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I would but unfortunately my computer is a laptop so it would be pretty difficult for me to do considering I have very little experience with that sort of thing

Wow I think I am in way over my head here... Thanks for all the awesome help - I just don't know exactly what I'm doing and would probably end up screwing my computer up more than helping it, so I'm probably just going to try out an external burner and see how it works out. Anyone have any recommendations on what type/brand of dual-layer burner I should look for?

after looking around with SIW, I'm pretty sure the drive is connected to an SATA controller made by Intel past that, I don't really know what I am doing with sorting the drivers or knowing what I'm looking for, so maybe you can help me out by telling me what I'm looking for from these screenshots from SIW and again, thanks for any help any of you can offer me, it is much appreciated

It says "Querying Current 'Booktype' Setting..." at the bottom of the window I think SATA, but I'm not really sure. I have no idea who makes the chipset. I bought this laptop custom made from alienware. Is there anywhere I could go in My Computer or something to find that info? Here's a screenshot of the ImgBurn window, maybe some of you can better tell by actually seeing it

Yesterday I attempted to burn my first xbox 360 game - and got some unexpected errors. First off, I unfortunately have no idea what brand/type of burner I have. It is a laptop built by alienware so all I know is that it is supposedly a dual-layer burner (the drive is labeled as a "SATA Optiarc DVD RW A (SCSI)" if that helps). I am using good 2.4x Verbatim DVD+R DL disks, so I know the disks aren't the problem. So I load the program, put the blank disk in, and set the layerbreak and the write speed. Since I don't know what I am doing with changing the booktype I just leave it alone. Once I click start burn, the program never starts to actually burn - it just stops. Furthermore, it makes my computer freeze up - I am not able to cancel the burn or even open my drive, and so I am forced to restart my computer to get it back to normal. Here's my log to hopefully give you an idea of what's going on: I 17:08:27 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started! I 17:08:27 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (6.0, Build 6001 : Service Pack 1) I 17:08:27 Total Physical Memory: 2,095,404 KB - Available: 859,576 KB I 17:08:27 Initialising SPTI... I 17:08:27 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 17:08:27 Found 1 DVD