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laser cleaning If you happen to have another hdd could you throw in the machine quickly and do a nice fresh install of XP or something, the might be worth doing too. It all depends on how much time you want to spend on 'trying' to get it working / testing it.

You'd have to try the drive in another pc to know for sure. Personally I'd go for the 'clean' before spending money though.

Weird, your drive must still be responding or ImgBurn wouldn't have been able to 'Abort'. So really the drive is just getting hung up processing the write command, but not enough to stop it from responding with the usual 'I'm still busy burning' message as ImgBurn tries to send it more data to burn.

Convert them with DVD Flick or ConvertXtoDVD, then burn.

If it won't burn Verbatims, you should probably consider that your drive might be faulty.

If you create the ini at the same time as loading with /PORTABLE it should default to having the paths in the same folder as the exe. So you'd delete ImgBurn.ini, then run: ImgBurn.exe /PORTABLE /SETTINGS "ImgBurn.ini" Close it down, open ImgBurn.ini and add the 'PortableMode=1' line down the bottom.

Segoe UI is default on Vista. I've looked at the code and the only change I made to the function that determins which font should be used as the default one by all the forum is pretty much the same as it's been for over a year. I say 'pretty much' because it's is slightly different now if you're running an OS dating back to before v5.0 (v5.0 = Windows 2000 so anything before it would be Win 9x, Me and NT) On XP and Vista there's no difference. When the program picks which font to use, it calls with SystemParametersInfo ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724947.aspx ) with 'uiAction' set to 'NONCLIENTMETRICS' ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724506(VS.85).aspx ). Assuming that call succeeds, it then uses the font names from (and in this order): lfMessageFont lfStatusFont lfMenuFont 'lfMessageFont' is supposed to be the one used by message boxes etc. If you want more info on what's happening, open HKCU\Software\ImgBurn in RegEdit, find 'GENERAL_ProgramDebugMode' and change it to 1. Now run the program, look in the log window and copy+paste everything you see. You should notice that it tells you which font was selected etc and it'll give us a clue about which function / value is actually being used to set it.

If you read the log you'll see that it 'writes' things before it 'verifies' them.

It's a command line tool. Do you know how to use the command prompt?

It's the same thing really but I'm not sure if that 'retail' firmware will work on your (what looks to be OEM) drive. What machine is that drive in? (who made it?)

There's not much you can do if it just doesn't like the discs you're using. btw, 2.4.4.0 is out now.

Thanks, it's now live on the website.

Actually, if you formatted that BD-RE without spare areas it would probably fit. EDIT: Damn, no it wouldn't Close but no cigar.

Thanks, this is now live on the website.

You already can.

lol

Seriously, SP1?! Update Windows to SP3 Update your drives firmware to 1.03 - http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/GSA-H54N/files.html Burn faster. Those are 8x discs and your drive probably likes burning them faster rather than slower - that's why it can even overspeed them to 10x.

If you're backing up data for long term storage, why do you need multisession / floppy disc type access to what's on the discs?

Auto doesn't exist, it means 'AWS' and if you don't configure the AWS feature it just burns at MAX speed.

I believe you need packet writing software for that kind of thing... and everyone knows packet writing sucks! Do as mmalves said and get yourself a usb pen. At least it'll be readable everywhere then. Another option is an external 2.5" hdd.

Hard to say, it could just be a driver issue.

A different 'Write Type'. (Read the MMC specs if you really want to know the details) Just give it a try. It it works, hooray! If it doesn't, you're no worse off.

Can you also please copy + paste what you see in the 'Filter Driver Load Order' feature (on the Tools menu). You could try changing the 'Write Type' to 'Incremental' in the Settings, that sometimes works on messed up drives like yours.

Ah sorry, I missed/misread that and thought it was a BD-R

ok and what does it say in the statusbar? Does it make a difference if you have a disc in the drive or not?