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If it asks to place a layer break, then it can't be under 4 GB. Interesting that the LBA % asks for 100. Hm. That's some bizarre and apparently shoddy ISO if it is indeed 1.) under 4 GB and 2.) asking to place a layer break on DVD-5 contents. In Write mode, open the ISO for burning but don't write it to anything. Just select the one LBA option and see what happens at that point. If the Write operation sits there waiting for you to start it, then the ISO apparently loaded okay. If it did load okay, post a screen shot of ImgBurn in Write mode waiting for you to start burning after loading the ISO.

Burn it as you normally would an ISO to any # of layers disc. Unless the settings were changed otherwise, the only difference is ImgBurn will detect the smaller size being attempted to be burned to a disc larger than required and prompt you if you're certain you want to "underburn."

Yeah, looks like over 50%. But, that's a good baseline. Thanks for gathering that data for me!

What is the time penalty for enabling the verify as you write a BD-R option? Does it double the burn time?

Technically, turning on an external player can "damage" it. Simply the act of passing electrical current from a completely powered off device can do that. It doesn't happen often, but it can do it, particularly as a device gets older and more usage. To more precisely answer your question, not "damage" it, per se. It can just cause the laser to wear out sooner because it requires more work of the laser to read scratched discs. The good news is most scratches can't be recovered from. It depends on the depth, length, number, and location of the scratches. However, a good rule of thumb is if the device keeps attempting to read scratches and doesn't error out/stop and you're getting very low read rates, I tend to stop the read operation after 30 minutes.

Oh, you'll drive yourself crazy trying to find out why computers do the arcane black magic things they do!

If you've used these Verbatim CD-R fine in the past and if you've been able to burn CD's fine for a measurable length of time, the answer, most likely, is the drive's reached the end of its life. Have you always used these SAME Verbatim CD-R? There are 2 different kinds: the high quality and the CMC trash. The CMC trash is sold under the Life Series and is found in brick and mortar stores. The high quality stuff is Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation and generally only sold in online stores under the brand DataLife Plus.

To put into comparable prices for apparent DataLife Plus Verbatim inkjet BD-R DL discs, Verbatim in the US apparently doesn't offer them, but Amazon.com has some importers of them from Germany, it seems. https://www.amazon.com/BD-R-DL-50GB-6X-pack/dp/B00QUFWMLE/ref=sr_1_8?crid=2YD46UKK561YZ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3gWpbZ2ekZxdGBgtizerJkg6mlALXJhbghE8QPjNkBI1nzy5SNQiPMJ2ejLoekEkaZbkFJTd8EUr8Zbb8RIzMvopV9xUavYMUGGubU6EsO9f91h_tc0aIPmQBAaWKmmyTEPfc77P3wkNzpiYmWT7vseQrNlYNvAcvcTR8jAOsk6CGa47unYygGdui8CtNHXxjv1Ro40j72A9bZ_ldb1Qy3wIk44F4uRzDGvR6KHbZzFsS3Op_PVoR9Ghd3FjqE9zDe8XOcBp9BfvfDgjn3oDNXTsamFXcPCNECfz8zUjO2v_goi38NVPB_EInfID6wr-aWMO_SUhnNYcLS_lnbbLDSMgDkaSdnxUTVSolyHm-88.5F4Ea3Q3xvERx-jnmuW2XgXaE99ewiv-4-sssQDRKXI&dib_tag=se&s=electronics&sprefix=verbatim+bd-r+datalifeplus%2Celectronics%2C277&xpid=-MHB3g-0TTjWO $71 US for 25 6x max discs. But, they're thermal printable, which makes them more expensive and less easier to print on.

Admittedly, my knowledge of Blu-Ray Video discs is not as extensive as DVD Video discs, so I can only go so far. It depends on what these ISO's are. If the ISO's have BDMV folders in the root directory, then you can just burn the ISO in Write mode to BD discs. Then, they should play in a standard Blu-Ray player by popping them in if they are Blu-Ray Video compliant. You can also insert them in your LG external PC drive and play them with any Blu-Ray player software, so the LG drive not have compatibility issues with the discs you burned to. I am not very familiar with VLC either, but I believe it may support playing DVD Video ISO files natively, so it might support playing BD Video ISO's natively. You'd have to open one of these ISO's in VLC and see if it plays. If VLC doesn't play these ISO's, either VLC doesn't support Blu-Ray Video ISO's natively for playback or the ISO's are not Blu-Ray Video compliant.

If the content is visible on your PC, then it's not the content or ImgBurn. It's your physical player. It possibly doesn't like those discs you used. You might benefit from this thread, too: There have been demonstrable drops in quality in the branded blue and white Verbatim BD recordable discs. That may be your issue here. Also, to rule some things out, what exactly are you writing to these BD-R DL? A BD Video or container files such as MKV or MP4? If it's the former, then yes, you should just pop in the disc and get it to play something unless the player can't read the discs due to their quality. If you're burning container files to the disc and expect the player to play them by just popping in the disc, then that most likely won't work. At best, you must load them with some kind of navigation software on the player.

