Maybe you guys can help me sort out whether or not I have bad media or a burner that is starting to go out?
In the beginning, everyone was told to use CloneCD but I have always preferred to use ImgBurn for the verify features. I have been trying to burn a few backups and have had mixed luck... some will burn 100% and verify 100% whereas others will make burn 100% but will fail at the 50% mark.
I purchased 2 packs of 25 RiDATA DVD+R DL 8x about a year ago (burning at 1x or 2.4x) and the first batch had a few coasters (5 or so), some of which were my fault but it appears that I am tossing a more in the trash this time. The other discs I was using are ones that I picked up on closeout, Nexxtech 8x which are currently having a good burn ratio 4:4 so far... I currently don't have any Verbatim discs at the moment since I had such good luck last time with the RiDATA ones.
My burner, Lite-On SHM-165H6S is from 2006 and it has the latest firmware that was applied, HS0E and book-type is set to DVD-ROM.
Even though these are different images that I am burning, I am selecting the .dvd file to burn the game. If I select the .dvd file, does the setting need to be enabled under Settings > Write > Options > Layer Break > User Specified > Sectors in L0: 1913760 ?
UNSUCCESSFUL write that happened this morning (Ritek RiDATA):
I 07:44:29 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started!I 07:44:29 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (6.0, Build 6001 : Service Pack 1) I 07:44:29 Total Physical Memory: 3,135,248 KB - Available: 1,892,316 KB I 07:44:29 Initialising SPTI... I 07:44:29 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 07:44:51 Found 1 DVD-ROM, 1 DVD