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Configure the handling of them in the settings. Command line only automates the gui. It's still always a gui app.

It's nothing to do with what you're burning to the disc, the disc itself is just unreadable after the burn. How many of the BD-RE disc have you got / tried? It might be worth doing a full format on it and see if the same thing happens. Until you burn and verify a disc without any issues, I'd forget about worrying about it playing back or not.

The program remembers which 'input' mode was last used and that's the one that becomes active when you change to build mode. Both methods still have the two distinct 'source' and 'destination' boxes. The 'source' when you're in 'advanced input' is just more configurable (and visual).

There's nothing wrong with spanning the layer change and no attempt is made to keep a file just in one layer. Files on DVD video discs do span them too.

Just a restart or a complete power down, switch off at the mains, switch on at the mains and then on again? It needs to be the latter. With I/O Debug mode enabled, it should be logging a lot more and updating the status bar with more info. If it only ever says that exact message, one of the Windows API calls issued early on must not be returning control to the program. I have no idea which one or why I'm afraid.

Have you powered your machine off and on again? What message do you see in the status bar of ImgBurn's main window? There's nothing in the Log for me to look at.

Then I recommend you use one and see how you get on.

It doesn't appear to like the discs How old are they? Are they real / branded Taiyo yuden discs? Have you tried at 8x and without 'perform opc before write' enabled?

Post the log of you burning a verbatim disc please. Btw, slimline drives do not make for good burners.

Yes, that's definitely usb 3

You'll have to use a BD disc to reach that transfer rate. Burning or reading one at over 6x would probably do it.

It could be a problem with ImgBurn or the OS misreporting that info. Can you read or burn a disc where the transfer rate exceeds ~25MB/s? If so, it probably is USB 3.0.

I expect so, yes.

Yes, that's fine and no need for the reference.

Just the last file I/O instruction ImgBurn issues really... I'd assume nothing much will be logged once it gets stuck.

It might be worth running process monitor (sysinternals/ Microsoft) and examining the ImgBurn process to see what's going on when it gets stuck. Are you happy to do that?

Make an ISO rather than burning to disc. What happens then? If it can't read the file, the OS should report an error back to the program, which in turn will report it to you.

BIN and ISO (disc images) are like boxes you put things in. You need to take the things out of the 'box' before thinking about any conversion that may or may not to take place. If you mount your disc images in a virtual drive program (like Virtual CloneDrive or DAEMON Tools), you can then access their contents properly.

The usb socket on the back is blue though isn't it? Should be usb 3.0

It's only reading stuff you've burnt in the past isn't it? If everything you burn now comes out as an empty disc, it clearly can't be reading those and something has gone wrong with the burning functionality of your drive. The layout refers to the disc layout. As the error message indicates, the program has detected a problem with it - namely that there should be 1 session on the disc and there are 0 sessions (because the drive still reports it is empty).

Yeah so that disc still looks empty to me.... and more importantly, the drive. If all of your discs are coming out 'empty' after you've burnt them, you may just need to buy a new drive as clearly yours isn't functioning properly.

Please take one of the discs you've just burnt and put it back in the drive. Load ImgBurn and go into Write mode. Copy and paste all of the disc info from the box on the right into your next reply.

It looks like your drive thinks the disc is still empty once the burn has completed and the tray has been cycled. Maybe try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc?

Post the log please.

I can't remember if it's supposed to or not. So long as it doesn't change to say BD-R QL, you know it'll fit on your TL disc.