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It doesn't appear to be stuck on anything, what does the status bar say?

Get yourself a copy of Acronis True Image. ImgBurn is not a hdd backup tool.

The next one looks exactly the same as all the previous versions. If you don't like the interface there are plenty of alternatives.

Ok, Intel Chipset drivers can be found here: http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/inf/ Intel Matrix drivers can be found here: (but only apply if you're in AHCI or RAID modes - they won't do any hard, they just won't install) http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/ The standard dual channel thing is probably a jmicron controller. Drivers for that can be found here: ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/Win2k_xp_Vista/

Delete the controller from the ide / ata / atapi branch within Device manager. Make note of the name of the controller entry first though and let us know what it says - or get a screenshot. You'll probably need either Intel or nvidia drivers as they're the most common chipsets in use these days.

Set ImgBurn back to using the SPTI I/O interface too, ASPI is very outdated.

Go with whatever works for you then.

If you're off the front page I wouldn't ever see it. I'm sure it should be able to write them so I guess you have either a dodgy batch of discs or a dodgy drive.

Did you delete the .dvd file? If so, that was silly.

Have you recently updated your drivers or anything? Windows is returning an error code so it's not even from the drive itself. What controller is your drive attached to?

Yeah but that could just be a media issue. I have an nforce4 board too and it works fine when everything is configured correctly.

I'm amazed that a TYG02 is unreadable, they're all I ever really use and I've never had a single problem with them. Are you sure the surface isn't damaged? Pretty much all you can do is try the disc in every drive you can lay your hands on and hope one of them can read it properly. You might like to slow the read speed down too, sometimes that can help.

Nope.

I think you just hold CTRL down to make it do number 1. The same applies when dragging to the 'Source' box when you're in write mode. Don't forget that the drop zone also works for Build mode so even without number 1, it's unfair to call it useless.

Yes it's being worked on as time and motivation permits.

That depends on if it's running the RAID bios or the 'base' one really. Either way, make sure your motherboard bios is up-to-date as that'll no doubt update the Sil one too.

Back on the main screen in read mode, please copy + paste the disc info from the right hand side when that disc is in the drive. Update the firmware on your drive first though please. You should be on 1.04 now. http://www.sony-optiarc.eu/en/support-serv...-ad-series.html Just scroll down to the 7173 P-ATA model.

I very much doubt it's anything different to opening 10 instances yourself. The chances of you having a storage array that can keep up with 10 parallel accesses to 1 image file are slim to none though so you'd end up burning at about 0.1x speed.

It's a lot easier if you just post the info from the log window, that's what it's there for (please don't close it!).

You should just have 'SONY DVD RW DRU-810A' written in the advanced section, just make sure it's under the BenQ header! Next time you burn, turn on verify. You should also try doing a disc quality / pipo scan on the burnt media in something like DVDInfoPro or CDSpeed.

'TDK' doesn't mean anything, they're not using a 'TDK' dye, they'll be using CMC, RITEK or RICOH... none of which are anywhere near as reliable / good as the Verbatim ones (which use the MKM dye). With 'TDK' you don't actually know what you're getting until you get them home and look at the Media ID (dye). Basically, you're playing Russian Roulette.

Cynthia is correct. I don't recall DVD Decrypter doing a byte level compare so it would never have picked up miscompares, just bad sectors that couldn't physically be read by the drive.

Try using the Silicon Image card and not a VIA one. There aren't many cards that work properly with optical drives and the Silicon Image ones are about the best you'll get - but you need to have flashed them with the 'base' bios.

Is your Sil card running the latest base bios? If not, why? That's the one meant for optical drives, not the RAID bios. I never had any problem with my 216 running on a Sil 3512 (which is basically the same thing). So anyway, you've got drivers issues somewhere along the line, the patin couffin ones are just low level enough to bypass the issue I guess. It's not really a fix though to use them, more just a workaround. The logs you provided just show you burning rubbish media - RITEK-S04-66. Do you have any where you've been burning decent stuff and it's failed?

You can get pen drives for a couple of quid here, I'm sure they're even cheaper in the US. You'll have to google for a bootable disc image that loads cdrom drivers. Use the image as the boot image and add the flasher + firmware to the cd as normal data. Without physically doing it myself and giving you the image, that's about the best advice I can give you.