dbminter

Yeah, I, too, would have said try using something other CMC. Besides, just because their burns are successful, in a few years time, those CMC discs will probably be unreadable because they're junk media.

I'd also not use CMC media. They make the worst optical discs out there. Still, 6 years is 6 years. I've rarely gotten 2 years out of a drive, but I'm coming close to getting that with my Pioneer Blu-Ray burner in January.

Well, they call it the hamburger icon, but it's actually the icon that is made of 3 horizontal bars. It's right below the X in the upper right corner that closes Chrome. It's just to the right of the address bar. If you don't have that icon, you have something seriously messed up.

Assuming it hasn't been somehow disabled by whatever hijacked Chrome, you can open an incognito window two ways. First, there is normally a command in the "hamburger icon" in the upper right of Chrome. It's the third command in the list. Otherwise, you can open one with Ctrl+Shift+N.

Actually, turns out once I disabled AnyDVD, the number of tracks, 17, did eventually turn up in WinAmp when I reloaded the CD-RW. So, it appears to only be a problem when AnyDVD is enabled.

Would having AnyDVD enabled when burning an Audio CD from a .CUE file to a CD-RW causing the write to fail? I had it enabled when I burned a .CUE file of MP3's to a CD-RW as an Audio CD and it didn't burn right. It got stuck in the Verify at the Analysing phase. Then, when I tried playing the disc, it only showed 5 tracks when 17 were written to. I repeated the write with a different CD-RW and AnyDVD disabled and it worked. So, it could be that that CD-RW went bad. However, I do know that rewritable DVD's will fail at the Verify phase when writing DVD-Video images with AnyDVD enabled. It seems to be a similar situation with CD-RW's. Does anyone know if this is the case with CD-RW's, too?

I know some DVD+R DL images have padding added to the file. I was wondering if double layer Blu-Ray images have padding added to them, too?

Hardly anyone actually manufactures their own media anymore. Philips making TDK media is not impossible as TDK makes Verbatim's inkjet BD-RE DL. Anyway, yes that is the Media ID/MID. I don't understand something you said. You said it's failing to burn yet an .ISO file works fine. What is it you're burning then in ImgBurn if not an ISO file? Also, if you're going to use one over the other, don't use the CMC media. CMC makes the worst optical media out there. Now, you seem to indicate you had no problems before and it suddenly pops up out of the clear blue. Since you're getting the same errors on the Philips and CMC media, it seems more likely to me that your drive is the problem. It probably needs replacing. How long have you had it?

Got a chance to test a DVD-Video job on these UAE discs. I skipped the remaining Singapore disc and went to a UAE one to test with. It was about 5 GB of VIDEO_TS data but padded out to about an 8 GB image file. Write and Verify complete successfully. All the contents played on my PS3 fine. No skips. No problem at the layer break.

Can't answer in Spanish, sorry. There really are no settings you should need to change. The only thing you might want to do is burn at a lower speed than maximum. I've never had a problem using the maximum speed for burning DVD's but some people like to burn at slower speeds.

I can't answer if VLC doesn't like dual layer ISO's. Shouldn't matter, though. The MDS/layer breaks only matter to physical discs. Did you try loading both the ISO and the MDS in VLC? If you still can't get it resolved, what you can do is install Virtual CloneDrive and mount the MDS/ISO file as a virtual drive. Then, just play that virtual drive like a DVD in whatever media player you choose. You could also just copy the VIDEO_TS folders from the ISO's to HDD and load VIDEO_TS.IFO in the player of your choice. I'm rather surprised that out of 40 of 80 DVD's in your collection, only the 41st is your first dual layer DVD. So, there's probably something else going on there.

Came across a situation where I could test one of these UAE discs. I wrote an about 6.7 GB data image to one. It Wrote and Verified correctly. I then read that disc to an image file in another drive to test its integrity. I then mounted that image and verified the data against the original files on the HDD. They compared without error. So, this UAE disc appears to be good. However, it wasn't a DVD-Video so I can't say how well they may "play" since I've nothing to play. Also, the problems reported on Amazon.com were with random discs in their stacks. So, there's nothing to say I just didn't get a good disc to burn with. Plus, it's no guarantee your drive will like these discs. I can only report what I know. And from what I know now, these discs appear to be good.

