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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.

Yes, when in 'Build' mode, simply switch the 'Output' to either 'Image File' or 'Device'. There's also a little button for it just under the 'Destination' box. If you 'Build' to a file and then 'Write' to a disc, the two processes are completely different/separate and that's why it parses the file system of the image when the 'Verify' starts. If you 'Build' direct to a disc, the 'Verify' stage will use the info that's already in memory for the file system data.

A lot of bootable CD's use their own custom loaders - i.e. the Windows install CDs. That's just a few sectors worth of data that boots the kernel loader or whatever and not an entire floppy disc image. You can of course also make an image of a HDD partition and put that on the CD as the boot image.

Yeah I do a lot of stuff on the desktop too, but I never 'drag' anything, I just right click and select 'Extract to [enter name of archive file here]' and it extracts to a folder of that name. I think 7-zip might become more widespread over the next few years, but right now its in the same boat as rar was a few years back with nobody really knowing how to handle the files... 'zip' was HUGE back then and people were like, 'rar? eh?!'. ) Now I quite often see rar files over various places, but as you say, zip is the one sites will use for their content because that's the one everyone knows - and I bet that is helped by modern OS's having built-in support for the zip format.

I guess it just depends on what you're used to. I can honestly say I've never right clicked and dragged an archive file (with the purpose of extracting it) in my entire life. I guess you might find it useful in the way you like to work, but for me, it's only useful if I have already navigated to the folder I'm going to want to extract to. Then I think to myself, why bother navigating when the program has a perfectly good extraction folder / file browser thingy of it's own? (I use WinRar over WinZip btw) Not only that, I can right click, 'Extract to...' and just type in a path. The auto complete methods make light work of navigating the directory structure. So yeah, if you're used to right clicking and dragging, I can see why you'd want that functionality in all your programs. On the other hand, a lot of users don't even know when to left click and when to right click, let alone know what a context menu is - and that's without bringing the whole 'dragging' thing into the equation! lol

We often still (or at least I do!) call it 'building an ISO' even if it's on-the-fly. 'building a disc' doesn't quite sound right. I often add the word 'directly' when i mean it goes straight to disc rather than to an image file. Oh and lets not forget it's called 'build' mode, hence 'build/building/built' gets thrown around a lot anyway. In any case, I've spent some time this afternoon trying to speed up the parsing code. There was a bit of semi non-sequential reading going on and I can only guess that might be what was playing havoc with your NAS. That's not to say the changes I've made will perform miracles! An hour and a half to parse the filesystem sounds somewhat ridiculous! Over my LAN, I could probably have an ISO with a billion files in it and it wouldn't take that long! Let's just wait and see if 2.3.1.0 is better for you.

Cue support is lacking because the program won't do multitrack / session images. When (if) it does, I'm sure the cue files will be supported too. As you say, depending on the complexity of the cue file, burning the bin is fine. It's not often you find multi track images these days. They might have been more common back when games etc had real cdda audio - these days they tend to use the compressed formats. Of course a lot now come on DVDs too and then there's no reason for a multitrack image.

Indeed, it's always worth asking If I already had a dll in place to handle all the context menu stuff, perhaps it wouldn't be such a big ask. But like your name, I am a bit of a lazybones and I prefer to spend my time working on the core parts of the program (using existing knowledge) rather than little things (I have no prior knowledge of) that only a few people will benefit from. I think you're a little off the wall when you say: Simplifying is one thing, but what you're asking for here in not 'normal' functionality for any burning program I've ever seen created. You're more likely to find that sort of functionality on a Mac. You shouldn't think of Chris's dll as another tool, it's simply an extension of ImgBurn - lots of programs have extensions that don't make it into the base package, it's certainly not a new concept.

It doesn't look quite as simple as just adding a few reg keys, you have to build a dll to do all the work and register it as a content menu handler. Sorry but that looks like to much messing around with stuff I've not done before, for something one person will probably use once in their lifetime! Being able to drag and drop a drive onto a folder and have some program load up and make an ISO of it is erm... a little weird. Feel free to make your own one to do that though. It's nothing you need me for - as you say, all the CLI stuff is already there, just use it. Some guy called 'Chris' on this forum made one for right clicking on a VIDEO_TS folder and building an ISO from it. I'm sure that could be expanded to do what you want it to do.

A driver from 2005 in an OS with 90% of it's drivers still in Beta in 2007... I'd remove it just for the hell of it! Then I'd go into device manager and remove my IDE controller as per the DMA post in the FAQ. If that doesn't fix things, I give up.