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I take it you've no way of connecting the drive via the proper sata connector? It could just be down to the way it's hooked up to your machine. It's getting stuck processing I/O requests... that's why the write rate drops to 0. The program is just waiting for your machine to respond and return control to it.

Can you post the log of you burning and verifying the disc please?

The DVD+R DL and DVD+R look like they've already been burnt. Being as they're 'Write Once, Read Many' (and 'closed') media, that's them done - you can't erase them and write to them again. The DVD+RW is rewritable, hence why that works. The DVD-R DL looks empty and that's why that works.

Do all three say exactly the same in that box? Power down the PC, turn it on again and repeat the process. Same results? Try other discs.

Can you go into Write mode and copy + paste what it says in the disc info box on the right please?

This isn't related to the burning stage, it'll be down to how your files were created and authored into a proper DVD video compliant set of folders/files.

No. It closes the threads down when it's closed though and that's why you're seeing that message. Normally it would do the update check and terminate within a few seconds of opening the program, but yours got stuck for some reason.

Yes, it's just a check for program updates and yes, it's initiated at launch. It won't be related to your drive swap, it'll just be due to a connectivity issue or firewall.

Like I said, no, it doesn't.

Do you mean the Verify function? That just asks the drive to read the sectors on the disc to make sure that it can. As for pie/pif/jitter... No, it doesn't perform those types of scans.

This is a forum for ImgBurn support. I do not want you making multiple accounts in an attempt to disguise yourself, you stick out like a sore thumb. I do not want you posting anything on here about disc quality, longevity, temperature issues, sunlight issues etc. We do not have the answers you're looking for. You ask the same questions (over and over again) on several forums and never actually accept what the people respond with - so you're basically just wasting everyone's time, including your own. So until you actually have an issue with ImgBurn itself, please just try and stick with the posts you've put on other forums. i.e. here - http://club.myce.com/f33/questions-files-burned-verbatim-medias-342446/

You have no issue with ImgBurn. Please keep your issues with the life of discs to the myce forums or anywhere else that hasn't already banned your multiple accounts.

Open it in notepad and have a look at it. If there's a problem, send it to me if please.

What's on the download page matches the ImgBurn.com direct mirror. The files from all the other mirrors are identical... apart from a few name changes here and there (I guess the webmasters have their own reasons for having done that). Their CRC32/MD5/SHA-1 should be: CRC32: 1AF3CD36 MD5: 4BF2B8F4B46385BFDA4D65E423CFB868 SHA-1: 6A3D20796E1FCD4169D5D339AF6E491DCEA3367C If you download something weird because you've clicked an advert rather than the real download link on the mirror, that's out of my / their control.

It's probably an advert. The real link is in the right column of the box detailing the download.

Overburning really isn't my thing, I'm afraid I can't provide you with any help beyond what I've already given.

I seem to recall some old Plextor drives needed the 'DVD+R Reserve Track' option enabled before they'd overburn DVD+R discs. It's easier to just stick with burning to the appropriately sized discs for what you're burning. If it won't fit on a single layer disc and you can't shrink it down a bit more, burn to a double layer. Overburning is asking for trouble as error rates always rise towards the outer edge... especially when going beyond what they're designed for.

The trouble with your issue is that once the dialog box has been 'shown', ImgBurn isn't doing anything. I 'show' the box and the program then just sits waiting for Windows to return control to it. Your issue could be related to a 3rd party shell extension of some sort... I'm afraid I've no way of knowing what's happening or why. If Windows creates some sort of crash dump whilst it's looking for a 'solution', maybe I could run that via windbg and examine it to see if it reveals the actual cause. Failing that, see if you can get a bit more info on it by going into Action Center and look at 'check for solutions' / 'view problems to report'. Find your ImgBurn crashes in the list and view the technical details.

It doesn't appear to even invoke the program's exception handing feature, you're just seeing the default Windows one. Is it just the folder picker box that makes it crash or does the file picker box do the same?

It's due to whatever that 'hp virtual cd' is. Nothing to worry about though, just ignore it - or remove that device.

I very much doubt overburning a DVD+RW would work. They're formatted and end up with a track of a specific size. Use a DVD+R instead.

That's certainly not being loaded directly by me. It's probably just used by something Windows API related.

There's no driver, just an exe. It calls 'loadlibrary' on several dll files in order to dynamically access various api functions (thus maintaining support for old OS's). Is that what you mean?

Your drive vanished from the system. Bad cable / connection?

That's true, but the OS also just reports itself as Windows 8 unless specific things are done with the manifest embedded in ImgBurn.exe. It was Microsoft's idea as a method of making the OS more backwards compatible.