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This isn't XP related, it's down to your AV software not liking the OpenCandy plugin used by the latest installer and just deleting the file. Get your software to prompt you before taking action and tell it not to. Or add an exception / pause it for a few minutes whilst you go about your business.

So you've dragged and dropped the contents of a disc into a folder on your hdd? Assuming you no longer have the DVD (as that would be easier), just add the folder on your HDD to the 'Source' box in 'Build' mode and make yourself a new ISO.

You aren't burning your files as a DVD Video disc. Notice the 'Content Type' field in the log just says 'Data' rather than 'DVD Video'. Which files have you actually added to the source box? ImgBurn would normally detect you're trying to burn a DVD Video disc and configure itself accordingly. You must be doing something really strange if that isn't working. Do you have a VIDEO_TS.IFO file?

I can't see that update making any difference to ImgBurn.

Boot into safe mode and see if you have the same problem.

If that's all it says it supports those discs at, that's all it supports them at. It's a firmware thing, so unless you've updated that recently, nothing will have changed. Different drives support different discs at different speeds.

Recurse subdirectories doesn't do what you're saying it does. With it enabled, it'll include sub folders of what you add (and sub folders of those folders). Without it enabled, it won't. It's the 'preserve full pathnames' option that makes the program include the names of parent folders, right back to the root. Turn off the preserve one, turn on the recurse one and do as ianymaty said.

Please verify your burns. We can't tell if the burner can even read the disc, let alone the playback device. Those discs have the RITEK MID/dye, not the proper MKM verbatim one.

I see no reason for this problem to be image specific. The disc is coming out unreadable, that's it. What you have to understand is that working burns are down to your drive / firmware / media combo. The software simply passes the data to be written to the disc to the drive. If I ask you to write down a sentence and you have awful handwriting, use a thick marker pen and use blotting paper, it's not really my fault when someone else can't read it. Use your best handwriting, a decent pen and decent paper. I wish you every success with other software.

What happens if you use decent media with MCC or MKM disc id/ dye?

I did suggest 8x but never mind You'll have to try some different discs and perhaps cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc.

Have you tried burning at something other than 'Max' speed (i.e. 8x) ?

They don't, no. The padding is just for DVD video double layer burns.

If you're burning an ISO, the /filesystem, /udfrevision and /volumelabel options don't apply - remove them. Your current command line seems to have an extra " in it. That could be why it isn't working.

The bootable disc tab in Build mode is where you'd do that.

Your drive reported a 'write error' as it tried to burn the disc. Try dropping the write speed to 4x rather than using max speed (10x). Failing that, try some discs with a different MID.

You can configure it to read 64kb (32 sectors) or 32kb (16 sectors) at a time. Asking a drive to read 1 sector at a time results in very slow performance, so it reads 16 or 32 and drops down to single sector when the drive reports an error. It then returns to 16 or 32 after a while. Only the errors during single sector reads are actual errors that'll cause data to be missing from your image file. For DVD, the ECC block size is 16 sectors. For BD it's 32. So reading in chunks of 16 or 32 is normal.

That's all your drive reports it supports for that media. Software can't make it go faster than it wants to.

Reset ImgBurn's settings. There's no reason to change anything and half the stuff you read on the internet is complete rubbish. The program will tell you which drive settings to change (and offer to do it for you) when you're using the recommended MKM-003-00 discs. Basically, just enable the 'force hypertuning' option. The others are left alone. Burn them at 4x and you don't need the payload tool as 2.5.8.0 does it automatically.

The order comes from the names of the files. If you want them in order, you'd need to find how the playback device reads them and adjust to suite. Numbering with 001, 002 etc prefixes is the normal way of doing it.

ImgBurn always sends data to the drive as quickly as possible, so any slowdowns are from the drive itself or your system being bogged down. Lots of drives adjust the laser power as they burn and that calibration is often the reason a drive stops for a split second - which then reduces the averaged write rate.

Ok so physically burnt or not, the disc still looks blank. You'll have to try another drive if cleaning it didn't fix it.

Have you tried cleaning the drive? If it isn't working properly, replace it.

Go into Read mode, insert one of your 'burnt' (but non verifying) discs into the drive and then copy + paste everything from the info box on the right once it's been populated.

Put the disc in another drive, does it see what you burnt on it? You could try cleaning your drive with a cleaning disc.