dbminter

Life happens. Yeah, the Initializing, Writing LeadIn, and Finalizing steps are somewhat random in terms of how long they can take from burn to burn. Sometimes they're quick, sometimes not so much. Just let them run, as you did.

Good! Glad it worked. That it was the drive in question and not the disc. I had figured it was, most likely, a drive issue, as opposed to the disc not being readable.

Depends on what you mean by "pull the file without corruption." Are you getting any kind of errors from ImgBurn? If so, what are they? And is this on the ASUS you said you had to try?

It's hard to say for certain. Could be a fault in the hardware or it could simply be the laser in the unit isn't very good to begin with. Since it can read some CD-RW but not most of the others you tested, that's more odds on average a fault in the device. However, you wouldn't be able to tell unless you got another one of these units and tested it. Otherwise, it would be down to the laser used in the device. It's having a reflectivity issue reading those CD-RW's. Which would mean if you wanted to use those particular CD-RW's, you'd have to try a different model of drive.

For anyone else looking for a similar solution, there's a Guide that explains this fairly well:

I did a little digging into your MATSHITA drive. It's a slim model drive, but it doesn't appear to be external. Did you put this drive in an external enclosure yourself? It could be just that someone put that model into an enclosure for you and sold it that way.

You're best off getting a different make and model USB drive. That way you have a better shot and of determining if the disc itself might have gone bad. Also, as I said, if you're not certain your drive is USB 3.0, although as a BD, it should be, you may want to check that it's connected to a USB 3.x port and make sure.

As I said, try a different drive. Since it's USB, you can always swap it out for another.

From those other screenshots, it's not an issue with G: so forget about that. If you're curious, it wouldn't be your Google drive but a physical drive connected to your system. If you wanted to fix it, it's not exactly a newbie issue. It requires reformatting G: for NTFS which would delete everything off of G. So, you'd have to copy all of G: contents to some sort of backup, format G: as NTFS, and then copy all of the G: contents backup back to the newly formatted G:. However, as I said, that's just FYI as it doesn't matter here. I've never seen a Track Following Error before, but it's indicative that your drive could not read the disc you put in into it. You'd either need to try a different drive or maybe the disc is damaged and cannot be read. Now, I did notice D:, your Blu-Ray drive, is listed as connecting at USB 2.0 speed. BD drives need USB 3.0 speed to properly work. However, you may actually have the BD drive connected by USB 3.0. There's a cosmetic bug in ImgBurn's last gold release related to its age where USB 3.0 speeds will display as being connected at USB 2.0 speeds.

Gonna need more than that. What exactly is "can't get the disk to load properly? entailing? ImgBurn does not recognize the disc is inserted? You can rip the game to an image file but the Steam deck won't play it? If it's that 2nd one, it's probably because you're forced to use file splitting. G: is formatted as FAT32, so it won't create single file ISO's, but split files at the 4 GB mark since the largest file size for FAT32 is 4 GB.

Well, there was a beta release about 3 years ago. So, the software is still "actively developed."

Whenever I have a source file trying to create a CUE that ImgBurn throws back an error on, the first thing I do is convert it to an uncompressed WAV file and try again with that WAV file. Do a web search for audio converter applications and see what looks best to you. I use freac Free Audio Converter, but I've also used something just called Free Audio Converter in the past.

I don't understand the question about VIDEO_TS at the end. It would only case playback problems on DVD players if you DIDN'T have a VIDEO_TS folder in the root directory of the disc you're attempting to play. However, if you're asking if you need to create an ISO first for VIDEO_TS contents to get to play on a DVD player and if you can just Write contents directly to a recordable DVD in ImgBurn, I can't see why that wouldn't work. But, if you don't want to waste a WORM disc testing that, you can attempt a test burn to a rewritable DVD disc first and test that on the player. It would have to be a DVD-5 to test, though, unless you compressed the DVD-9 first.

