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It looks like you opened a wav file there - going by the 'source' box?

That FAQ entry is nothing to do with what's going on here. You should set it back to Automatic if it's not on that now. Can you burn single layer discs ok or is the drive now useless for both? Maybe you damaged it during the move to/from your friends house.

open a flac file in graphedit, if it loads the dc-bass source filter then that's the one ImgBurn will be using too.

They're not supposed to play ISO images, they play the content of it. Once the ISO has been burnt to a disc it ceases to be an ISO image. i.e. ISO image containing a VIDEO_TS folder becomes a disc containing a VIDEO_TS folder once it has been burnt. It appears to me that you don't quite understand that whole concept. You've been thrown off course by the muppet that made an ISO containing the AVI files. That's just not how things are supposed to be packaged up - because it throws people for six and unless you've got a DivX capable player the disc wouldn't work. The AVI's should have just been compressed into a zip or rar file.

It is indeed useless until rpc1.org gets fixed properly. Google is useful too though, just search for 'UJ-841S firmware' or something similar. As that's a laptop drive you should just go to the website of whoever made it and download the one for your model of laptop.

Correct, Windows XP's built-in burning only supports CDs. DVD burning is new in Vista.

Opening in WinRAR etc is the same as mounting the image in DAEMON Tools and browsing the virtual drive, or burning to a disc and browsing the disc. All of those methods let you see the content of the ISO. Where had you been reading about ISO files in the first place?! They seem to have got you in a right muddle. The whole point is that you shouldn't need to convert anything that's in an ISO. It's already going to be in the format it's supposed to be. You wouldn't (normally) get an AVI file in an ISO (hence no need to extract the AVI, convert to DVD Video and then burn), you'd only get a playable DVD Video ISO (i.e. with a VIDEO_TS folder and IFO/BUP/VOB files).

Pioneer drives perform automatic booktype setting (on DVD+R DL at least). There is nothing that a piece of software can configure with Pioneer drives. If you want bitsetting on DVD+R too, you need to create a patched firmware and flash the drive with it.

We'll just wait for the full burn+verify log.

What files (type of file) does 'cyberlink powerdirector express' actually output? What are their names?

You are aware that ImgBurn isn't writing any of the subchannel yeah? It's burning using SAO (rather than RAW) and 2048 or 2352 bytes per sector. If you're seeing problems then are they not coming from the drive itself that burnt the disc? If of course you can see that I'm doing something wrong with the 'send cuesheet' command, by all means tell me what I can do to fix it!

Eh? You burn the ISO in 'Write' mode... that's all you have to do. (Assuming the ISO was created properly in the first place) Then just close ImgBurn, open 'My Computer' and open up the drive you just burnt to. If opening (double clicking) on the drive doesn't open it as a standard folder (i.e. where you can see the files it contains in a normal explorer window), right click it instead and choose 'Open' off the context menu. When you've done that and can see which files are on the disc, tell us what you see. Take a screenshot if you don't want to type out the names. The ISO is not burnt as a file, each 2048 byes of the file represents a sector on the disc. So I guess in that sense, no you can 'view' an ISO. Once burnt in 'Write' mode (or mounted in a virtual drive program) you'll be able to 'view' whatever files it contained though.

Because you've probably Read the disc and had the option ticked to add it to the Write queue. Hence the new image on your hdd (created via Read mode) is now in the queue for burning in Write mode. It's just a little warning/note to the user, if you have no intention of burning it now then you can continue by telling the program not to worry about the queued images.

Double layer discs are pretty cheap now, can't you just burn it to one of those? DVD Shrink will make is smaller if you still want to go that route. You'll still need to mount it in DAEMON Tools first though because DVD Shrink doesn't support *.gi files, only VIDEO_TS folders, real/virtual drives, ISO's and MDS's.

The reserve track error will be due to you trying to overburn 18gb onto a 4.37gb disc - i.e. it's expected. As mmalves said, ImgBurn doesn't span discs, use a proper backup tool or split the photos into folders @ ~4.3gb in size.

I'm not actually sure I'm writing any lead-out. For a simple image, the only bit of 'not taken from the data file' data I write is the 150 sector pregap.

It might come along frequently if you get your images from dodgy channels made by people with strange ideas on how to package things up. No legit stuff would ever use MagicISO.

Sorry, I have no interest in such file types.

Check that you don't have 'Include Archive Files Only' checked on the 'Options' tab.

101 and you don't look a day over 100! All the best

See now this is the other thing I find a bit weird, 32x is the fastest CD-RW you can get. They'd have 'ultra speed' / 'ultra speed+' stamped all over them. I've only ever used Verbatim CD-RW's though. What speed are those discs you're using actually supposed to be?

That log didn't actually include anything about the erase process, nor did the one you posted earlier. If you haven't already done an uninstall / reinstall, try turning off the 'Perform OPC Before Write' option in the settings on the Write tab. 2.4.1.0 defaults to it being off and your log still shows it's on. There's just nothing that I can do in my code to make a disc look like anything other than what it really is.... that's to say, I couldn't make the issue you're having happen even if I wanted to. Do you have access to any other drives? Do they also see this disc as a CD-ROM now? If I thought it would do any good I'd dig my 112 out the cupboard and run some tests.

Did you actually try the erase command within ImgBurn? Please post the log as it might give us some clues. Also, which specific brand / version of 4x rewritable media are you using? What's the exact text on the discs case?

That's perfectly normal, ImgBurn always closes/finalises the discs. Closed doesn't mean it cannot be erased. If the quick/full format commands work in ImgBurn then it's deffo not the drive that thinks it's a CD-ROM, it's some other software messing with the responses.

It's pretty simple, you add the files/folders you want in the ISO to the 'Source' box, type in a file name for the 'Destination' box and then click the 'Build' button. Where exactly are you going wrong with that? Are you seeing an error message? If so, what does it say?