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Any difference if you turn 'Perform OPC Before Write' back off? Your drive is getting on a bit now, maybe it needs cleaning? How old are your discs? Are they genuine and branded taiyo yuden or something else?

You need to be on the main ImgBurn window, then press F8. It'll say it has been enabled in the log window. I must have removed the checkbox in the settings. Oh well!

What you should do is enable I/o debug mode before going into the changer control and pressing the scan button. From what I recall, all it's doing is loading the disc from slot X, waiting a while for it to become ready, unloading again and preceding to test the next one. It looks to me as if those commands are getting stuck on your system for some reason. The debug enabled log file may shed more light. Enable I/o debug mode by pressing F8 or by going into the settings and enabling it on the I/o tab.

I expect this is more of a system issue. The scanning is just done in a loop, so it would not work at all if there was a problem. Perhaps try another FireWire cable?

How many have you tried and failed to burn? I don't suppose there are many options for 8cm discs.

Go into the setting and adjust the default destination field on the Read tab. It generates it automatically by default. You can right click the browse box and pick from the history list if required.

You'll have to try a different enclosure.

That's not the same alert really, it's warning you to the presence of 'PUA/opencandy', where PUA stands for potentially unwanted application or addon I assume. That one is meant to be there (OpenCandy that is). You'll need to take charge of your AV software, tell it to allow the file, install it and just be sure to read the wizard screens properly so you only install what you want to install. OpenCandy inserts extra pages in the wizard that offer you 3rd party software. If you don't want what it's offering, just opt out of installing them. You can always opt out.

Go into read mode and click on the button that shows the media info. ImgBurn will show you the cdtext info if it's on the disc.

There's a plugin to let windows media player read cdtext. Yes, they look up the details in a database. Hardware devices that support cdtext will show it if it's encoded on the disc. If it isn't or they don't, they won't.

That file is not the one from the ImgBurn mirror listed on the ImgBurn website's download page. What you've got there is a 'downloader' - as can be seen from the file name. Do not run it, go and get the correct file from mirror 7, the 'ImgBurn' one.

If your drive can't burn those discs at either of the speeds it claims to support them at, you'll have to buy some different discs.

Nope, you can use Explorer to copy from the stick to a folder though.

Verify can't cause issues, it finds them!

Your drive is producing an unreadable disc. It's nothing to do with what you're burning or how much you're burning, it's just one of those things with the drive/firmware/media combo you're using. Try installing the latest firmware and give it another go. http://www.tsstodd.com/eng/firmware/fwdownload/?functionvalue=view&no=812 If it still doesn't work, try different 'supported' write speeds (notice 2x isn't even an option so it's using 16x) and try different discs.

Is it not on the 'open with' one if nothing else? It should fix itself if you run it once as admin and close it down again. That menu option might make it a bit easier but you can always just load the program and click the 'write image file to disc' button. Browse for your source file and then burn away.

That's what your drive is reporting and that's all it can go by. Was there nothing else in that window? Were you in Write mode? Find some different CDRs and see if the drive reports the correct size for those.

It's ok, I just mentioned ISO files because your initial post said you'd burnt those ok. Had to make sure we're comparing apples with apples There's no reason your drive would have worked for those but not for what you're burning now - assuming the same discs were used etc. Although you haven't provided the burn log, it looks like you burnt the disc at max speed (8x). Try burning at 4x instead.

So you had the same problem in safe mode? Can you do anything to the 'mode' of your sata controller in the bios? Try the ide/ compatible/ahci type options. If you have access to another drive, try that instead of your current one. Have amd released any driver updates for you controller? Not a fan of anything non Intel myself.

No. It depends on what your drive actually supports.

I very much doubt 1x is an option for your drive/firmware/media combo. Are you verifying your burns when you burn the ISO files? You aren't going to have run into this issue unless you are - the burning phase itself is completing without error. DVD-A should be fine. Your drive doesn't know or care what's on the disc. Data is data.

It'll support anything your system can decode. It's all down to the directshow filters you have installed.

This isn't related to what you're putting on the disc, the disc is just unreadable. What speed did you burn it at? Regardless, your drive did a bad job of burning the disc.

How many successful burns have you had with your current hardware / software setup? As the program says it's attempting to write the LeadIn, I'd say your machine/drive isn't processing any of the 'Write' commands at all. Boot into safe mode and see if you have the same problem. I'd also suggest installing the current version of ImgBurn and copying ImgBurn.exe into the DVDFlick installation folder - as the one it bundles is very old now. Once you're on the current version, load it up and go into Write mode. Right click on the drive selection drop down box and pick 'Family Tree'. Close the prompt that comes up and then copy + paste everything from the Log window please.

The 'Underburning' checkbox on the General tab in the Settings should take care of that. It'll obviously turn off all such prompts where a smaller than current disc could be used for the selected image though - you've been warned