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I'm not entirely sure how I'd do that. I don't even know what speed this HDD is rated at. I believe it's a 7,200 RPM, but I don't know. I do think it's the Spectre/Meltdown BIOS update. I restored an image of Windows a bit back to test it, with nothing else installed, and it did the same thing with the HDD light.

That does help, thanks! I'm mostly concerned about this because of my most recent BIOS update to patch Spectre/Meltdown. I did take some noticeable hits. For instance, Freemake Video Converters conversion of 1 hour MP3's to MP4 video container files leaped from 2 hours for 4 of them to 8 hours! I'm also getting some slow down in creating image files in ImgBurn to HDD. However, my PC was bought in 2014, so its Spectre/Meltdown hit is going to be higher. However, I've been getting more and more buffer recovery hits lately burning media. That's because ever since I updated the BIOS, my HDD light stays on pretty all the time for extended periods of time. And it's constantly, pretty much, going off and on when it's not. So, the drive is being accessed more since the update. In fact, sometimes the access is so severe I have to restart the PC to "recover" from this slowing down. These buffer recoveries during Writes can last about 2 minutes. I'm just concerned that, some day, a write will never resume because the HDD is constantly being accessed.

So what does Average Disk Queue Length mean it says 1.0? 1.0 what? What are the potential consequences of disabling Buffer Recovery? Would it be a return to the days of buffer (I TYPOED BUGGER! ) underrun errors?

Thanks! Unfortunately, I couldn't check the Settings myself to see because I was formatting a BD-RE DL, which takes 90 minutes. I didn't think about just opening a 4th (I was actually formatting 3. ) instance of ImgBurn and checking the settings myself.

Freemake Video Converter, I think, can do the same thing. And it's "free." Better features, of course, cost. Also, I'd think any DVD player should play CD's, too. As long as the device supports displaying JPG and loading them from CD, it would work with CD's.

When creating an image file to disk, ImgBurn says in the bottom of the main interface windows "Writing Image...". Sometimes, this message disappears and is very briefly replaced by another message. However, it appears so swiftly, I don't know what it says. I believe I've made out the phrase "Data Storage Area," but I can't be sure. What exactly does this output message say and what does it mean? Thanks!

Sometimes, a Write operation is put on pause when some kind of disk read Threshold is reached. The target for resumption, I believe, is 1.000. What exactly does 1.000 mean? 1.000 what? Also, not that I want to do it, but is this Threshold value a constant set in ImgBurn or is it a variable the user can designate? Or can this even be turned off somehow? Thanks!

Pioneer did a somewhat similarly silly thing with their tech support with me recently. I told them their BD-209M and D series drives don't recognize Ritek 6x DVD-RW when inserted. (Most drives don't, anyway. Only LiteOn DVD and LG BD do.) They forwarded me a PDF of all MID's their drive supports, because they said not all Ritek media were supported. The PDF contained the MID of the discs they said it supports, but doesn't. When I pointed this out to them, the best I got was they said they'd forward it to the engineers. Now, it is possible that a BD drive might support BD-R XL/TL but not BD-RE XL/TL. My first DVD+R drive was an HP that only supported DVD+R, not DVD+RW. They said it would eventually support DVD+RW with a firmware update and then later finally had to admit they were lying because the drive laser was never designed to support DVD+RW!

I'm not entirely sure, but I think if ImgBurn does a Format before a Write to an unformatted rewritable disc, it does not eject the tray after Format is finished and before Write starts. I'm only going by memory here, but I think that's the case. If there's not such an option, I'd like for there to be one to eject the tray after Formatting is finished but before Write starts. On my Pioneer BDR-209D, when it formats before writing Ritek 8x DVD+RW, it seems to want to fail on Verify. If I manually do the Format before the Write and let the program eject the disc after Formatting and then do the Write manually after reinserting the disc, it doesn't seem to do this. So, though it probably shouldn't make a difference, it seems in this case that ejecting after Format but before Write might make a difference for me. Thanks!

