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Under Vista, I seem to recall SPTI is now available to everyone. Under XP there is a work around for admin rights, as posted in the FAQ. Real ASPI (i.e. Adaptec's one) doesn't support USB / Firewire.

The capacity thing can be changed so DVDRAM + BDRE use the full size of the disc. It's an option in the settings.

I've added basic support for detecting FAT16 / FAT32. Test mode is a feature of the drive. It works ok for DVDRAM on my LG one (which I just tested) but perhaps doesn't apply to DVDRAM on yours (in the same way it wouldn't apply to DVD+R/RW).

I didn't burn the image, I just mounted it in DT. DVDRAM makes use of 'spare areas' for recovery purposes (bad sectors etc). That's why the discs appear smaller.

ImgBurn doesn't convert anything. All you've done is burn an AVI file to a disc. Unless your player supports playing AVI files, it's never going to work!

Fixed it now. Thanks for the image and your time

I burnt it, tried it, deleted the folder, tried it again, added some more stuff, tried it, deleted it again, tried it. Still no issues I'm afraid! You're going to have to provide an image of the *actual* disc that causes ImgBurn to die or there's nothing I can do Obviously you'll need to image it with another program though

All we have is what's in the 'Guides' forum.

Your Memorex +R were probably CMC dye discs and they're useless! Verbatim +R MCC dye ones should be much better. If you get 16x ones, just stick to 8x or 12x for the write speed. You should get a really good burn that way. Your drive should booktype the +R's to DVDROM so you won't have any compatibility problems in that sense.

Try some +R Verbatims, they're better anyway. A lot of the Samsung drives have issues with DVD-R discs due to some leadin bug in the firmware.

It always says a message, just take a look! It's the thing down the very bottom of the main window - yeah?! It should say something like 'Device Not Ready ([insert reason for not being ready here])'.

What's the message in the status bar? If you've a disc in the drive (and the right drive selected!), there's no reason for it not to work. My guess is that you're using discs the drive doesn't support. Check for a firmware update for it.

Ok, I formatted mine with UDF 2.0 in that DVDForm.exe program, tried it - worked ok. Added some files via Drag + Drop in explorer, tried it - worked ok. Added some more files via Drag + Drop in explorer, tried it - worked ok. If you / your brother could send me the first 5mb from any image you do manage to make, I'll examine the filesystem and see why it runs out of memory.

The problem i'm seeing when i go to change book type, is i select, samsung drive, and with a fresh DVD+R DL, the field that reads: current setting states, "unknown (FAILED)!" therefore the new setting drop down menu is disabled as well as the Change button. That doesn't sound right! Are you sure you're on the 'Samsung' tab? If you are, maybe you need a firmware update because it would seem your drive doesn't support the booktype command at the moment. Whenever you're having problems, you should ALWAYS ensure you're doing a Verify as part of the burn. It's the only way we can know things are working as they should do.

Basically, yeah. There's an option in the setting to have imgburn ignore everything except the actual 'user data' part of the sector if you want to try again with that enabled - or just use any old file compare program to compare the two folders.

ImgBurn won't read encrypted discs - in any way, shape or form. If it really does mention 'Audio' in the status bar and the disc in the drive is just a normal DVD, the drive is misreporting the disc format/information.

If verbatims don't work (at least in the drive that wrote them!), throw the drive in the bin. Oh and next time you burn (once you've got some Verbs), turn the Verify feature on so you can make sure they're working / not working.

If I had such a changer, I might spend some time getting it to work. As I don't, there's little chance of it happening I'm afraid.

I'm just formatting one in a tool called DVDForm so I'll take a look in a minute too. Maybe the problem comes after you've added some files to it a few times or something? The format/erase in ImgBurn doesn't put a filesystem on the disc, it wipes the disc clean - hence it's not the same thing as the InCD format.

ImgBurn won't copy protected discs.

lol yeah I had her last year! I paid her ?50 for the night and all she did was eat my fcuking cake! Fingers crossed I'll run into some girls like the ones kev posted when I'm out at the weekend Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes - although as LFC pointed out, it's not technically until tomorrow here in the UK

I'd dump all the class filter ones there if I was going for a really clean machine.

Yes, you do.

I'd actually do it round the other way Firmware updates always come first!

Do you not have any decent discs you could try writing to? Some Verbatims or Taiyo Yudens perhaps? If you haven't already, check and see if there are any firmware updates available too.