ianymaty

What happens if you select Full Erase?

Could it be you have more than one drive and ImgBurn is accesing the other one, not the one you want? Post a log of that attempt.

You did't mention what you did that this time works. Give feedback, so other people in same situation can find answers by searching not asking again same question on and on. The "buffer kicks in" means that the drive stops to write to disc because the hard disk can't feed the drive fast enough from whatever reason and it gives you the warning "Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level..." to begin continue the burn from that point as soon as data comes to drive. A feature of the drive that save you from coasters.

Acording to this your drive can handle dual layer. The problem is that burning a dual layer is sometimes getting more complex for the burner, by not having the support for that blank in firmware. Update firmware to latest A106 from here and that brand of disc might be supported better. If not , try Verbatim dual layers. Oh, why are you wasting dual layer disc that are expensive when the content will fit on cheaper single layer media, I don't get it.

You should update XP to SP3, too...

A simple search as suggested in the pink bit above should be done before asking, but here it is... http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=The+semaphore+timeout+period+has+expired+site%3Aforum.imgburn.com&meta=&aq=f&oq=

Update your drive firmware to latest JL12 from here , you currently have JL10 installed. Try a lens cleaning disc in that drive. Try other speed available, other than MAX

These days you can burn a CD at 52x and you are forcing it to burn at 1x? What are you intend to achiev? Better result? Don't waste your time, the drive and media are tuned to burn at high rates, so you may get better results with 32-48x rather than with 1-8x on a CD. Can you post a log of that attempt? http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=14632

Any reason to force the drive to write at 1x on 8x rated media? Anyway, your drive are not allow the rated speed, it only allow 2.4x and 4x, so try those. I don't know what you mean by "my burning drive was shutting down and starting up while burning" Are you trying to say that the buffer kicks in?

Look here where can you find the ImgBurn log

You probably let WinRar to asociate .iso files and the package icon it shows in front of the filemane is fooling you to think that is a .zip or .rar. Enable show file extensions for known file types http://www.granneman.com/techinfo/windows/showextensions/ Can you post a log of that attempt?

You need a Double Layer DVD (7.96GB) to fit that amount of data. Notice the layers L0/L1 ?

The name of it tell it what it is. It's the point where the program instructs the laser to finish the first layer and move to write to the 2nd layer. You have to read the Guides written by LIGHTNING UK! or cornholio7 to lern how to set it correctly. There is another Guide written by Cynthia to deal with a posible problen on some specific authored discs, that you should read too.

Oh, it was stated in the first line, I must overlooked that part... Still, something is not right with that drive...

I don't have any refference, but since the DVD-R DL was introduced in 2003, obviously the DVD-ROM DL was used earlyer.

You have the best media you can get and it is rated at 8x but your drive can burn it only at 2.x and 4x. That's not good. Try what Cynthia said and also try the other speed 2.4x since 4x can't do the job done right

Your drive is pretty old and you are using new media. The media you are using is 8x rated and your drive can burn it only at 2.4x Try Verbatim or find 2.4x media are the recommendations.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=7860&st=0&p=118541&hl=+%20+'waitimmediateio&39;%20+deferred%20+error%20+&fromsearch=1&entry118541 A little search on forum would lead you to a whole thread about your problem. For short, your drive firmware has a problem, since the latest is more than 3 years old, most likely will not be another one to cure it. You could try a lens cleaning disc in that drive, other speeds available, and some Verbatim discs. If none of them resolve your problem, get a new drive.

Good news

...from Google calculator... Rightclick on the folder in Explorer and chose Properties. Windows will show you the size of that folder in GB and bytes. If that is a video, you can compress it with DVDShrink (google it) to fit on a DVD5.

Maybe your antivirus scheduled scan, or on the fly scan, than? You have to discover what is causing that it is not normal with just a browser to do that.

Your hard drive is having a hard activity... Stop torrenting or other havy tasks while you burn a disc. Here is a newer firmware SB04 for your drive, you should install it.

That's the maximum that ImgBurn let me put on a Maxell 16x DVD-R

Yeah, from all you mentioned there, it lead you to a DL source disc. Who are "they"? These days almost any comercialy DVD comes as DVD DL from various reasons: the feature runtime is longer than ~60 min, some added commercials, multiple language sountracks and subtitles, trailers and a lot of extras, etc. So there is no room for all that on a SL disc.

In no way you can copy a DL (DVD9) disc and put it directly on a SL (DVD5) disc from one reader to the burner. You have to make a copy of that DL disc to a temp folder on your hard drive. Than use a compression tool like DVDShrink (google it) to make it fit on a SL disc. In DVDShrink you can eliminate some of you don't need to preserve quality as high as posible of the main feature. Keep in mind that DVDShrink and ImgBurn can not deal/copy copyright protected discs and here you will not find any help in circumverting the copy protection. When you sorted out the copy problem and not manage to burn it to a disc, come back and will give you advice if you need.