Yeah, the optical disc market is pretty much dying. So, I also doubt we'll ever see a development of BD-RE discs so they write faster than 2x. It's been like 10 years since the introduction of recordable BD, and we're still only at 2x for BD-RE. But, it does beat 1x. Man, I can remember the days of DVD writing at 1x back in 2002. You'd spend 59 minutes of your 1 hour write time, only to get a buffer underrun error at the very end and lose all that time and a disc. Buffer underrun protection was one of the best technologies ever put into optical burners.

I've never heard of those two drives by their ID string. Maybe they're junk? Are they slim model drives? If so, that might explain it, as they're junk. Since you're using the quality Verbatim media, the problem is something to do with your drive. It doesn't like those discs for whatever reason. You could try disabling SPTD and see if that helps That can cause read problems, where you're getting this failure.

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I recently went through an issue with someone else in another thread over their use of WinCDEmu. It didn't seem that that software was very good. But, give it a shot and you may like it. Although with a name like WinCDEmu, I would question whether it mounts DVD/Blu-Ray images or not. For reading certain discs? I've never used a Plextor drive before so I don't know if they're any better for any particular use. I wouldn't think they'd be any better than anything else for specific purposes. Although some types of drives are necessary for burning XBox copies, but I've never had an XBox so I don't know from experience. Just from what I've read on these boards.

If you're going to use Virtual CloneDrive, it doesn't natively support audio CD's as BIN/CUE as far as I've been able to figure out. It supports .CCD files, so you'd need to add the CCD option to the File Layout in the Read options in ImgBurn so it creates CCD/IMG file sets for mounting in a Virtual CloneDrive virtual drive. Alcohol 120% may not be desirable because it installs an extra layer of software for optical drives that can cause an impact hit to optical disc reading. Interestingly enough, I use both pieces of software, because sometimes ImgBurn won't read certain CD's based on their sessions/gap info, like some Playstation CD's and other discs. Alcohol will read them, so if I ever need those read to an image file, I'll install Alcohol, read the disc to an image, and then uninstall Alcohol.

Yeah, the support of virtual drives natively in Windows 10 is spotty. For instance, I don't think it properly plays audio CD's as BIN/CUE. It does natively support ISO for DVD, though, I think. That's why I use Virtual CloneDrive. Alcohol 120% Free Edition is also a viable option.

So, if you have CCD File Layout checked and ImgBurn saves the BIN as an IMG, will ImgBurn be unable to read a disc with multiple sessions?

Is there a reason that there is no Create CCD File function under Tools because the BIN would have to be renamed IMG? I was wondering because there are Create CUE, DVD, and MDS Tools, but not CCD, even though ImgBurn can create CCD/IMG file sets on reading a CD.

I think audio CD will always create BIN/CUE, unless you have CCD checked under the File Layout. Then, the BIN is renamed IMG. I use CCD for compatibility with Virtual CloneDrive, so I'm not too familiar with BIN/CUE.

ISO for DVD. As far as I know, BIN/CUE is only used for audio CD's, possibly data CD's. However, ImgBurn should make the right choice based on your media for you, as far as I know.

No, I've never had any of the gold based (Actually, they're silver based. Gold branded surface, but the recordable layer is made of silver.) CD-R's. The only experience I've had is with TY, Verbatim, and various companies releasing CMC, which I don't do business with anymore. Well, I do business with Verbatim, even though their Life CD-R are CMC junk. I don't think I ever used a Verbatim CD-RW, so I can't say. My CD-RW are Memorex, but since they're 24x, Mitsubishi made them instead of the usual CMC Memorex CD junk. My first CD-RW were also Memorex, back when Memorex made a quality product, circa 2002.

