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What does it say in the info panel on the right? Copy + paste it all. If you can do Tools -> Drive -> Erase -> Full, and it still says the same thing, your drive doesn't fully support those discs. There is no specific 'format' option in the program, it's done automatically. To be honest, plextors are pretty useless with rewritable discs (well, my 760 is anyway). I always have to resort to using another of my drives for anything I want doing on a rewritable.

I doubt it's a joke, I get these all the time. People get conned into buying those crappy packages that bundle freeware. Then they realise they're stupid and just contact the first email address they find.

It definitely sends an eject / insert command combo, so why it's not closing is anyone's guess! Just press the button on the drive manually to insert the disc and it'll start verifying if it's been told to.

It's primarily a burning tool though, not really a 'reader'.

This is nothing to do with ImgBurn, it's simply a burning tool. You need to look at whatever program you're using for the authoring / conversion stuff. If you're actually just writing *.mpg / *.avi files to a disc using ONLY 'Build' mode, your player must have duff support for those files. Check to see if there's a firmware update for your player.

Yes, if you've not added one yourself, the computer would need to have had one inside it when you purchased it. Currently, yours does not - hence you cannot burn DVDs. They're only about

Yup, I think so! (well, it appears to anyway )

I'd use the gold one. That's probably where it's supposed to be. The green ones also have grey ones at the same LBA, so they're not actually that good.

It's sector by sector, byte by byte. It doesn't get any better!

It's either scratched or protected. Either way, there's nothing ImgBurn can do about it.

I've already got it reading / writing those types of images (from bin/cue), but that's no use for build mode obviously! In time, I'm sure build mode will be improved to handle adding to a disc too.

spin up should be automatic as the drive will initialise the disc when it's first inserted. If it's not doing that, there's something wrong and it's not software related.

You must not be looking in the right place then. Just click the icon with a pad and a pen on it.

Sorry but this is nothing to do with ImgBurn.

If the current drive gets changed when you load the IBB, it gets stuck with that 'terminating interface thread' message. I'll make sure it's fixed for the next version.

Uncheck auto-calculate then try again.

loads of the options on the 'write' tab apply to 'build' mode (and to 'discovery' mode too). That's just the way it works because everything uses the same bit of burning code. The verify tab is aimed more at the standalone 'verify' mode, where of course cycling the tray wouldn't apply.

Generally speaking you're much better off using DVD+R DL rather than DVD-R DL. As it says, you can't set the layer break position for -R DL media. That's one of it's drawbacks. All you can do is try to burn whatever it is that you're burning and then test it. It'll either work or it won't - in which case you just lost a few quid.

Yeah, ImgBurn does! Put the disc in and look at the info panel on the right. The amount of data explorer shows on the disc has nothing to do with the actual size of the disc. You can't see 3gb of data and assume it's single layer (although 99% of the time it would be).

It can't have been single layer, simple as that.

Before you burn your next discs, just try enabling the bitsetting manually. If you get a 'Success' message, there's no reason for it not to work. If you don't and it fails, your drive must just not support bitsetting.

Who am I to disappoint chewy? It shall be done.

Give up trying. If it doesn't work now, it's not going to.

'Access Denied' would suggest what I said earlier. You don't have permission to write to the file. Might I suggest you make yourself a folder somewhere, give yourself full permission on it and then use that as your storage area rather than where you're using at the moment - which obviously you can't use. Or you could right click the ImgBurn icon and run it as the administrator.

Your problem is different actually. I don't know why yours is failing. The drive might be overly picky on the exact format of the cue sheet I'm sending, or it might be failing for a more generic reason. You'd need to enable I/O debug mode (press F8), then try to write the disc again so that it captures more info in the log. Press F8 again to disable it when you've got the 'failed to send cue sheet' message. Then save + upload the log.