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Working on a hunch, I tried something. The biggest change I could think of all the changes I had cataloged since the last update of my base image was I turned on Indexing for all of my PC drives that were allowed. Windows 8 Search sucks. 50% of the time, it cannot find file names on a drive. So, I thought maybe it was because Windows 8 only indexes a few folders. So, I turned on Indexing for all drives. I noticed this pretty much kept my USB HDD drive light blinking half of the time. I disabled it and tested CD's again. The problem seemed to go away. I even played the last 3 tracks on the CD to see if the problem had moved somewhere else. Now, I've no idea if this was the cause of the problem or if it fixes it. I'll have to test more in a real world environment with copying CD's. I honestly cannot see WHY this would be the issue. Indexing shouldn't have anything to do with SATA burner read data. It might on SATA HD's as the indexing might be causing intermittent read errors to the file being written to the SATA HD while the indexing is reading contents/writing to its own indexing pool. I'm only guessing as I'm grasping at straws as to why this might be the cause IF it is, indeed, the cause.

CPU-Z information Motherboard Manufacturer: Dell Inc Model: 0KWVT8 Chipset: Intel Haswell Rev. 06 Southbridge: Intel Z87 Rev. C2 LPCIO: ITE IT8772 I don't know how to determine the SATA Controller mode.

I just got out of Safe Mode and the issue was not present. So, it's something that got installed/changed that did it.

I'll try Safe Mode and report back. I'm sorry, but I don't know how to check the SATA Controller mode or what chipset my motherboard uses. I Googled about checking the chipset but apparently Intel idiotically doesn't make a 64 bit version of its chipset identification utility! So, I can't identify it. What worries me it doesn't appear to be a software issue as I know I've been able to copy CD's before on this PC since I got it in August and I restored my system to an image I think worked before and it still failed.

I've got a weird issue that I can't even begin to tackle. The problem appears to be reading audio CD's to image files on an SATA drive. What happens is the last track always plays with skips. I've tried different drives and different media and the only concrete results are it occurs when reading audio CD's to an image file in an SATA connected drive. When I read the discs with my USB drive, I don't get skipping playback on the last track. I've tried restoring my system to an image made when I last made successful audio CD reads. The issue is still there. As I said, the only thing that seems to work is to read the audio CD's to image files with my USB drive. I can burn the image files in an SATA drive without the skipping playback. It appears to only be when audio CD's are reading in an SATA drive. I've tried both SATA drives and it happens. I've tried writing to Mitsubishi CD-R and CD-RW and get the same results. I've burned in both the Pioneer and LG with the same results. I've tried reading and writing with both ImgBurn and Nero with the same results. So, this isn't particularly an ImgBurn issue but it does happen with ImgBurn. So, anyone have any idea how I can begin to go about this issue?

Advanced. From the Disk Layout Editor window. The weird thing is it appears to be pseudo-random. I can't replicate it. It just happens. And when it happens, I just drag and drop the contents again and it usually adds fine. There was one time where I was dragging and dropping a file and it always added some random stringed file name from the TEMPDIR folder. This behavior only fixed itself when I closed ImgBurn and reopened it.

Randomly, when I drag and drop a folder into a Build job, I sometimes get some weird behavior. What happens is only the first file in the folder is added. However, this behavior also sometimes happen when I drag and drop multiple files into a job. Only the first file gets added. Just now, I had the oddest drag and drop behavior of them all. I dragged and dropped a folder containing about 8 files. The folder created in the Build pane was named the same as the folder I dragged and dropped, but the contents were NOT the folder's contents! What the folder actually contained was the contents of the installation directory for ImgBurn! ImgBurn.exe and the Preview .exe as well as other contents in the folder.

Why not just use the Create MDS File option under Tools? It will ask you for the location of the ISO file or if it is split into multiple parts, just arrange the parts in order.

I created an image from overburned Audio CD. ImgBurn created the original CD-R because the source was an MP3 that was only just a few seconds over 80 minutes so I only had to overburn like 2 sectors. ImgBurn created 4 files: an .IMG, a .CCD, a .CUE and a .CDT. Or maybe it was a .CTD file, I forget. I've since deleted the files and I haven't created an image from an Audio CD since to see what the file extension was. I was wondering what this CDT/CTD file was. I know the .IMG is the main source file, .CCD is the CloneCD file for CloneCD and Virtual CloneDrive, .CUE is the standard file CUE/BIN/IMG. That last file, I don't know what it's for.

The transcoding phase may not actually be that long in terms of what I can compare it to. I can compare it to transcoding DVD with ConvertXToDVD. It takes about 30 or 40 minutes to create an full DVD of contents with that application. That's about 5 GB. So, 30 minutes for 5 GB would translate to about 150 minutes for 25 GB. That's 2 and a half hours. Of course, I've not idea how fast or slow this transcoding application is you're using for Blu-Ray. Or if there's an option for 2 pass encoding like in ConvertXToDVD. As was said before, your best bet is to find a support forum for this application you're using and ask if 5 hours is exceptionally long for transcoding 25 GB.

