boot disc has to load cdrom drivers that then enable you to access that portion of the disc - oh and of course the disc will need to have been recorded using a file system that's accessible from DOS (ISO9660/Joliet).

You can't change the file system of an existing ISO, no. What you could do though is extract the contents of the ISO to a folder somewhere (or mount it as a virtual drive) and then make a new ISO with whatever file system selection you like.

Sorry, are you saying that for all the times it says 'Cycling tray before verify', it NEVER actually ejects the tray? That can't be good! There's an updated firmware available for your drive - http://www.firmwarehq.com/Pioneer/DVR-216D/files.html The discs you're using aren't the best in the world and burning them at MAX speed probably isn't helping. Try dropping the write speed down to something like 8x. If that doesn't work, you're with the other troubleshooting options of... 1. cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc. 2. buying decent discs (Taiyo Yuden / Verbatim) 3. Buying a new drive.

As per the thread I linked you to, you should try all of the speeds the drive says it supports on those discs. If none of them work then you need to try some of the Verbatim discs and see how the drive works with those. The alternative is to buy an external drive (a normal desktop sized drive in a generic 5.25 enclosure is probably best) and try burning them in that instead.

The drive probably does it automatically and the software can't change the setting itself. The only way you'd get it to work nicely is to crossflash to a LiteOn firmware.

Those CDA files don't really exist. It's just how windows displays audio discs. Each one is basically a virtual link to the raw data on the disc but their size is in no way related to the actual size/length of the track.

Cheap or expensive, it really doesn't matter. If they aren't using the MKM-001-00 or MKM-003-00 MID/dye then they aren't the recommended discs.

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

Use the current version of ImgBurn please. The discs you're using there aren't the same ones you were using before. 'MKM-003-00' Vs 'CMC MAG-D03-64'

I should say so, yes.

If the drive reports a disc as a DVD-ROM, it's just going to reject any commands to do with writing or erasing. All that stuff is programmed into the firmware, it's not possible for software to override it. So if you've now written to an identical DVD+RW disc, does it still show up as a DVD+RW when you insert it back in the drive? If the other (broken) one still shows up as DVD-ROM when the other shows DVD+RW just fine, write it off and forget about it.

ImgBurn is for optical drives, not flash/hard drives.

So you're saying that when you insert a CD Audio discs, nothing actually happens automatically - right? Typically, Windows would pop up the 'AutoPlay' box like this... When you then right click the drive in Explorer, what do you see on the context menu? Try and capture a screenshot of it. Like I said before (in a round about way), this is nothing to do with your typical music file extensions. You're barking up the wrong tree with that. For Audio CD's, the registry key to look at is HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AudioCD ImgBurn will add itself as an option (open.ImgBurn) under the 'shell' subkey (as per the settings within ImgBurn itself) but doing that doesn't make it the default option, just *an* option. The default option is controlled by the '(default)' value in the 'shell' key. So if it was set to 'open.ImgBurn', *then* it would be the default option. You can set that '(default)' value to any of the options listed under the 'shell' key. I guess it would make sense to set it to 'play'. That should invoke Windows Media Player - or at least it does on my machine.

The 'RAID' bit is just what the VIA card drivers are reporting. It doesn't really mean anything but it can give an indication that the drive isn't connected to an optimal controller - optical drives don't like operating on a RAID card (commands get blocked etc). It shouldn't have anything to do with why your drive isn't producing readable discs or why it's taking forever to perform certain tasks.

Oh good, I'm glad you figured that out... I forgot to mention it in the email

This is not ImgBurn's doing, it's Windows. All you (probably) need to do is configure the AutoPlay settings in Control Panel. .cda is a fake file type. There are no real files on a CD Audio (CDDA) disc.

Most other Samsung drives (in fact, most drives full stop) use a different firmware naming scheme for OEM drives. Like you might have SB00 and ST00 or something. It avoids confusion and nobody could be blamed for thinking SB01 should/would update a drive running SB00. No SATA ports and you're running Windows 7 on it?! That's a weird hardware/software combination! Anyway, back to your original problem... all you're left with is changing the write speed and hoping the drive does a better job. If it doesn't, write it off and get yourself another one. A drive that can't burn the best DL media available isn't really worth keeping. (This is of course assuming your discs aren't to blame - perhaps try some discs from another spindle of Verbatims)

That's weird. Logically, SB01 follows on from SB00. Not according to that log it isn't. Can you put the drive on a proper controller (motherboard one) rather than through the VIA card? I didn't expect it to solve this issue, it just needed doing anyway.

Is it just the 'I/O Error' box that you have to cancel out of? If so, I've fixed this now. It'll auto abort a read operation based on the value of the option in the settings (Auto 'Abort' On Error).

There's a firmware update available for the drive. http://www.firmwarehq.com/Samsung/SH-222AB/files.html 2.4x isn't a valid speed for that drive/firmware/media combo so it's using 4x. That might not be the optimal speed so if the firmware alone doesn't fix it, try using the remaining supported write speeds. Service pack 1 is out for Windows 7 now. Your controller drivers are preventing the booktype command from working - look at installing updated/better ones.

That disc looks like a DVD-ROM. Have you got DAEMON Tools or Alcohol 120% installed at all? Both those apps have the ability to make a rewritable disc look like a DVD-ROM disc. You have to turn a setting off in them to fix it.

You can't 'burn' to a hard drive, that's the wrong term to use. An ISO is an image of the disc. It's the only thing you can... in your terms... 'burn' to a hard drive. Saying you don't want to store the ISO makes no sense to me. If you don't want the ISO itself you must just be talking about copying the files off the disc - in which case you can just drag and drop via Explorer.

When you put the disc in the drive and switch to Write mode, what does the program list in the box on the right? Is it just blank (apart from the top 2 lines) ? If so, what message do you see in the status bar? If the drive can't initialise the disc (whereby the box mentioned above will be blank), no software can interact with it. The version of ImgBurn you're using is of no importance and will make no difference.

Why is it that I keep seeing ImgBurn (or IMGBurn as they've put it) mentioned in the release notes these people post up and yet I never actually get to see (ahead of time) what works properly and what doesn't?! Whilst I might not agree with what some people will use it for, it's still an interesting development/advancement in the technology I work with and am interested in.

I hope you mean the + ones. DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL are two different beasts