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If you're only burning 1 folder (the 'top folder'), you'll get a prompt asking if it represents the root of the disc, simply click No.

Leave AHCI off! Obviously your drive/driver doesn't fully support it.

Get the A304 firmware from the LG website. If that doesn't work, get some different (better) discs. If that doesn't work, get yourself a new drive.

You need to install a 'FLAC' filter for DirectShow. http://www.dsp-worx.de/?n=15

Please copy + paste all the disc info from the panel on the right when you've got a disc in the drive that always burns at max speed.

Chances are that this is just a problem with your machine configuration and will be caused by some other software you've got installed. On a clean XP SP3 install it certainly isn't a problem right clicking any of the 3 shortcuts made by the installer. NSIS is obviously responsible for the shortcut stuff and it'll only be using the standard Windows API function to create them. There are tools you can use to disable nasty shell extensions (that run when you try and bring up any context menu) and some to snoop in on what's actually happening when you right click the shortcut - something like process monitor from sysinternals.

There is nothing to recover. The data isn't unreadable, it's simply not there.

2.4x is the slowest DVD+ (plus) format discs support. Some drives might well exceed 2.4 by a tiny bit, it's nothing to worry about (assuming we're talking about 2.5 or 2.6!). I'm not a fan of laptop drives, no.

Can't you just take the official firmware, run it so it extracts the flasher and firmware file, run the patcher on the firmware + flasher and then flash? I'm sure I didn't resort to using DVRFlash the last time I tried it. With the official flasher you don't have to do anything via CLI, you just run it!

Joliet is handy if you're burning avi / mp3 (as data, not audio) for use in a standalone dvd video player. They tend to not support UDF for anything other than proper DVD Video discs - so if you don't then have Joliet on the disc, it can only use ISO9660 and that's limited (by the specs) to very short file names - typically 8.3 characters (i.e. XXXXXXXX.YYY).

The data content is irrelevant. As mmalves said, the problem here is your media - RITEKF1.

All we have to go on is the error the drive returns - which is 'Write Error'. Going by that error, we can only really assume the drive is having trouble burning to the media. The exact reason for that is anyone's guess.

If it won't work at 2.4x speed either, your best bet is to get an external drive. You could also try contacting acer (or whoever) and asking for a firmware update for the drive. Due to laptop drive having their laser exposed all the time, it might also have gotten dirty. You could try one of those wet and dry (2 brush) cleaning CD's on it.

I can only speak for fellow UK residents... and we can get them from most online places. I use www.svp.co.uk for my stuff. Thinking about it, Verbatim do actually sell some TY dye discs, I believe they're the 'pastel' ones. Plextor do some TY dye discs too.

That status code/message comes from the drive, so it's the thing that thinks there's no disc.

Are you sure the freeze wasn't just the program waiting for you to click the quick/full/cancel button in the box that pops up when you click the 'Erase' button? Maybe the box was hidden (dodgy z-order) and that's why you couldn't see it. Or maybe you did see it, clicked the button and that's when it hung? Really I should disable all the buttons/menu options when it's analysing the files, not just the erase one.

Delete the following: NTIDrvr UBHelper Pfc PxHelp20 Update whatever Elaborate Bytes / Slysoft software you've installed that uses these: ElbyDelay ElbyCDFL Update XP to Service Pack 3. Update your drives firmware.

lol don't do it then.

The only thing that can make the drive error out like that is the drive itself. Only 3 things are involved in the burn quality (or lack of) and that's the drive, its firmware and the media you're using. No software can force it to write to something it doesn't want to, just like no software can make it not write to something it wants to. All ImgBurn is doing is feeding it with a stream of data. The DVD+ (plus) format does not support test write and even if it did, you'll only get write errors when the laser is actually 'ON' and writing. Switching to incremental works sometimes and fails others, all you can do is try it. What I have to make clear however is that you shouldn't *need* to do that if the driver/firmware/media combo were all playing nicely together. btw, you can get Verbatim DVD+R DL's for about

Verbatim media?

Read the audio guide in the Guides forum.

Personally, no. But then I don't use Ricoh DL discs, I use Verbatim. It can happen on any media the drive has problems with. Yes, in the 'Settings' on the 'Write' tab under 'Write Type'.

Just update the firmware anyway! Make sure you try burning at each of the 'supported' write speeds too - i.e. 2.4x and 4x.

If you've got a VIDEO_TS folder (complete with IFO/BUP/VOB files), just follow any one of the numerous DVD Video guides in the 'Guides' forum.

There's nothing to say that Nero can/is even looking for errors in these finalisation stages. Also, it uses the incremental write type and not dao. Sometimes one will work when the other doesn't - it all depends on how the drive is feeling that day. The content of the image has nothing to do with why it's failing. This is purely a drive/firmware/media combo issue.