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You might have been using that *brand* of disc but I doubt it was always the same dye (CMC MAG-D04-00) - and it's the dye that's important. Of course maybe it's just wear and tear on the drive? They're only

The 'brand' doesn't mean anything, it's the dye that's important. Those are using 'CMC MAG-D02-00' dye and there's nothing to say the previous 30 disc were the same one.

Other programs can mess up the 'formatted' status of the disc, ImgBurn does not. (Check the disc info panel on the right of the main window) When you've formatted it once you shouldn't ever need to do it again. DVD+RW supports direct overwrite and that's what ImgBurn will use on a properly formatted DVD+RW.

You're attempting to burn 12gb onto a 4.37gb disc.

The speed looks ok but your CPU usage is high. Are you running quite an old / slow machine?

Oh ok, you know best. We'll just keep telling you what to do to improve your system and you can just keep ignoring it. Happy burning!

The drive must be on the jmicron controller as the 965 chipset doesn't have an IDE port. You need to make sure you're running the latest motherboard bios first and then installed the latest driver from here: ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/Win2k_xp_Vista/

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.