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Do any error codes actually get returned for you? I've just tried with the following in a batch file and it printed out the number '1' as expected. (1 meaning no media in the drive or drive not ready) @echo off imgburn /mode isowrite /start /close echo %errorlevel% pausebtw, /overwrite and /noimagedetails don't apply to write mode.

What you've read wasn't a lie, you'll get errorlevel 3 when verify is unsuccessful. That value is only set when you've specified /start and /close as CLI parameters though.

I'm not seeing that on the DD mirror. Perhaps you clicked an advert? The actual download button is in the green box on the right... just above the Facebook widget.

Try writing at the various speeds your drive claims to support. Some may work where others fail. You could also try enabling the 'Perform OPC Before Write' option in the Settings on the Write tab. Try other discs... clean the drive with a cleaning disc... replace the drive etc. etc. Oh and you can't erase DVD-R discs, they're 'write once' media. That's why that bit didn't work.

That absolutely shouldn't be possible... to have a bad ISO I mean... to the point where the drive fails to burn it. Data is just data, the drive doesn't know or care, it's just 1's and 0's.

Post the whole log please.

It'll be down to your specific drive. You'd have to take a look at its spec sheet and see what it does on each type of disc.

That's nothing to do with the speed it's burning. Bad burns/discs are bad burns/discs. You stand a better chance of things being 'ok' if the drive's defect management is active. Of course you're then stuck with slower burns and slightly less available disc space.

Nothing has been 'capped', it (Roxio) probably enabled defect management by (re)formatting with spare areas, so your drive is verifying as it burns and getting around any problem areas on the disc, remapping them to the 'spare area'.

Yes

I'd imagine the drive would simply error out at the end.

There's no layerbreak selection stuff for anything in the AUDIO_TS folder and it would only pop up for the VIDEO_TS side of things if the VIDEO_TS folder was going to span the layer break... so I'm guessing it's not going to.

Assuming you've tried 8x on those too, try enabling the 'perform opc before write' option and burn another one. If your drive still can't produce a working disc, clean / replace the drive.

If you opted out of installing any 3rd party software you were offered by the installer, it wouldn't have installed anything apart from ImgBurn. I don't know what the installer will offer you, but the offers are usually on a single 'page' of the wizard. Of course you could have downloaded from any of the other mirrors and not had any offers at all.

That's correct, you shouldn't be able to eject the disc during the actual burn phase. If you want to eject it during the verify operation and reinsert it, that's entirely your choice. If you're doing it to check for dust though, you're probably too late - the burning phase has already happened and any 'damage' (by the dust being there) may have already been done.

The drive reported a 'write error' (of sorts), so I guess it doesn't like the discs you're attempting to use.

If you simply delete these keys, it'll load up with the defaults next time. "LogWindow" "LogWindowOpen" "LogWindowSnapped" "LogWindowState" It doesn't make a taskbar button for the log window... or any of the other windows.

As far as I can tell, the log window wasn't enabled and it had been minimised. So I enabled it via the 'View' menu and then found it down the bottom left corner of my screen and restored it.

Can you export your settings via regedit please and upload them for me to examine? They're in hkey_current_user\software\imgburn Oh... make sure the app is closed first - so they're up to date.

Just in case you are, make sure you don't try and reuse those failed discs. Perhaps try enabling the 'Perform OPC Before Write' option in the settings and give it another go. If it still fails, you'll have to try some different discs. There's a firmware update available for your drive btw. http://www.firmwarehq.com/Samsung/SH-222BB/files.html

Your drive has reported a 'write error', so it doesn't appear to like the discs very much. You could try setting the write speed to 16x rather than MAX (48x) though.

Yeah, that's not exactly taking an image of your existing USB stick, it's just building a bootable ISO based on its contents. Optical discs and USB sticks / hdds use different file systems. I wasn't sure if yours needed to be kept in FAT/NTFS type format - as would have been found on the USB stick.

I've no way of knowing without seeing the actual error. Boot into safe mode and try again. See if you get the same errors.

ImgBurn tells you the 'MID' in the disc info box on the right. Pop one in the drive and switch to Write mode.

'Incorrect Function' is a windows error message. It looks like it's blocking the 'write' commands or masking the real error code the drive is returning.