It depends on a few things. In terms of time, are you saying it's taking 4 hours to burn the disc or 4 hours to create the folder containing the Blu-Ray playable contents? If you're just talking about burning time, 2 or 4 hours is definitely longer than it should be. My internal Pioneer Blu-Ray burner writes a single layer BD-RE in about 47 minutes writing every single sector. A BD-R is about 15 minutes. Plus, are these 2 programs writing the contents to Blu-Ray at the same time they are creating them? If that's the case, I can see it taking significantly longer. I've never created any pure Blu-Ray contents for burning, so I can't say how long it should take to create the folder contents on an HDD, let alone to a BD.

You're right. I do create CCD files for use with Virtual CloneDrive. I came across some BIN/CUE files from 7 to 8 years ago of an Audio CD that I am pretty sure I made with ImgBurn. Since then, I switched from Alcohol to Virtual CloneDrive. So, I would have changed the ImgBurn settings to create CCD files since then. I should still load the .CUE file in ImgBurn, right? Not the CCD, if ImgBurn even supports reading CCD files?

At some point in the past, did ImgBurn write image files of CD's to BIN/CUE files? Now, it writes to .IMG/Cue files, doesn't it? Or were/are BIN reserved for only Audio CD images? I believe the last audio CD image I made was IMG/Cue, but I could be wrong.

As Lightning said, if your goal is to copy your hard drive, you're better off with an imaging program like Acronis True Image. Personally, I used to use that buy now I loathe it. I recommend Macrium Reflect. ImgBurn will make a copy of the contents but if you ever had a case where the PC wouldn't boot, an ImgBurn backup won't be of much use. Plus, with imaging software, you can install all your new essential software, image the Windows partition after you installed it all, and if you ever needed to reinstall everything, you just restore the image. I've been imaging my PC's for 20 years, starting with Drive Image. I got tired of reinstalling everything when Windows needed a reinstall every month.

What you could do in your case is write your image file with ImgBurn to HDD and then copy over the file to thumb drive as ImgBurn won't write directly to the thumb drive. However, you'd need some kind of virtual optical drive emulation software like Virtual CloneDrive so you could mount the image file to access the contents. Or get software like UltraISO to extract contents from the image file. You might want to enable file splitting options for your image in case the contents are larger than the 16 GB thumb drive you mentioned. Or just get a larger thumb drive. Dell's have quick release mechanisms for their optical drive bays? My last Dell and my current one don't. My 2009 PC had something like that. Green bars that lined up with the screw holes and held the drives in place. They were released by simply prying on a little lever. I LOVED that.

It's been almost 10 years since the introduction of Blu-Ray media. Where are the 4x BD-RE? Why are we still stuck at 2x? I've been using them for the past 3 years so the technology is definitely older than that.

Found a 2nd CMC MAG DVD+R DL in my collection. It, too, read without errors to an image file. I never would have guessed a CMC MAG DVD+R DL would be better than a Ritek one made by Office Depot. Ritek used to make Office Depot DVD-R's years ago that were still readable 8 or 9 years after burning. Yet, the Office Depot DVD+R DL's were half failures.

And all 15 of my TDK Ritek DVD+R DL fully ready to image files without error!

Discovered I had a CMC MAG DVD+R DL that somehow managed to slip past my eagle eyes into my collection. I burned this disc over 7 years ago and when I came across it today and discovered it was a CMC MAG, I started reading it to an image to try and salvage it to a Verbatim DVD+R DL. Not expecting any results, I was rather surprised when the disc read to an image file without errors! And, yet, Office Depot Ritek DVD+R DL were 50% hit or miss in being able to be readable after 7 years. All of my TDK Ritek DVD+R DL were still readable.

But, that won't copy over the bootable section, will it? Just dragging and dropping the contents?

But, you want to know the weird thing? Shortly after I got the Office Depot Ritek DVD+R DL's, I got some TDK Ritek DVD+R DL's before I realized Verbatims were the only way to go. I've been copying those TDK's made shortly after the Office Depot discs to BD-R's to save what I could and all 8 of the TDK's I've copied so far read to image files!

If anyone needed proof to avoid Ritek DVD+R DL's and use only Verbatim, I have empirical evidence. Before I knew that Verbatim DVD+R DL's were the only way to go, I got some Office Depot Ritek DVD+R DL's in 2008. I went back to read 3 of them today. Of the 3, only 1 was readable to an image file. One of the others was recognized as a disc in File Explorer, but couldn't read all of the contents off of it. The other one was complete unrecognizable as a disc in File Explorer. The drive light kept flashing for 5 minutes before the drive timed out trying to read it. File Explorer simply returned that it was a DVD and did not recognize any contents. So, stop using those Memorex CMC and other companies' Ritek DVD+R DL's! They may complete a burn and verify, but 7 years later, they will most likely not be readable!

Yeah, if this is your first time using CMC Memorex media on this particular DVD player, it's down to the player. Either it doesn't like the discs or the player is dying. If you've tried these discs on other players and they skip on them, too, it's either the media itself or your DVD burner is the problem.

A new firmware came out for my Pioneer BDR-209M. 1.30 - ID60 So, I tried another inkjet DVD+R DL MKM-003-00 burn. The firmware update apparently did the trick. The burn and verify completed.

I didn't say that. I just said that in the past, fake MID's have appeared. But not in recent years. I'm just trying to say nothing is as certain as you want it to be. Most likely, those MCC's are Mitsubishi.