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Was the HDD, thanks for your help. It just started getting worse and worse, orphaned files, etc.

Genious! It was the files, really odd how do a bunch of ISOs get corrupt on a HDD? I did have a brownout recently but one ISO that has been sitting on the drive for a while was recognized, yet the rest all added to the HDD recently do not get recognized. Going to look into why that would happen, I still get buffer probs and miscompares tho.. but discs work. Thanks a lot arrr! I 20:49:52 ImgBurn Version 2.4.1.0 started! I 20:49:52 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 20:49:52 Total Physical Memory: 1,572,320 KB - Available: 983,076 KB I 20:49:52 Initialising SPTI... I 20:49:52 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 20:49:52 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD

Its an ASUS P4PE, updated to the latest bios , the drive is on IDE 1 and the hdds on IDE 2, i know its backwards conventionally but never was a problem before, this system has stayed the same for 3+ yeras... the controller is coming up as Intel 82801DB Ultra ATA Controller.

Ive only burned ISOs... I checked the ram and no problems.. the drive is on a seperate IDE channel then the HDDs, and ATAPI, Definition of: ATAPI drive Refers to a CD-ROM or tape drive that uses the ATA (IDE) interface. See ATAPI and IDE. what should they be coming up as?

I have looked and searched and found information on each problem i can see i have with individual solutions but none have worked. This has happened just suddenly on a fresh install, the system is subject to few changes. I am using verbatim disks, the first 4 or 5 burns were ok then suddenly i can not burn successfully. My hdds are defraged, i dont have anything running out of the usual kaspersky and aim, smart has not detected any probs with the hdds. going to run a stress test and memtest now.. any suggestions are appreciated I 18:11:53 ImgBurn Version 2.4.1.0 started! I 18:11:53 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 18:11:53 Total Physical Memory: 1,572,320 KB - Available: 1,146,428 KB I 18:11:53 Initialising SPTI... I 18:11:53 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 18:11:54 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD