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Day 2 and more quicker updates, this time Freemake's applications.

It's already helped me! It told me there was a new Firefox update.

Yeah, I rarely look at the stickies.

Is this some kind of software to view .IBG files? I Googled it and it seems that is what BurnPlot does. I had never heard of it before.

I've added that page to my Firefox list of tabs that get opened every time I open FF. That way I can check the most recent postings over the last 24 hours. Thanks, this should help. Especially since Secunia can't be trusted anymore. It is good at finding updates but tends to tell you you still need to update them even after you've updated them!

I looked up the BDR-XD05 and one of the problems may be because it's a slim drive. Slim drives are notoriously error prone. If you're going to get an external drive, it should be a full size drive. I've not used a slim drive myself but from reports here and answers from other posters, slim drives are probably pretty much junk. The good thing about BD-RE is after the first format, even if you have a write that fails, there should be no need to reformat the disc. An erase should take care of that. Unless the drive is physically damaging the discs. Because a format takes about 45 minutes. 90 minutes if your drive supports that function my Pioneer doesn't where it takes twice as long to do a format.

I've 2 Pioneers, both the same drive, and they've been probably the best I've ever had. The older Pioneer is 2 years old and its only issue is sometimes when the eject button or an eject command is issued, it doesn't work on the first try. Well, there were initial problems burning DVD+R DL but those were eventually fixed a year later with a firmware update. By powering off the drive, I meant, if it's an internal drive, powering off the PC. If it's external, powering off the drive. The drive string of BDR-XD05 makes me think it's an external drive. But that's only a guess. Also, try restarting Windows. Powering off the PC would cycle Windows anyway since you have to shut down Windows, so you may as well just power off the PC entirely. If it's an external drive, cycle its power and then also restart Windows. The only other BD-R I ever tried were Memorex and Sony. Sony's are junk, as per their usual quality result. Memorex's are Ritek made which I had no burn problems with but I had playback issues with them on the Playstation 3. I've had no problems with the VERBAT-IM's on 2 LG's or my Pioneer. In my experience, LG's are fairly lousy readers and I believe they cause Ritek 8x DVD+RW to die before 20 rewrites. Unfortunately, you can't make an equation between something working on a BD-RE and then also working on a BD-R. However, it wouldn't hurt to have one BD-RE test. That way, if it fails on the BD-RE, too, you know there's something wrong with all BD media on this drive. It may work fine on a BD-RE but not on a BD-R. Plus, a full BD-RE test at its maximum 2x rate takes about 45 minutes to fill the entire disc, so it's fairly time consuming. Also, try seeing if there's a firmware update for this drive. In Write mode, right click on the drive in the destination drop down and choose the last option to check for firmware updates. If it is an external drive, be aware that the web site used for this check rarely finds the drive strings for external drives. I've never come across a firmware on that site for any external drive I've ever had. A firmware revision might improve your issue. As for a drive failing after so soon, it's not beyond the realm of possibility. I've had drives that only lasted 6 months before needing replacing. General time frame was a year. My first Pioneer is going on 2 years, which is a surprise to me. I once had a LiteOn DVD writer I had to return immediately after I got it. It wasn't writing properly from the moment I inserted it. My experience with that LiteOn, coupled with my first BD drive being a LiteOn that failed to write BD-RE after 3 months, and the fact that LiteOn's randomly add pauses to DVD+R DL video discs that aren't layer breaks swore me off of LiteOn.

How old is this drive? Have you burned many BD-R's before? It is entirely possible for a drive to work flawlessly on one media type but fail on another and still need replacing. In fact, my experience has been that when a drive needed replacing, it worked fine for other media but always failed for one particular type. For instance, no error on DVD-R but failing always on DVD+R DL. I've never had a single problematic burn with VERBAT-IMe media. It is entirely possible that your spindle may be bad but only at the 1/3rd mark does it start. I had my 2nd to last batch of DVD-R's where they were 16x but the first half only burned at 8x. The rest burned at 16x. Also, have you tried to power off the drive and powering it back on? A power cycle can sometimes clear up problems that have mysteriously popped up when things were working before. My experience has almost universally been that when things like this crop up, the drive needs replacing.

Yeah, you know, sometimes it just happens. Software settings get changed for no readily apparent reason. I had my automatic check for updates once turned off in Macrium Reflect. It was just randomly disabled. I enabled it again and everything was fine. I would never have noticed it had I not had a monthly manual list of web sites to check for updates. I check them because you can't trust automatic updates will find updates, as I just proved.

If you're a user of LibreOffice, please do me a favor. I think I've discovered a bug but when I tried to report it, they dismissed me as it couldn't possibly be there. Because they could never replicate it. I later discovered after my initial post that it only happens under a very specific circumstance, but when I told them, they just told me it can't be there, without even testing it again under the conditions I described. So, if you'd test it for me to see if it's there or if it's only on my system, I can put this issue to rest. In any version after 5.0.3.2, open Writer. Hold down the right ALT key (MUST be the right ALT key, not the left. The left ALT key works, NOT the right.) and try an ALT key shortcut, like ALT+F to open File. See if File opens or if, as it happens on my system, you simply get a lowercase f added to your Writer document. IF you can recreate this bug, then it IS a bug. Please report it to the LibreOffice bug people. IF I try to post again, they'll just ignore me as they have before. Thanks!