Unfortunately, even if I did use the UAE discs, it wouldn't really help in this situation. I haven't used them yet. I can only tell you the MID, which I did. They are the same as the Singapores I used to use. However, just because they say MKM doesn't mean your drive will like them. See what I said earlier about my Pioneer drive. The branded Verbatims had the same MKM MID as the inkjet printable ones, but my Pioneer would not properly write to the inkjet ones until a firmware update was released. Then, it did complete Verifies. So, there's no guarantee your drive will like MKM's. However, you're better off using MKM's over CMC and other junk brands. For instance, your drive may not mind CMC but it's still no reason to use junk media just because Writes and Verifies complete. There's still the quality issue. That a CMC disc may not be readable after a few years. Like my experience with Ritek DVD+R DL. Over half of the few I tested were unreadable after 5 years. Verbatim MKM DataLife Plus DVD+R DL is the only high quality choice to go for when burning DVD+R DL. Still, doesn't mean your drive will necessarily like them. However, most problems with burning DVD+R DL's go away for people when they stop using junk media and switch to Verbatim MKM DataLife Plus DVD+R DL. Unfortunately, the only way you're going to know is you'll have to try it yourself. Your problem may not be media related. It could be the drive. However, you won't really know until you've tried quality media to see if it's the drive. Again, though, some people reported problems with the UAE made discs on Amazon.com. I still have one more Singapore disc left so I will have to go through that one before I even get to the UAE ones. If I can remember, I'll try to skip over the last Singapore and go straight to the UAE ones. I have this page tabbed in my browser to always open so I can remember to post my findings. However, just because my burn works doesn't mean they all will. The Amazon.com reviewers were posting problems that only some of the UAE discs in their stacks were problem burns. So, it may have been a quality control issue that has been fixed since then. I can't say as this is my first exposure to the UAE discs.

I don't understand why you didn't just use Read mode if you were trying to make a copy of the Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit DVD. Plus, I fail to see how changing one file will make the installer from Windows Ultimate 32 bit to Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. There's vast differences between the 32 bit and 64 bit installers of Windows. And I don't know why you'd want to mix 32 bit and 64 bit files.

I'm not entirely sure why you're using Build mode. Are you just trying to make a copy of the Windows 7 install DVD? What exactly are you building? What Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit files are you adding? What is the source of this bootimg you're using? Is it an external file? You maybe are adding too large a bootimg that is taking up the remaining 22%?

Yeah, you chose to Overburn. I've never seen an overburn to DVD that worked in my experience. Try a DVD+R DL. Also, don't use CMC MAG media. They're junk. I'd also not recommend Sony. Sony has made 95% junk since 2002. And if you're going to use DVD+R DL, Verbatim DataLife Plus MKM is the only way to go. You will only find CMC MAG Verbatim DVD+R DL in brick and mortar stores. You'll have to get them online.

Yeah, seems to me it's the drive that needs replacing. Your external has no problems with the discs so it's not the media. Your internal is reading bad burns it makes as good burns. One probably sure fire way to see is if you have an external enclosure you can put the internal drive in. If it still fails when plugged in as an external drive, it is most likely the internal drive causing the problem.

The MID on the UAE discs is MKM-003-00. This is the same MID on the good Verbatim DataLife Plus Mitsubishi DVD+R DL discs. However, I've not burned one of these yet.

My delivery of these United Arab Emirates DVD+R DL's should arrive today. I can then post if they still have the MKM MID on them. That would be good news as MKM is what you're looking for. However, be aware that just because the MID says something good doesn't mean your drive will like them. My Pioneer had no problem burning MKM 8x DVD+R DL that were branded with Verbatim's logo on them. However, the 8x MKM DVD+R DL with the exact same MID but were inkjet printable surfaces would not complete Verifies at the layer break. With a firmware update about a year later, the drive finally did support burning those inkjet DVD+R DL's. Just be aware of issues like that. Plus, I don't know of the quality of UAE made discs versus the Singapore discs I was used to. I still have 1 Singapore disc left so I have to use that one before I get to the UAE ones.

What's weird is the issue apparently keeps repeating itself even after you power cycle. Sometimes drives just need a power cycle to fix an issue. I forgot to mention that as something to try. But it apparently is an issue that goes away and keeps coming back, then?

I ran some tests. Seems the only thing AnyDVD interfered with was writing DVD-Video jobs to DVD+RW. I didn't run any BD tests. For whatever reason, the Verify does fail on DVD+RW, and maybe DVD-RW, too, right at the start. In fact, any future writes of DVD-Video images to that disc afterwards will fail until a full format is performed on it. DVD-R was fine.

If AnyDVD is resident when ImgBurn starts, there is an Info line in the log that it may interfere with Verification and should be disabled. Does this warning only apply to VIDEO_TS DVD-Video discs? Meaning, if I'm burning a data disc that is not a DVD-Video with a VIDEO_TS, will AnyDVD interfere with Verifying that data DVD?

Go into Read mode and make sure it's actually empty. Make sure there aren't actually any contents on the disc. Try inserting another one of them and see if it's the same as this one. Sometimes, especially with cheaper media, you actually gets packs that contain returned failed burns. If ImgBurn can't detect there's actually contents on the disc, then you've got a more serious problem. What's the MID on this disc? Could be your HP drive doesn't like that kind of MID. It may not see them as actual blanks.

I'm no expert in CDB errors. As I said, I never once got a DVD overburn to ever work, so I'd say it just doesn't work! It's not cheap disc quality because you're using Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation media, which is some of the best you can get. So, we can't recommend you try Verbatim DVD because you're already using that.

To be honest, I've never had a DVD overburn that ever succeeded. The only overburn I ever had that succeeded was an audio CD that was about just 30 seconds over the maximum allowable playing time. Also, if you would, copy and paste the log from the log window so we can get some other specifics about this particular burn that failed.