PUA, I'm guessing, is Potentially Unwanted Application. If you download the application from somewhere other than the ImgBurn link itself, they probably wrapped all kinds of garbage around the installer. In the old days, it was all kinds of unwanted toolbars for your web browser. A PUA is technically not necessarily malware. It could be a begnin application, just something you didn't necessarily want installed along with the application you intended to install. Of course, that something could be possible actual malware, too...

I also wish I didn't have to buy inkjet printable discs to get DataLife Plus ones, but those are the only DataLife Plus BD-R. BD-R DL were always more expensive than I thought they should be. I never did any actual price comparison, but I'd think they should be on par with BD-R just doubled since they have an additional layer in them. But, they don't seem to be. They seem to be exorbitantly higher than they should be. Plus, given the results I've seen with BD-RE DL and people who have posted on here about BD-R DL, they seem to be more unreliable, so definitely not worth the higher investment.

All 42 Verbatim DataLife Plus inkjet printable BD-R burned a week ago successfully completed manual Verifies. So, I am relatively confident these are high quality discs. And if I had to hazard a guess, if there are DataLife Plus BD-R DL, even if they are inkjet printable and therefore cost more for a feature you most likely won't use, they would be better quality than any blue and white branded Verbatim BD-R DL. I am paying more for the inkjet printable feature which I most likely won't use, but it beats paying for crap that is terrible quality.

18 discs passed manual Verify thus far. 24 left to go. I don't foresee any future problems, but that's why I do these checks.

I got similar results with my last batch of branded blue and white Verbatim BD-R. The first one completed Write and Verify without errors. Then, 3 failures in a row to complete Write. On both an ASUS and an LG, so it was the media. So, I made sure to image that one successful Write and Verify to reburn to a different disc in the future when I got good media. BTW, a tip for the future. You can copy and paste the contents of error window dialogs in ImgBurn. When an error window pops up, just make the error window the focus and use CTRL+C to copy the contents of the error message to the Clipboard. Then, you can Paste that info, say, to a text file or just directly into a post on these forums.

Well, you'd be surprised. Zip Drives, introduced in 1995, are pretty much obsolete, yet you can still find them in use today. You can still get after market replacement parts 30 years later. I think the primary problem will be finding HUMANS in 1,000 years time! LOL

I decided to get a general preview of what the manual Verify runs might give me on Sunday, when I plan to start them. I manually Verified the first 2 oldest discs. Being the 2 oldest discs, done first, they'd have the higher likelihood of going bad first if they are like the first batch of branded blue and white Verbatim BD-R that would complete Writes and Verifies but would be partially unreadable after a few days. Both of those 2 oldest discs passed manual Verifies.

Well, my first step would be to get some Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO discs (NOT Life Series.) or Taiyo-Yuden/CMC Pro discs, but you wouldn't be able to get them with just $5 American. You can only find the high quality stuff like that in online stories, usually.

From what you posted from the change log history of the firmware TL/QL support for reading and writing was available and one point but removed at a later point. Whether it was ever restored or not is up for debate, but it seems unlikely they would restore something after taking it away. And the most likely reason the TL and QL support was removed was so that no one would even DARE to think about copying a 4K Blu-Ray.

I would also check that the extension is correct in File Explorer as it could mean you may need to rebuild your icon cache.

That last screenshot says it all. BD-R XL and BD-RE XL read and write are not supported. So, reading TL and QL media is not possible on this drive/firmware and writing isn't supported either.

I would blame this: Disc ID: MBI01RWG 20 I've never heard of that DID before so it's probably a cheap media disc. Or it's a type of DID that your HL-DT burner doesn't like.

I had a backlog of lots of data to archive to BD-R. I had some partition backups from January 1st that couldn't be copied to BD-R at the time because the old Verbatims weren't trustworthy anymore and I needed to order some of the DataLife Plus ones to test and see if they were good. There was a 300 GB and 500 GB backup I was able to use with 42 discs from this 50 disc cake stack and a 500 GB and 800 GB partition backup still left to do. See, I HAVE to do these kinds of things so others don't have to. These are the kinds of things that happen to me. Like a batch of Verbatim BD-R that would complete Write and Verify but be partially unreadable a few days later. I only happened to "luck" out noticing it early before I used more than 11 discs, but I did permanently lose some data as a result.

I've completed 14 more successful Writes and Verifies. That makes up the majority of the discs in this cake stack. As I previously said, now I just need to wait until Saturday and perform a mass manual Verify on each of these 42 discs. Then, I should feel relatively comfortable stating the DataLife Plus inkjet BD-R are still of high quality.

ImgBurn doesn't do any conversion. BIN/CUE is how ImgBurn generally saves Audio CD's. Data CD's/mixed mode stuff like Sega Saturn games would be saved as disc image files since BIN/CUE is only necessarily for Audio CD's from ImgBurn's point of view. Whatever would have created Sega Saturn games as BIN/CUE probably shouldn't have done that in the first place.