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It should take a fraction of a second. If your source files are ok it should work fine... so my guess is that they're not. Of course that doesn't explain why it's stuck like that.

It installs a filter driver, so yeah, maybe.

They're standard Windows dialog boxes, if they hang then you have a problem with the drives on your PC. It's not part of ImgBurn's code that's causing it.

What does the 'Supported Write Speeds' text on the right in the disc info panel say? If it lists a speed above 2x, you have DMA problems, please refer to the FAQ.

Because they're junk.

This is drive thing, if the drive doesn't support 2.4x on the media you're using then you can't force it burn at that speed. Just look at the 'Supported Write Speeds' info in the panel on the right.

Update ImgBurn. If your drive doesn't support the booktype commands at the moment you'll need to find a firmware that does.

They might be fine in that drive, just not yours. That still doesn't really help you though.

You're using XP yeah? It doesn't understand UDF 2.5 or 2.6. (Bluray etc should be 2.5 btw) You need to install the toshiba filter driver to correct that or upgrade to Vista.

Nope.

Try some newer drivers. http://www.nvidia.com/page/uli_drivers.html

Yeah, you need to be using 2.4.2.0 and disable the automatic retries to close the disc.

You could also read the readme file.

'Storage Controllers' then, sorry, MS renamed it.

What controller do you have on your board? Look in device manager and tell us what it says under the IDE/ATA controller branch and also under the SCSI one. I see you haven't done Vista SP1 yet either.

Your drive doesn't support that media. Read the pinned topic here.... http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

You can't.

Out of the 30 you've burnt, have they all been from that exact same spindle of 'MCC 03RG20' discs? If the drive has a write strategy for 'MCC 03RG20' in the firmware (which I'm positive it will have), it'll be geared for Verbatim MCC 03RG20 discs. If yours are by some other brand then they might not be exactly equal and so strategy will be wrong - hence why it can't burn them. All you can do is try some other discs. As recommended above, buy some Verbatim DVD+R's or some Taiyo Yuden DVD-R's (I like the 8x TYG02 ones myself).

What's the brand name stamped on those MCC DVD-R discs? Personally I prefer the Verbatim DVD+R discs to the DVD-R ones. If I want DVD-R I always buy Taiyo Yuden.

Nope. You run the program and it'll located the drive + bring up a warning box telling you to remove and disc from the drive and click 'yes'. Then you hit the update button and let it do its thing. If you're not seeing that then make sure you've downloaded the file properly - that said, the RAR wouldn't extract if you hadn't. It could then be down to your drive showing up as 'RAID'. It might be blocking certain commands that the flasher uses, hence why you don't use optical drives on those types of controller.

They're using the Verbatim MCC dye even if they're not genuine verbs - that could of course be a problem in itself. Have you tried burning at 8x or 12x? Slower doesn't always equal better.

It's probably under Integrated Peripherals. Whatever you have to change will no doubt have the word 'Controller' in it somewhere. Update the firmware on the drive too. Perhaps update so SP1 of Vista too.

Is the drive's firmware up-to-date?

open imgburn, click the help menu at the top, click imgburn logs. If the drive is saying there's no disc in it (and there is) then you're using media the drive doesn't support.

You don't have a DVD burner.