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Playback test of DVD Video of Ritek RICOHJPN-W21-01 8x DVD+RW: Passed.

Playback test of DVD Video of Ritek RICOHJPN-W21-01 8x DVD+RW: Passed.

It was, indeed, VenToy I was referring to.

I remember doing a search online towards the end of last year for something to make ISO's from bootable flash drives. I had this application that would create a bootable flash drive and then you could select ISO's from the flash drive for booting from. That way, you don't need multiple flash drives, just multiple ISO's on one flash drive. I found nothing that could make ISO's, like you said. And as I said, Macrium Reflect does not create ISO's. It instead uses a proprietary format. Is there a particular reason why you need ISO specifically and that any of those other program's read file formats aren't suitable?

If you have a bootable ISO you downloaded and wrote to a USB flash drive, why do you want to create a new bootable ISO? Did you add files to the flash drive and want them rolled up into a new bootable ISO? If so, for that, I use a piece of paid software called UltraISO. It allows you to inject files into an existing ISO.

Yeah, sorry I couldn't help. As I said, I've never successfully gotten a bootable ISO made by Build mode.

Well, very few people actually patrol the forums much anymore. So, you're probably not likely to get another answer. In the meantime, if you haven't tried this already, see this Guide: Unfortunately, this guide is fairly old and it was what I followed to try and create bootable ISO's that never booted.

With creating a bootable ISO from a set of files and a bootable image extract: nothing. What I do is with a bootable flash drive, I use a piece of paid software called Macrium Reflect to image the flash drive. It doesn't create ISO's though, but a proprietary file format it can write to flash drives.

ImgBurn doesn't have such an option. In fact, I fail to see the practical use of such an option in the other program. Unless that other application is some kind of file backup one and you'd need multiple spanned discs where you'd want all available space used.

Unfortunately, I never got a successful bootable ISO to ever be created by ImgBurn's Build mode.

I never pay attention to PI rates. In fact, I've rarely even looked at those graphs in the past. As far as I know, there's no way to determine at what speed a disc was written to. If the Log is old enough, you might find its burn rate in ImgBurn. The closest you can find post burn is to determine the encoded write strategies on the disc, but there's no guarantee a maximum write rate is what is honored by the drive. Or if the user used a slower burn rate.

I never had an issue with 8x burnt DVD+R DL's on my the PS2 unit I played them on.

You could try, but, again, I doubt it would work, changing the I/O interface in Tools.

The only thing I can see that might be problem is it's a slim drive. Slim drives generally are just junk. You're using quality MCC media, so it's not like you're using CMC junk. You could try checking for a firmware update, but I doubt that will help. In Write mode, right click on D : and choose the last item in the context menu to check for firmware update. Barring that, you could try getting a half height drive and putting it in a USB enclosure.

The only two issues I can name off the top of my head that have been addressed in the beta releases since 2013 are it correctly identifies the Windows version it's running on if you're on Windows 10/11 and it correctly recognizes devices connected by USB 3.x as USB 3.x instead of USB 2.x.

For some practical real world tests, 2 or 3 years ago, I copied over my DVD's that had been written onto other media that were not MCC DVD-R so they would be on the proven higher quality media. Some were unreadable. Seems Maxell's weren't the most reliable. But, most that weren't CMC or bottom of the barrel stuff were still readable after 18 or 19 years. And some of those failed reads may be down to the WH16NS60. I did not know at the time I did this project that the LG drives tended to sometimes not read discs other drives would. I just inferred given their age that the discs had become unreadable. They might, in fact, have been readable on a non LG device.

I use BD-R because it will last longer than an SSD. But, you have to have 40 BD-R to equal the storage capacity of one 1 TB USB SSD. So, you run into a storage space issue. But BD-R cannot accidentally have content erased, as you said. However, given the steady decline of optical media, there's no guarantee they will still make optical drives to read your backups from some years in the future if you need them. A USB SSD should work as long Windows has the necessary drivers for it. I use the USB SSD's for "temporary" storage, and by that I mean content I only intend to retain for a year at the most. USB SSD's write faster so for those backups, I don't need longevity and faster write speeds are preferable. I'm talking things like monthly and yearly file backup archives and monthly and yearly partition image backups. And they do make 1 TB flash drives now. While slower writing than a USB SSD, they are just as universally ubiquitous. As long as Windows has the necessary drivers, it should just be a matter of inserting a flash drive and it works. And they take up less space than a USB SSD. Plus, you need a cable to access the data on a USB SSD. With a flash drive, it has its own connection constantly. I use CD-R exclusive for Audio CD and DVD-R/DVD+RW/DVD+R DL for DVD Video. All of my other optical disc backups are to BD-R because they write faster and they last much longer than dye based recordable media. Plus, they're like $1 each in bulk. I don't paying a little extra for the speed benefits and the longer life.

More test results: CD Audio disc playback tests passed on the following media: Memorex CD-R Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO inkjet printable CD-R Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO branded surface CD-R Memorex 24x Ultra High Speed CD-RW

There is no specific time frame for how long a beta period lasts. The beta period basically lasts as long as it is between the last public release and the next. For instance, the last beta release was November 2021. The primary reason for the long span since the last public release is simply because LUK has a job. ImgBurn is a side project he does on his free time.

It also depends on how you copied the backup files, like if you just did a direct copy or used an archive application. For instance, my file backup application, Macrium Reflect, writes an index of all files to the end of the backup. So, even if the backup is split across multiple discs, I just need to read in one portion of one file from one disc to get the list of files. Then, it asks for Disc X if I need to restore anything instead of asking to read in all discs in sequence until it gets to the files necessary. I mostly use USB SSD's for backups nowadays. I use optical media mostly for things like CD Audio and DVD Video, discs I have to write to specific kinds of media. I do backup a few things to BD-R because of the sizes and faster speeds.

Playback test of Audio CD of Memorex 24x Ultra High Speed CD-RW: Passed. This is the last of the major tests, save for 6 DVD+RW playback tests, but I don't know when I'll have the chance to test those. And a few small tests, like Audio CD track extraction.

Playback test of Audio CD of Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO branded surface CD-R: Passed.

Playback test of Audio CD of Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO inkjet printable CD-R: Passed.

Playback test of Audio CD of Memorex CD-R: Passed.

Playback test of Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO inkjet printable 16x MCC DVD-R: Passed.