I had said it could possibly be a false positive for "data." I tried reading a data label side in my setup, but all I got was an expected unable to read anything return message.

How do you explain ImgBurn returning 33.3 GB capacity on a "label" side? That's why I didn't recognize it as a label side.

The only successful overburn to a CD-R I ever got was over 20 years, back before 80 minute CD-R was possible. I managed to burn 79 minutes onto whatever the standard CD-R run time was then.

I will concede to your 2nd point. TY is an in name only product that CMC makes now under it's CMC Pro line. However, my first point is entirely valid, born out by 3 different cake stack tests. Tested over the course of months. Plus, Verbatim has a past of changing the manufacturing processes of its "high" quality media. Years ago, they altered the production of DataLife Plus DVD-R so they no longer worked with the the LG WH16NS60 until LG updated the firmware. My "wrong" information comes from 25 years of burning optical media. So, you're right, I know about what I'm saying.

Yeah, you must do a Full format the first time on unformatted rewriteable media before you can Quick format it or write to it. (Technically, a Full format is a full write to all sectors.) Glad it worked out for you! I didn't think it would help, as I said before. So, I'm glad it did work.

I notice a Format was "started" (I never quite understood that designation.) but not completed. I've noticed many years ago, about 20, that Nero applications would write to rewriteable DVD's in such a way. While those discs were readable/playable, they always did perform rather oddly. So, once I copied those, I fully formatted them in ImgBurn. Try that, but first copy the contents off of the DVD+RW, unless you don't mind losing them to the full format. If you're going to copy the contents, I don't recommend making an image of the disc first, given what happened before with that other multi-session disc. Just copy the contents off of it in File Explorer. In Write mode in ImgBurn, there's a little disc icon with an erase to the left of the Test mode check box. Press that and choose Full.

I can't say for certain on this issue, but given the general issues you've reported thus far using this drive, I'd be down to blaming the drive for all of these things. But, to tackle the posted issue, did you format this DVD+RW yourself in the drive? i.e. was it unformatted when it was given to you? Either way, you could try a Full format in ImgBurn in your own drive and see if that helps. I doubt it will, though. But, a full format would indicate a few other things, particularly if it takes a long time to format. An 8x DVD+RW takes under 10 minutes to fully format, so a 4x should, in theory, take a little under 20 minutes. If it takes a really long time to format, the problem is either with that disc or your drive doesn't play well with that particular make of DVD+RW. If it's either of those, not much you can do. If it's the former, throw it away. If it's the latter, only a firmware update could possibly fix it, meaning you'd have to try a different burner.

I can't quite tell from the what appears to be German in that screenshot, but it seems the returned results indicate the file has bundled PUP's, Potentially Unwanted Applications. While not technically viruses/malware, they can be installed without the user knowing and be a general pain. I believe this is the 2nd post regarding Mirror 1's hosting. Also, going by its file name listed in the screenshot, it does appear Mirror 1 is offering a wrapper, bundled with who knows what. @LIGHTNING UK! You may want to remove Mirror 1 from the list if this is the 2nd such post about it. In the meantime, if you haven't gotten a clean ImgBurn installer, select Mirror 7.

Where is the Table Of Contents (TOC) written onto a disc by ImgBurn? At the beginning of the burn and therefore, physically, at the inner edge of the disc or at the end of the burn and therefore, physically, at the outer edge of the disc? Thanks!

I've never disassembled an optical drive, so I've never seen inside one. I've handled many internal half height drives, just never seen their innards.

No. Depending on where you get it or how old the version is, it can be flagged as a virus or a potentially unwanted application. Unless you get the download from the ImgBurn repository itself, those other places offering it often put it in a wrapper with other software. That software can be benign, just installing other applications you don't want or can be potentially harmful. Most of that latter is unintentionally put there but can be present. Get the download from the official ImgBurn.com link for the "best" results: https://download.imgburn.com/SetupImgBurn_2.5.8.0.exe

I was not aware of this screw hack.