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Have you already tried those drives in another PC? Get confirmation that they work in another machine using the exact same media and then take it from there.

You do realise this forum is specifically for ImgBurn yeah? As ImgBurn isn't a conversion program (and nowhere does it say it is), no talk on the subject is really anything to do with ImgBurn and hence doesn't belong on this forum. There are a million and one other forums FAR better suited to helping you out. To name but a few... www.doom9.org www.videohelp.com www.digital-digest.com www.afterdawn.com If you're telling me you Googled 'Convert VCD to DVD' and somehow got linked to the ImgBurn forum that I sincerely apologise - I just don't believe for a second that would actually happen.

So you're actually trying to burn an ISO file? Take it back to the raw IFO/BUP/VOB files and then use Build mode instead.

Sounds like you've got a VCD or SVCD. You can easily Google that one.

Already mentioned in the bugs forum and has been sorted for the next release. Thanks for posting though

You can get 90 and 99 minute ones. SVP have 90min ones in stock (not much use to you, I know!) Can't you just overburn it though? I'm sure 80 minute discs will cope with an extra 11 or so seconds.

Your drive is ancient and doesn't support that media. Try to get some older 4x or 8x stuff. Better still, invest in a new drive.

Happy to be of assistance (Speaking on behalf of mmalves, donta and myself there!)

You're removing the controllers, not the channels - yeah? Just remove both and reboot.

Yup, that's the whole idea behind the 'Important' bit in that post in the FAQ. Windows lies.

That's a warning and it means exactly what it says. Your D: drive is formatted using the FAT32 file system and you can't store files larger than 4GB in size on drives using that file system. Convert it to NTFS to get around that limitation. 'Device not ready (medium not present)' means you don't have a disc in the drive or the drive doesn't support the media you've put in it.

Correct. SPTI is default and it's what I use day in, day out. Hardware devices in the PC are assigned classes. One of those classes is a 'CdRom' class and it allows access to all of the optical drives in the machine. They're accessed via names like CdRom1, CdRom2, CdRom3 etc. If you don't use that then it goes via drive letters C:\, D:\, E:\ etc. It wouldn't make any difference really unless you have weird drives or ones that don't have drive letters.

Because of the verify errors it can introduce.

Going by the screenshot you posted above, it's already set to DVD-ROM. If you've changed it since then, change it back. You should also leave the layer break setting on 'Calculate Optimal'. The value will be read from the .DVD file and that value should always be present anyway.

Nope I'm afraid not.

A pressed DL disc is not the same as a burnt one. One working doesn't automatically mean the other will too. You might like to double check your drive it booktyping the DVD+R DL's to DVDROM, I think that drive does it automatically but it's a good idea to check. Does the DVD+R DL fail at the LB in the same way the DVD-R DL did?

Please post the info from the log window as you see it.

Of course, I own most of them Yes Optiarc ones use the NEC commands - but you can tell this for yourself because they work! lol Personally I wouldn't touch a thing and just leave it on DVD-ROM. That's the best setting.

It seems odd that they'd tell you NOT to booktype to DVD-ROM?! I wonder if that's a mistake in their guide? As the setting you're changing is JUST for DVD+R DL media, 'Normal' means to leave it at DVD+R DL and 'DVD-ROM' (which appears to be default anyway) of course sets it to 'DVD-ROM'.

Sony don't really make their own drives, they rebrand them. Find the real OEM and use the appropriate tab. The tabs are for the 'type' of commands the drive supports, serveral 'brands' can use the same type.

The first (and only) error you post was due to copy protection on the discs. If you're saying it's not because of that then you must have posted the wrong error - please provide us with the real one. Just remember that if you're posting a log from a failed read of a commercial DVD then we're just gonna tell you to go elsewhere again. It really doesn't make any difference that it worked before and doesn't now, it's not anything to do with ImgBurn as it wouldn't have ever read your protected discs. If you've uninstalled some other program, I'm afraid that really is your own problem and you need to figure out what it is - we cannot and will not tell you.

What you're seeing here is that the drive itself is reporting it's not ready. No program will be able to do anything with the drive until it manages to initialise the disc properly.

Are the ones you've burnt coming up with that error too? Are you sure the discs are the same? You might have some from the same brand but they use a different dye to the others and the drive doesn't support the dye on these newer ones. All you can really do is check for firmware updates and try cleaning the drive.

That's 16x media and your drive is only showing it as 4x. As such I'd have to say the drive can't really cope with it. Try and get some 8x stuff instead, you should find it more compatible.

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