I think I might have discovered the culprit. Acting on a hunch, I uninstalled nVidia's GeForce Experience. I can always manually check for updates to my graphics card from their website. That application never worked right right out of the box on my new Dell system. For many revisions, if you had ZoneAlarm installed, it simply didn't work at all, even if you added rules for it. nVidia finally fixed that but the application still never worked right 50% of the time. Checking for updates would sometimes never resolve. Refreshing the games list would sometimes never refresh, etc. application was more trouble than it was worth.

It uses the word tray? I thought there was no tray in a slot loader. I don't know.

Or, you're in the UK, so PAL vs. NTSC doesn't matter as NTSC plays on PAL, just not the other way around. I'd still test to make sure the DVD is playable with PC playback software. If it won't play on your PC, it definitely won't play on a DVD player as PC is more forgiving. After that, given the vague nature of the error message, you'd have to Google the error message and your DVD player model to see if there's any further explanation of that error available online. TV settings should only have mattered if you were trying to play PAL on an NTSC player as more up to date players check for the video type and restrict it based on the region of your player. For instance, my PS3 checks for PAL and won't play PAL since I'm in R1, where we're on NTSC. You may need to Google for your TV, too, as it may be the TV that is returning that error. I Googled that particular error message and got a few hits, with both Panasonic and Sony DVD players returning the error and LG and Pioneer TV's returning that error. Most of the fixes for those problems were to change from PAL to NTSC in the conversion software. Unless this Premiere Elements has changed its settings from PAL to NTSC. The region locking may be coming into effect because of the difference in video formats.

I noticed this in the 1.0.0.0 changelog: Added: Support for detection of DVD+RW DL media. Those never actually came out, did they?

I can't believe as a beta tester I overlooked the 10th anniversary of ImgBurn last year. I thought it was this year, which I intended to note. When I checked the full change log, though, I found 1.0.0.0 was released at the tail end of 2005. So, sorry for overlooking it and a happy belated decade birthday to ImgBurn! Belated

This is just a guess but the somewhat vague "incompatible TV settings" error sounds you're trying to play a PAL video contents DVD on an NTSC TV. Can you play this DVD in a PC drive using a software player?

Nearly every time I restart Windows, I get a dialog from Windows saying something called Main Message Window doesn't close. I have manually choose to cancel it from memory. I was wondering how I can begin to track down what this Main Message Window might be from? I don't know anything about checking Windows system logs, etc. so I'll need some hand holding. What would I use to check for logs that might contain a reference to something that didn't close properly on Windows restart?

I saw a slot loading drive on Amazon.com. It has no tray. Sort of like on the Playstation 3. So, I was wondering. I am guessing that the option to Cycle the tray after Writes, etc. doesn't work on these drives? I don't see how they could. I'd guess you'd have to manually reinsert the disc in the slot after it's ejected after the ImgBurn drive operation in question.

If ImgBurn is returning information counter to the cover text, then the problem is either the cover text is wrong, your drive is returning the incorrect parameters for that disc, or the disc was incorrectly manufactured with the wrong implementation ID's. Anyway, that's the problem. The disc is being detected as a DVD+R DL. RICOHJPN-R03-04 is DVD+R. I Googled it. First thing I'd try is updating the firmware of the drive, see if there's a new revision that might fix this. In Write mode, right click on the drive letter in the destination drop down and select the last option to check for new firmware. If you have a second DVD burner, try this same disc in that burner and in Write mode, check the data in the right window to see if the media type still says DVD+R DL. Now, it could be the burner in question. I notice it says it's a slim drive. Slim drives are notoriously error prone. Try a full size drive.

You're not burning a single sided DVD+RW. You're burning a dual layer DVD+R DL. I 15:55:56 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: RICOHJPN-R03-04) However, it does appear you're trying to burn an image with the size of a single layer DVD to it. I don't know why you're doing this as a single layer DVD-R/DVD+R is cheaper. As for why you're getting the error message, it's most likely down to some combination of your drive not liking RICOHJPN-R03-04. The only reliable DVD+R DL media is Verbatim DataLife Plus MKM discs. Nearly all the other kinds are junk. They tend to cause most of the problems people have with DVD+R DL. I, however, have come across TDK DVD+R DL that appeared to be good. I've learned Ritek DVD+R DL isn't, from experience. Ricoh and Ritek are essentially the same thing.

If you're absolutely set on creating an ISO, you can mount the BIN/CUE combination in something like Virtual CloneDrive and then using some software to read it that saves as an ISO for audio CD as an option. I think, but I'm not sure, that UltraISO might do that. However, it's a BIN/CUE for a reason in ImgBurn and it's an awful lot of trouble to get an ISO file out of it.

Yeah, I once had a Sony DVD player that would not even recognize Sony brand DVD-R's when inserted. And this was back when Sony still made their own DVD-R's, not outsourced to Ritek. Needless to say, that player went right back to the store, because it failed to recognize 75% of what I threw at it.

No idea. I've never had a problem with it. Of course, I've never used it for a Windows 7 bootable flash drive. Just Windows 8 and 10. Windows 7 may be older than USB Image Tool and it can't handle its bootimage.

Try something called USB Image Tool. It will make images of USB flash drives to an image file and allow you to write them to other flash drives. This is probably what you'll need since the flash drive is most likely bootable.

Also with the stuff OpenCandy installs, the options for Express or to skip or cancel installs are usually designed to appear to be unselectable. They'll be greyed out until you select them. But they should be selectable if you select them.