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How long have you had this drive? Optiarc hasn't made drives for years, so it may your drive has just finally given up the ghost. Had you ever successfully burned discs in this drive before and now it's stopped working? It's not cheap media causing it because your first disc was an MCC disc ID. CMC not working can't be the cause because MCC doesn't either. Have you tried writing this image to a rewritable disc? Check to see if that works as what usually happens when a drive dies is that write once media won't work but rewritable still will or vice versa. Although it can happen where both types won't work. Plus, this can also test the image. I noticed you used the same image for each test. Maybe the image is at fault? Try imaging another disc and see if you get the same error.

I checked BIOS. My SATA Mode enabled is AHCI. There's a RAID option available, but I don't think I should set that. I don't have a RAID set up and I can't see that changing that setting would fix my problem. It just randomly showed up after reading CD's were working fine before at least March 31st.

About changing the SATA controller mode. Is that a setting changed in BIOS?

Actually, never mind. According this: http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Find-Out-if-Your-Sandy-Bridge-Motherboard-Is-Affected-by-Intel-s-SATA-Bug-182252.shtml I'm not affected. My REV_ string is not 04 based but 05 based. Plus, this issue seems to date back to 2011. My PC was bought last year and was probably made in 2014, too.

Tell me more about this update. Where can I get it? I can try it and see if it installs on mine and then that might tell me if I need it. The only thing I've been able to isolate is that it occurs on reading the outer edge of an audio CD. The skips, pops, hisses, errors, etc. always occur within the last 3 tracks, more often than not at the end of the last track. Since CD audio data is stored Track 1 at the inner edge, the issue is reading data from the outer edge. It's on SATA and USB drives as the source for reading CD's. The errors are present in the image files themselves so it's happening at either a read level from the CD's or a write level to the image file. Most likely a read issue. It doesn't seem to occur when reading the last tracks to MP3. It happens when writing image files to either a USB or SATA HDD. And the weird thing is the issue is random. I'll read the same disc multiple times and the errors are in different tracks or different parts of a track.

Even my patience had its limits. After the last post on March 31st got a reply asking the same questions again, I unsubscribed from this thread. I just came by to see how big it had gotten since then. Looks like gamemaniaco got banned since then, so it didn't get as big as I expected.

If the ISO says it's a Blu-Ray, it's a Blu-Ray. What's the ISO file size? Anything over a little over 8 GB will be a Blu-Ray. So, if it's definitely 9 GB or larger, it's a Blu-Ray. Plus, how do you know it's saving them as Blu-Rays? Have you tried opening the ISO/mounting it to see what the contents are? If there is a VIDEO_TS it's a DVD. If it's something else, I forget what the folder name is for Blu-Ray, then it's a Blu-Ray.

You're using bad discs because of the Disc ID field in the image you posted. It says CMC MAG. CMC MAG is CMC Magnetics, the worst optical disc manufacturer out there. Just because Philips put their name on it doesn't mean they made it. They farmed it out to CMC like Memorex and Verbatim do. Anything you buy in a brick and mortar store will be CMC. You will have to get media online and even then you'll need to read the reviews and see what they list as the DID/MID/Disc ID/Manufacturer ID. You'll want Verbatim but only DataLife Plus NOT Life series or you'll want Taiyo Yuden DVD-R. Verbatim does farm out to CMC but they also farm out to Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, one of the best optical media manufacturers out there. Most of the errors people report here are caused by cheap media, CMC being the primary culprit. With CMC, you're lucky if they start burning. If they do start, you're lucky if they finish. If they do finish, you're lucky if they finish Verify. And if they finish Verify, you're lucky if your DVD player will actually play them. Philips is known to vomit CMC DVD-R's. I've experienced it personally. I found 2 of them for a dollar at Dollar Tree. I knew they were CMC's at that price but I was curious and it would only cost me a buck to see. Sure enough, as I knew, they were CMC's. So, they were immediately shredded.

Maybe the Size On Disk value is too large? For some weird reason, there are 2 different sizes returned by Windows Explorer. Size On Disk is something that I think only shows up on Properties. You might want to check the Properties of the movie file, if it's a movie file, or of the folder it's in in if it's a movie disc. Therefore, Windows Explorer might not be returning the actual size. And let's not get started on the size GB, GiB, MB, MiB, KB, KiB versus Bytes conflicting values of units of measurement.

Apparently, ALT+3 doesn't work with .WAV. Some fool entered the wrong data on whatever Windows Media Player uses and now most of the tracks have the wrong information. I can change the file names, but it doesn't change the internal information that pops up in WinAmp when I play these lossless WAV files. EDIT: Discovered Shift+E. EDIT: Shift+E doesn't work! It changes the data field but does not actually update the file. The changes disappear upon exit.

I'd say this is most likely your problem: I 16:49:06 Destination Media Type: BD-R (Disc ID: CMCMAG-BA3-000) CMCMAG means CMC Magnetics made that BD-R. CMC Magnetics is the worst optical disc manufacturer out there. Most of the problems people report are because of cheap media. CMC Mag also makes the BD-RE's of Verbatim, which is unfortunate as 1.) Verbatim used to make their own good quality BD-RE and 2.) Verbatim makes its own good quality BD-R. Unfortunately, if you bought these discs in a brick and mortar store, you're mostly only going to find CMC Magnetics junk. Your best bet for quality discs is to order them online. I can only speak of my experiences in the United States, but I get my Verbatim BD-R's from Amazon.com. Although, I have seen the same good quality BD-R's in Best Buy (Not any more.) and at Office Depot. Taiyo Yuden also makes BD-R. I've not tested them yet but TY makes some of the best DVD and CD recordable discs out there. So, one might have a high expectation that their BD-R would be of good quality, too. I've not bought any to test yet, so I can't tell you. I plan on doing it someday, though. Also, are those BD-R labeled Low To High/LTH? Some older drives have problems with LTH media. You're better off with High To Low/HTL. They have higher compatibility with burners and stand alone players and they last longer. LTH uses recordable dyes like CD and DVD recordable media. They're organic and don't last as long. HTL uses inorganic, metal based layers that are fused together when burned.

