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It's done so ImgBurn knows the exact size of the decoded file and therefore how long the track (or last track in your case) is. Without it you can just end up with silence / gaps in the music where there shouldn't be any.

What's the CPU % usage at when you're burning? It shouldn't be hard to get 20mb/s from your hdd - especially when it's an image file so something's obviously not right. I assume you've tried defragging? I'd also try removing the old cdrom from the system as these things have been known to slow the bus down compared to modern drives working on their own.

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

What controller is the drive connected to?

Sounds like a drive issue then. Try the drive in another PC to double check. Cleaning the laser might work. Failing that, invest in a new one.

It's not freezing on an I/O command so it must be something else. What's the message in the statusbar? At this point I'm guessing windows isn't allowing the program to open a handle to 'CdRom1' or whatever. Do you actually have multiple drives?

Check on the website / support area (ring them if need be) of whoever made your computer. To clean it, you just use a cd/dvd cleaning disc - this is something you have to buy.

Put an original disc in, does the drive behave itself or do you still get the same message in the status bar?

'checking' and uninstalling/rebooting are two very different things. Is the hdd on the same cable as your new drive? Is the drive set to 'master' and on a decent 80 wire cable?

If your drive won't burn the media there are normally only 3 things you can do: Drive - clean it or replace it Firmware - update it Media - change it

Every drive is different, media that works in one doesn't have to work in another. Which specific model (and firmware version) do you have?

You probably just had a 'problem' file that directshow didn't work for, hence the ACM fallback method kicks in and that had a bug in the version you were running.

Thank you, fixed for next release.

Any of them. There are lots of sites that review drives and offer support on that type of thing. Might I suggest you start your search at cdfreaks.com

If it's just one file, please email it to the address in the program's 'About' box so I can debug it and see what the issue is.

Are they Mitsubishi branded discs? or branded by Verbatim / someone else? (if so, who?) Your drive is getting on a bit now, have you tried cleaning it? Have you tried discs from another spindle incase you have a duff one?

Fareek, make your own thread instead of hijacking other people's please. Don't forget to post your burn log.

There's not, no.

My reply was indeed sarcastic. Sorry, that's just my sense of humour. Update ImgBurn and that problem will cease to exist.

You can't read xbox games with ImgBurn, they're protected against casual copying.

did not help how? Process explorer didn't find anything? Did you search properly? If so, you probably need the hotfix from microsoft as the 'system' process has an issue where it keeps handles open to the drive. You sould put Vista SP1 on too.

Sorry but this is how it's designed to work and nothing will be changed.

Ok, nothing to remove there so it must be some other issue. Try uninstalling the controller entry from the ide/ata/atapi/raid controller branches in device manager and then rebooting.

Yeah but you've just said it's on a jmicron controller...so that's already a 3rd party card. You won't get an intel board with a proper ide port anymore so you're out of luck. Maybe an sata -> ide converter block would do the trick and then just hook it up to an sata port on the ich9r controller.

Your drive is a CD writer, not a DVD one.