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I'm not really sure how to do that to be honest. I think I have to prevent the 2nd instance from running fully and instead just search for another instance, pass some custom windows message to it and then shut down. Remembering that ImgBurn has lots of 'modes' and only Write mode would be suitable for this, it seems a bit hit and miss. So basically, sorry but it's not something I'll be doing any time soon. If you want to queue up extra images to an existing instance, drag and drop them into the Write mode source box. For future reference, if I don't reply to a suggestion I'm usually not interested in it / it's something I've already done / it's something that's been talked about on several occassions.

Doh, two threads! *closed*

It's automatic for samsung drives (assuming they support it full stop). Your one appears to support it.

Nope, if you tried that (at my level of working), the write command would just error out saying the disc hasn't been formatted. At user level though, it's up to the program to decided if they want the user to know what's going on.

Sometimes 4x does produce a better burn than 2.4x, it all depends on what the drive's firmware is optimised for. So go back to using 4x. btw, in dvdinfopro, set the 'PIE Scale' / 'PIF Scale' / 'Jitter Scale' dropdown boxes to 'Auto', set the 'Show PIE' / 'Show PIF' options to 'Block', then set the 'Speed' one to 4x. The graphs will be a lot nicer looking then.

It really does sounds as if it's just died on you. (btw, DVD+RW need formatting when they're new) You can get new drives for under £20 now and I doubt that's much more than you just paid for your DVD+RW's!

It looks like your drive has broken then.

I'd try 4x, failing that, clean the drive and try again. Failing that consider the drive faulty and get yourself a replacement / buy a new one.

Buy a player that supports PAL format discs or run them through a conversion tool. This isn't something you use ImgBurn for so your best bet is to Google for more information.

Right click the ISO and you'll get 'Burn with ImgBurn'. You won't get it if you right click on the drive. (You also need to have opened / closed the program once since reinstallation)

For some reason, the 'full text' search method doesn't pick up any results for mcc-004-00 etc but the 'manual' one does - so I've changed it to use manual now.

You can't erase it because your drive only supports DVD+R / +RW discs. Now is probably good time to invest in a new multiformat burner.

Your drive doesn't appear to support the DVD-RW's you're using and of course burning to CD is failing because the image is DVD sized and therefore FAR too big for a CD. Try posting the FULL log from when you try and write to a DVD-RW. (and by FULL, I mean FULL)

I see a lot of people doing this and I'd try to prevent them being silly if only I knew exactly HOW they were doing it. If you just add an image file to the source box in Build mode, it should warn you that you're potentially not using ImgBurn correctly and should switch to Write mode.

Have you actually tried reading the disc off using Read mode? It's not rocket science, just load the program, select 'Read' mode from the 'Mode' menu are the top, put your disc in the drive and hit the big 'Read' button down the bottom left of the main ImgBurn window. That'll read it to an image file on your hard drive. Then follow the guide in the Guides section to write the image file back to disc.

ImgBurn doesn't read copy protected discs.

Gimme a little credit, please!

It just applies to DVD Video. There's no list of players that support it, you just have to try it and see I'm afraid. The option in the settings is there to save people who use the option all the time from clicking it on the actual 'layer break' window. As a one off test, there's no need to touch the one in the settings at all.

Sorted via KEY_WOW64_64KEY I think.

I've given up trying to guess one.

Nope, I don't write one there. I could do, I just never really saw the point.

It would indeed be a vista problem. At the moment it seems as if only 64bit apps can add autoplay handlers. MS should either mirror changes in that key on both versions or they should examine both when figuring out what to display in the autoplay boxes. To fix it for now though you can just do what I said. Export the 32bit key to a reg file, edit it in notepad to remove the non ImgBurn stuff (and any reference to Wow6432Node) and then import it back into the 64bit one.

Nope, I don't think it's possible. You'll have to export the key i write and then edit it in notepad before importing it again.

lol typing at the same time Vista x64 must be translating my 32bit program call to open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft. I'll see if I can find a way around it.

Run something like 'Process Monitor' (from sysinternals) to capture what's going on when ImgBurn is closed and tries to write to the registry (you can setup a filter just for ImgBurn), it might give you an idea of why it's not working. Then you can tell me and i'll try and fix it