They claim that large files should not be written to or deleted from an SSD. If that's the case, what about the swap file? It's very large and is defaulted to be created when Windows is initially set up. What about the hiberfil.sys file? It's exactly the same of the maximum amount of system RAM. Most PC's ship with 6 GB or 8 GB, for 64 bit PC's, as standard. So, that means Hibernate would write 6/8 GB to an SSD. And on to ImgBurn itself. A Read or Build job can be beyond 25 GB if we're talking about a double layer BD job. If your PC only has an SSD drive, you have relatively little choice with ImgBurn but to use the SSD. You could plug in a USB HDD with actual spinning platters but the USB bridge would be limited to 2.0 speed or 3.0 speed at the max. Well, 3.1 speed coming up soon.

I've discovered a nifty trick that has fixed every one of my Windows Update updates that fail to install. So, I'm passing it along in case anyone else wants to try it if their Windows Update updates fail. First, open an elevated administrator Command Prompt. Google how to do this for instructions specific to your version of Windows. In the Command Prompt, run sfc /scannow Let the command run, which will take some time. The command will most likely return the following message after it finished: "Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. Note that logging is currently not supported in offline servicing scenarios." Ignore these errors as you most likely can't fix them because they aren't really errors. Try downloading the Windows Update update(s) that failed again. Most likely, they will complete successfully now. I've had 3 or 4 Windows Updates that failed to install before I ran SFC and tried again. All of them ran successfully after running the System File Checker command. Just had Windows Update fail on yesterday's released update of KB3046002 with error message 80070003. In the past, I've had a Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool update that failed to install. Windows Update entered an endless loop that always repeated itself on restart of Windows. Windows would never start because of this loop. Running SFC before installing that update fixed it, too. I had at least one other problem, on KB2976536. SFC fixed that, too.

I'll keep it in mind but I managed to make due with iTunes. I just restored an image taken before installing iTunes and tried it again. This time, it ripped multiple MP3's by combining source tracks. I've no idea why it messed up before. And, of course, I plan on restoring this image again after I'm done with iTunes!

Typical screwed up Apple program! Not only do you have to jump through hoops to get Join tracks to work it only works once! After you perform the task, the option to Join tracks disappears from its menu location! Idiots!

Looks like iTunes might work. I hate installing an Apple application but I may have no choice!

Unfortunately, WaveCat is useless for what I want. While it works for all the tracks from a CD, if you separate the tracks so they're not all together, it won't work.

Discovered a few time savers. Found that Windows Media Player has a lossless WAV option for ripping. So, no need to rip to MP3, convert MP3 to WAV, then convert merged WAV to MP3. I can just rip to WAV, merge the WAVs into one WAV, then convert the merged WAV to MP3.

That's my fault. I don't think I specified selected tracks. I just used the phrase multiple tracks. Looks like I've found something called WaveCat that will join multiple WAV files together. I can try ripping to MP3, converting the MP3's to WAV, merging the WAV's into 1 WAV, and then converting that WAV back to MP3.

TDK is good when TDK actually makes them. I've seen TDK CD-R's which were CMC's, the worst optical media manufacturer out there. TDK makes Verbatims BD-RE DL which seem to be okay. TDK also used to make a good DVD+R DL but I haven't used those in 5 years plus. I've not used TDK DVD-R to my knowledge and if I did, my experience would only apply to those in the United States.

I'm afraid that still won't be ideal for what I want. I only want a few selected tracks from a CD. What you describe sounds like it reads the entire CD to a WAV file. I'd have to edit the WAV to remove what I don't want and editing WAV is a pain in the ass!

Is there a software that can rip multiple CD tracks to one big MP3? MusicMatch Jukebox used to do this, but that software would no longer run on Windows starting with Windows Vista. Barring that, is there any way to merge multiple MP3's into one MP3? Roxio's Sound Editor can do it but it adds a pop/skip where the tracks are merged. It will do in a pinch, but it's not a desired solution. Thanks!

I would say your problem lies here: I 12:15:36 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: MBI 01RG40) The Disc ID is not one I recognize. Usually, when I can't recognize it, it's probably a cheap manufacturer. Cheap media is the most common cause of write errors. Did you buy these DVD-R's from a brick and mortar store? If so, they're most likely junk media as you can't find good stuff in stores anymore. You'll want to get stuff from Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim to get the best possible results. However, TY is not sold in stores usually, only online. And you can't trust the Verbatims bought in stores as they're CMC Magnetics junk. If you get Verbatim, get them online and only get media labeled DataLife Plus. Also, I can only speak from a United States point of view. In other countries, MBI might be good media. Who knows? Plus, you might actually be able to find good media in foreign stores. I don't know.

I know DVDReMake says it can supposedly do this. I have that software, but I've never tried to do that before, so I can't say how well it works.

Well, I ran the test again on a different CD in my collection that I know, years ago, I was able to copy on a different computer with different software. I mounted the image to see if the errors were in the file. There were only skips, hisses, or pops in the last 3 tracks! There were pops at the change of tracks in WinAmp, but it did the same thing in WinAmp when I played the source CD in the same reader. So, I don't know WHAT to think!