He could create a DVD Audio disc with a WAV that's too big to fit on a CD. First, define "too big." Do you mean its file size is too big to fit on a CD? If so, then, you'll need a DVD to fit it. Are you trying to create an Audio CD with this WAV? If so, the file size may be too large to fit on a CD, but as long as the WAV file is under 80 minutes, you can use Create CUE in ImgBurn to burn an Audio CD. If you're trying to create an Audio CD that plays in a CD player, you'll need to use a CD media. If the WAV file is too long, in terms of playing time, there's little you can do. You can try overburning an Audio CD, but I've rarely gotten that to work and you need certain hardware that supports it. I got one Audio CD overburned once, but it was only over by like 3 seconds. If your WAV is too long, then you can try creating a DVD Audio disc. This just takes your WAV file and makes fancy, long playing DVD menus of the audio. You can't navigate them except by chapter breaks, though. I don't know what else creates DVD Audio as I use Roxio Creator whenever I have to do that. If you want this WAV to play on a DVD player that supports playing audio container files like WAV, then just burn the WAV to a DVD file. If you still want to fit this WAV on a CD and you don't need need to play a CD in an audio CD player and you don't mind playing this WAV as a video container, you could convert the WAV to something like video MP4, AVI, MPG, etc. Freemake Video Converter will do this.

I used to use Taiyo Yuden CD-R all the time. Had to switch to Verbatim DataLifePlus after they closed up shop. Under the JVC/TY merger, JVC released some BD-RE with the TY name, even though TY never released any BD media itself. Guess who actually made them? Yep! CMC! I used to swear by Optiarc, but they eventually, IMO, went pretty bad and I switched over to LiteOn. I used to swear by LiteOn then, but they went downhill, too. Their DVD writers have an annoying tendency. Every once in a while, they will add pauses in the playback of DVD Video that are not layer break pauses. You'd burn an image and get one of these pauses, usually at the start of a VTS. Then, you'd burn the same image, and get a fine burn. This carried over to my first BD drive, also made by LiteOn, but it was much worse. 2 out of 3 DVD's did this. And LiteOn's BD drive was junk; stopped writing to BD-RE after 3 months. And now LiteOn doesn't make BD drives as far as I know, so what does that tell you?

Sort of like Taiyo Yuden. It seems that after they left the optical disc business, CMC might have bought their name to slap their inferior quality product on. I don't know if they did that for sure or not, but if they did, it's pretty low. Buying a good name merely for its reputation and sell crap with it.

Yes, the whole half drive versus full drive debate. I freely admit, I don't use the terms correctly. I use the term full height to describe 5.25 inch drives because they were the original size of optical drives. Then came the smaller size drive, "half" the height of the "full" height drive. Plus, I'm not THAT old enough to remember when 5.25 inch floppy drives weren't the same height as the original generation of optical drives. In fact, I only ever had 2 PC's that had 5.25 inch floppy drives on them before they were supplanted by 3.5 inch floppy drives. I had 2 Verbatim BD-RE SL that they actually made and didn't farm out to CMC. But, starting a few years ago, I can't recommend Verbatim BD-RE SL because they're made by CMC. Yes, I recommend Pioneer as the only BD option. I do have an external ASUS BD drive that I would recommend, but they don't make it anymore. And the current ASUS model is junk. I tested two units of it and it destroys rewritable media! LG I only ever used because Pioneer borked the writing to 8x DVD+RW Ritek discs from firmware 1.33 to 1.34. Pioneer eventually fixed it 2 years later in 1.50, so I took out the LG and replaced it with a 2nd Pioneer unit. And LG is the only model that writes to 6x Ritek DVD-RW. Pioneer won't even read them. It doesn't recognize a disc is inserted. The ASUS will read them, but not write them properly.

I believe this is the thread http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?/topic/25151-can-someone-recommend-a-blu-ray-drive-that-is-known-to-work-with-m-discs-bdxl-discs-and-with-imgburn/ but I don't think Sony BD-RE TL were used. I believe Verbatim and Milleniata BD-R TL were at issue in it.