Well, I ran into ImgBurn after "discovering" the annoyance that Nero refuses to remove its 16-character volume name limit. As a replacement software, ImgBurn was very pleasing with all its confusing but still helpful options, especially the little progress bar that actually tells you how many characters are left available for volume names of different file formats. I salute you! But, sadly, it all stopped there. When I finally tried to burn my first DVD using ImgBurn, everything appeared fine and dandy. But, when the disc was burned and verified, my DVD burner detected the DVD as a "blank" (well, that's how it appeared in My Computer as "CD Drive" instead of a volume name). Also, my computer would freeze for a few seconds before refreshing My Computer. Yet, if I put the same disc into my simple disc reader, everything is detected fine. My first question is... what happened? Oh, I forgot one more thing. Before switching to ImgBurn, I also needed to burn a similar 4.3 GB RAR file using the UDF format with the same disc from the same batch of DVDs (Go Verbatim MCCs!). I used Nero for that and everything was fine there. But, ImgBurn didn't burn the same result, as I have said. Attached is a LOG file containing ImgBurn's original log of the session. At the bottom of the log, I added the "Device" information shown in ImgBurn before the session and some extra information about the burned DVDs found through DVDInfoPro (Note: the very last DVDInfoPro entry is the information for a blank DVD). Well, there's the first problem.
The second problem has to do with CD-R. Again, before ImgBurn, all my other burning software burned CDs fine (can't say perfectly, since I'm more of a dunce in this stuff). But, this time, when I try to burn a CD in ImgBurn, it would proceed until it reaches the "Writing Lead-In" stage, when my computer would freeze, usually at about 6 seconds into the process. When my computer regains responsiveness, I would get a message saying there was an I/O device error. I would click "Retry" several times (the message would reappear) but to no avail. Finally, I would just accept defeat and choose "Cancel". (Then, ImgBurn surprised me by saying "Would you like me...", strange how you guys make this thing have a personality ._.) Thereafter, I decided to see if the problem was my burner by trying a different program, Alcohol 120%. I used UltraISO to create an ISO and used Alcohol 120% to burn it. Flawless. I then assumed ImgBurn had a problem with its "Build" function, so I used ImgBurn to burn the same ISO. Same I/O error. Again, attached is a LOG file containing the same information provided for my DVD issue, except there's no other burned CD for comparison. Woo, that's two.
Heh, sorry if this was much, but I kind of hated to let go of Nero until I found ImgBurn and I didn't really want to let go of it either. Anyhow, "burning" probably hates me, since for most of my years of computing, it would burn my mind instead of the discs... Thanks. Oh, "thanks" to you guys, too .
P.S. I've tried searching around Google, but I couldn't really find anything. Couldn't even find another person with the same model burner as I do. Oh yeah, I think the LOG files offer a good amount of information, but if you guys need more, just ask. I'll be lagging your servers by refreshing this page like 50 times per second...manually, until someone responds > (JK, DON'T BAN ME T.T). Thanks again.
DVD_R.log
CD_R.log