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Active@ Boot Disk is a good solution that I use succesfuly to acces damaged or non bootable systems http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm

The log shows the burn and verify succesfuly. ImgBurn has done it's job perfectly. Did you try to boot from it? That ISO has no file system. You won't see anything on it with Explorer. On the other hand you are using an old version of ImgBurn. See my sig for update.

The firmware is an internal program of the drive stored on a chip that controls the strategy to burn on various discs and formats. It's designed by the manufacturer and can be updated to support more strategy/discs than it stored at initial release. Now I can't find any firmware update for your drive. All you can do is step by step following that guide to eliminate all posible problems. In the end when nothing has worked (new firmware, cleaning the lens, other speeds, other MID/dye media) you need to replace that drive with a working one. Oh, avoid slim/laptop burners as they are known as rubbish in general, especialy on DL discs, regardless of the manufacturer. If you need to replace the laptop burner you better get one standard drive in an external enclosure.

Same blank, same image, surely not the same burner. Read and follow this. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

Try a higher speed (all), you are using 8x rated media after all... Always enable verify, that will tell you if the burn was good or not.

You have to try all speeds to find wich one produce the best burn. The burn at a specified speed might be good and verified OK in that drive, but other drives or consoles might not like it. Again, If it burned and verifyed succesfully, your problem is elsewhere.

You missed the last part... If it verifyed OK than ImgBurn has done its job. 3x is the slowest speed supported by your drive/firmware on that media. Try the other speeds too.

Read the pink box above. Post a log with burn and verify.

You started in the wrong section, it's not ImgBurn bug, but here you are... This is the latest firmware for youre drive http://www.firmwarehq.com/Philips/DVDR1628P1/files.html Why are you forcing to write at 1x on 8x rated media (2.4x being slowest speed ever available on +R media)? Remove any disc from the drive, update the firmware and try all speeds available. A lens cleaning disc in that old drive might help. Try to find 2.4x media (MKM-001-00)

Not everybody have a new player that supports both standards PAL/NTSC. Region free and PAL/NTSC are two (three) different things. Google sure will help you as you claim it.

Clean the lens with a cleaning disc or manual with a soft cloth/cotton bud and alcohol

Why are you using Incremental? Switch back to DAO. 2x is not an option for +R format, 2.4x being the lowest speed for it. You are using 8x rated media but your drive show only 2.4x and 4x as supported speeds. Try them both.

Says who? That was ages ago, but is not the case now with modern drives that are well tuned to burn at high speeds. Go on, take your chance and try 8x. You are using 8x media after all.

If you talk about the task pane of Windows Explorer on left that has nothing to do with ImgBurn, it's Windows behaviour. You probably draged that file on drive and Windows wants to burn it to disc, that's how you burn files from Windows Explorer using Windows built in burning engine. ImgBurn always finalize discs regardles.

Try with the new firmware http://www.firmwarehq.com/Samsung/SH-S202N/files.html RW discs are not so reliable in time. See if it has fingerprints or scratches, try polish it. Give it a full erase. Try with a new one or use regular discs.

Why not use their utility to live update? http://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/121/tech_a_bios.htm

Looks great. I'm out of options now.

If it can be read easily on other computers than I think is not a problem the disc itself. It's funny though that the burner can't see what itself put on that disc and verified as OK. Go to Tools/Filter Driver Load Order... copy to clipboard and paste here.

Update drive's firmware http://www.firmwarehq.com/Lite-On/iHAS424%2BY/files.html Try burn at a lower speed rather than leave it to MAX

See the pink box above. Post a log.

The version has nothing to do with the drive recognizing the media. The disc that don't work are from the same spindle with those that worked? If your drive have problems recognizing the new media, try other brands too. Verbatim are recommended.

So it won't detect any disc you throw in? How about the discs burned in past, can it still read them back? Clean your drive lens with a lens cleaning disc or even manual if you know how. You can still give one of the logs of the last burned, if you want. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=14632

Post a log with burn and verify as the pink box above says.

Do you used any tool to extract and add to the image? If that tool give you the size difference than it's that tools's problem or your lack of knowledge in modifing the install. If you exported just one image (i.e. just Ultimate and not all others images) from the install.wim, than yes, the image will be different. You just need to delete ei.cfg from sources folder to get you able to select any edition at install. Rebuild the image with ImgBurn like in the guide. The final size shouldn't be way different, only ~50 b smaller. To modify the install to run something else after the install finish at first boot, like updatepacks, that's another story and it has nothing to do with ImgBurn.

Follow this guide http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=11194