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No there's no way to handle duplicates within ImgBurn. It uses exactly what it's given. Are these duplicate files in the same folders? I'm guessing they're not or it would be easy!

Yes, sounds like crappy media and/or old firmware on the drive. Also, this post is better posted in the Support forum, not Chat - I've moved it. Oh and the program is called ImgBurn, not Imageburn!

They're all drive errors, nothing to do with the program's memory usage etc. Your drive failing to finalise the disc. So things to check are: 1. Your drive's firmware is up-to-date. 2. You're using decent quality Verbatim (MCC dye) or Taiyo Yuden discs.

The problem here is not that ImgBurn itself needs the VIDEO_TS folder, it's that the ISO you're using is corrupt and totally useless. So you need to go back to the stage BEFORE it was created and create it again - but maybe using ImgBurn this time rather than whatever messed it up last time.

Every drive burns differently, even those of the same make / model. The higher quality the burn, the greater the chance of players being able to read it. As you can see from the verify, the drive itself thinks the disc is ok - it read it back fine. What you can see there though is that it's not booktyping to DVDROM. You might like to do a little research into bitsetting / booktype stuff - although I can't be sure your new laptop drive even supports it. When you change a DVD+R (via bitsetting) to make it look like a DVDROM, it becomes more 'compatible' with other drives. This is generally only a problem with older machines though, once made before DVD+R became mainstream. btw, CMC discs are awful too! (sorry!)

What are you burning? How are you burning? What are you expecting to happen? The log window scrolls up & down...there are loads of other lines you need to copy + paste for us to see what's really going on!

Please let it actually finish the verify - if you're using a laptop drive (which I assume you are), don't forget to put the drive tray back in once ImgBurn has ejected it! You should also update to the UDS2 firmware. http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=2113 When you've done that, if it's still not working, do yourself a favour and buy some decent Verbatim (MCC dye) or Taiyo Yuden discs. I'm not a big fan of the RICOHJPN-R03-04 ones.

Hmmm weird that it only burns them at 4x. Try setting the speed to 10x, 12x or something (instead of 'max'). See if it burns at the full 8x when you do that.

We're lucky with our 975 chipsets, at least we get 1 real Intel IDE on the ich7r chip, the 965 (as this chap has), doesn't have any real ones, just the JMicron one! For most people I guess thats not an issue but I've always had 4 IDE optical drives in my pc (and then using just scsi or sata hdds). Going down to 2 was bad enough, I could never live with 0! I'm sure it wouldn't have killed Intel to keep 2 IDE channels Grrrrrr.

lol I found him BUMP

You can't burn a VCD to anything other than a CD. Only CD supports the 'mode' required (Mode 2 / Form 1) for the sectors. ImgBurn does not burn bin / cue setups unless the bin file is a single session / track image - which for VCD it is not. You'll have to use another tool for VCD burning, sorry.

The drivers would be on the gigabyte website - under product support for that actual motherboard. To be honest, I don't know how far this issue goes. If the drive won't accept any of my attempts at setting the write parameters, either I'm doing something silly that only this drive doesn't like or no program will be able to set them. Some programs might not care and just attempt to burn anyway - but it would be total fluke if that worked. The only way to know for sure is to try some others! If they work and the I/O they send could be captured, I could make ImgBurn work too.

That's just an I/O error lfc. Something the drive throws up when it doesn't like the media.

Ahh another 965 chipset board. As I'm sure you know, Intel removed all the PATA interfaces from the 965 chipset so you ARE in fact running from a 3rd party controller. Probably a JMicron one or something. I believe the documents do say that it doesn't support optical drives. These 3 function calls at the beginning of the 'Set Write Parameters' code tell me something isn't quite right. The first is getting the current 'write' values, the second is getting the 'default' values, the third is trying to set the unit to defaults, using the values from the second. As you can see from the 'Invalid Field in Parameter List' error, the unit isn't accepting them. That should not be possible and it would seem to me that they're not even reaching the drive. As taken from the MMC 5 specification document: So basically, I think the drivers for the controller chip are blocking these calls and just returning that error because IT think the drive doesn't support them - as would be correct for a HDD I guess! This is of course assuming you've used ImgBurn or DVD Dec to burn using this drive before - but on your previous machine (i.e. Pre Intel 965 chipset motherboard). As I mentioned earlier, I've only ever seen this command fail on old CDR/RW drives before - where they're so old they didn't really follow any MMC specs. EDIT: Oh I also assume your motherboard BIOS is up to date, along with any BIOS for the JMicron chip if that's a separate download. Check you're running the latest drivers for it too.

I was actually just talking about using the top left button - 'Record Disc'. I click that, then load the tracks (drag + drop MP3 files), then click 'Record Disc'. So long as 'track pregap' is set to 0 seconds it'll all flow smoothly, yes. No gaps, stuttering etc.

Your drive might not support bitsetting - full stop. Most Sony drives up until now have just been OEM LiteOn ones - hence the stuff on the LiteOn tab normally works. Early models only supported the 'Next Write' style of doing things - they've become much more user friendly since then - the drives now remember how you want the bitsetting stuff to be done, even after a reboot etc. For next write, it really only works well for write once media. There's something weird about how DVD+RW bitsetting works. I think the disc has to be brand new for the bitsetting stuff to actually take place. A full format of the +RW disc may work, but not just writing to it.

Ok, I was expecting you to have some mega old CDRW drive or something. It's weird that the set write parameters function would fail on a newer drive. Please get me another log, but this time, before you click the 'Write' button, press the F8 key. Then once it has errored out and given up, press F8 again. SAVE the log (File -> Save As) and attach it as a file - it'll be much bigger this time due to some additional I/O debugging code. The SCSI thing is also not always a good sign. It either means you're running the drive off a 3rd party IDE card / port on your motherboard or it means your drivers are messed up. There are only 2 makes of 3rd party cards (and chipsets) that work properly with optical drives. SiliconImage 680 and ITE8212

It's only a 'mistake' though if the MDS would be useful. If the ISO file is Having the program prompt on single layer images just started to annoy users, that's when I put the check for image size in too.

Hmm I go from mp3 -> CD Audio disc using cdrwin from www.goldenhawk.com I've never had any issues, not even when the tracks flow from one to the other without any breaks in the songs (i.e. they're all mixed into 1) You won't get a seamless MP3 data (audio) disc though unless your player implements some clever caching methods. Even mediaplayer pauses for a fraction of a second at the end of a track before loading the next one. Real CDDA discs without any track pregaps do not suffer that problem.

Can you please copy + paste everything from the log window. Thanks.

I believe 'fair use' only applies if there is no copy protection on the disc that otherwise prohibits you from making a copy. As soon as you circumvent anything, you're breaking the law. So if you can make your backup without using *ANY* special tools (i.e. you JUST use bog standard cd/dvd tools like Nero, RecordNow Max etc) then you're probably ok. Of course normal rules would then apply I guess. If you're no longer licensed to use the original disc, you must destroy all backup copies. NOTE: I am not a lawyer and the above is only a summary of my (very limited) understanding on a very complex matter.

You won't get a 1:1 'bootable' backup unless you do it sector by sector - so simply copying over the folders via explorer etc will not work.

You can't I'm afraid, it's for data only. That is of course assuming you were talking about a proper CD Audio (CDDA) disc and not just a disc containing a bunch of MP3 files.

It always does a quick erase. You're thinking about a format - which is different. A format is required on new DVD+RW media and those that haven't been properly formatted in the first place. If it doesn't say 'Formatted: Yes' in the info panel on the right, ImgBurn will perform a full format. You should only need to do this once so if you find you're doing it all the time (on the same disc), either your drive isn't formatting properly or some other tool/drive is screwing up the format.

It doesn't really matter. Closer to 50/50 ratio is preferred though and a large padding will normally give you that if there are no other obvious layer break positions.