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No, it does not necessarily mean the same size will not work on Verbatim, too. Verbatim genuine MKM DataLife Plus series DVD+R DL are simply better quality discs. The size only has something to do with your drive and writing to media. IF the drive is dying or is just picky, then it would matter. But, you won't know until you get some Verbatims and see if it's a disc quality issue.

LUK is right. I failed to notice the size of the image files being burned. The one that failed is much closer to the outer edge of the disc than the one that succeeded. If a burn on DVD+R DL is going to fail, it will usually fail at specific places. Usually at the layer change, right at the start of a burn, right at the end of a burn, right at the start of a verify, or near the inner or outer edge.

Well, without knowing certain things about the source of these image files, it's hard to say. For instance, if you downloaded these images then shame on you and it could mean that some image files are simply just incorrect. If you're reading these images yourself from your own drive, then that's most likely not the case. How old is this drive you're using to burn the images? The problem is probably drive related but what exactly that problem is I couldn't say. It could be the drive is old and dying, which might explain why it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. However, that drive also may just not like that brand of Ritek discs. For instance, I had some CMC DVD-R's once. CMC is the worst manufacturer of optical discs. But, out of 200 of them, half of them burned, verified, and played correctly. The other half either failed to complete burns or failed after a successful burn in the verify phase. So, that is most likely down to that drive back then not liking those CMC's. However, the media could be the problem. Lots of people have issues with Ritek DVD+R DL's. I related mine where I had 5 of them and 3 of them were unreadable 8 years later. So, where does that leave us? Off hand, I'd say your drive is probably picky on the Riteks. The thing to try for those is to get your hand of some DataLife Plus MKM Verbatim DVD+R DL's. However, you won't find them in stores so you'll have to search online. Do NOT get the Life series; those are CMC. Get DataLife Plus. Most issues with DVD+R DL failed burns are usually solved when people switch from non-genuine Verbatim DVD+R DL to genuine, MKM DataLife Plus series Verbatim DVD+R DL. So, I'd say start there. IF you still encounter issues, then the problem is either in the image or in the drive. The image is most likely not the culprit, so the drive itself is more culpable. If it had a problem with the Riteks and the Verbatims, then it's most likely the drive needs replacing. Either because it's dying or it's too picky with DVD+R DL media. Most drives don't have problems with MKM's but my Pioneer didn't like them until a firmware update earlier in the year. Speaking of firmware updates, you might want to see if there's a firmware update for your drive. Another go to first diagnosis is to see if a firmware update corrects any issues with media compatibility.

Off hand, I'd lay the blame on the Ritek DVD+R DL discs. I 09:52:28 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: RITEK-S04-66) I had 5 Ritek Office Depot DVD+R DL's once. Only 2 of them were still readable after 8 years. Genuine Verbatim's are the only reliable choice for DVD+R DL. Unfortunately, the stuff you find in stores isn't genuine Verbatim. Verbatim farms it out to cheap manufacturers. The only way to get genuine MKM Verbatim DVD+R DL is to order them online. Do a search for DataLife Plus Verbatim DVD+R DL. Most problems we encounter on this board involving errors with DVD+R DL are caused by cheap discs. Once people switch to quality Verbatim, their issues usually disappear. No guarantee, but I'd start there. As to why some burns worked, I'd have to see the Disc ID of one of those discs that burned successfully. See what they are. There's also the simple fact that even cheap media will sometimes burn and verify successfully. But, after a while, they usually won't be readable. Those Ritek's I had burned and verified fine. But they were unreadable after a few years.

Under Help, choose ImgBurn Logs. It will open the folder containing your log file. You'll need to open the file (There was only 1 log file in my folder, with logs dated from yesterday.) and find the burn. I don't know how many logs are retained, if there are more than 1 file, or how far back the log file, if there's only 1 file, goes in terms of days/numbers of burns.

Life Series is Verbatim's cheap ass CMC media. If you bought it in a brick and mortar store, it's Life series and CMC crap. What you'll want is to look for DataLife Plus series DVD's online.

Yeah, most likely the cause is the media. You probably got burns that completed because you were using different media than ones that failed. Or your drive is going bad which can mean it sometimes work okay and sometimes doesn't. As was said, we'd need a log of a bad burn to see what the MID on these discs is and any other errors. Plus, getting the disc info for a disc that burned okay would help, too.

Yeah, last I heard, Sony had retired the Optiarc line. I've never heard of Vinpower Digital before.

Optiarcs are fairly old. They haven't been made in years as far as I know. So, your drive may be the problem.

So, it's not essential to booting the PC? I would hope it's not. IMO, if ESP were necessary to boot the PC, then there would be all kinds of potential problems. A bad sector. Some kind of malware that wipes the partition.

BTW, if you can get stuff sent to you from Amazon.com, here's the link to the Verbatim BD-RE DL I have tested. http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Blu-ray-Double-ReWritable-97536/dp/B004Q9YPYI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442890828&sr=8-1&keywords=verbatim+bd-re+dl It's been a year and a half since I got mine, but the one I got worked fine. It was made by Verbatim as I doubt CMC makes BD-RE DL's. Hence why Verbatim also farms out to TDK for BD-RE DL's. Otherwise, they'd farm them out to CMC. So, I doubt these are CMC's now and are still quality Verbatim made ones.

This computer I got a year ago is my first system I've ever had that uses UEFI. There's a partition with the label ESP. Partition Master says this is called the EFI System Partition, which makes ESP make sense. So, what is this partition? And what happens should it become damaged or accidentally deleted? If this partition was gone, would a UEFI PC suddenly stop booting? If there is damage to ESP or if it is deleted, then how can it be repaired? I have this partition imaged so I can recovery from it should anything happen to it, in theory. But, I am curious. Thanks!

Is the format speed of rewritable media the same as the maximum write rate for that media? For instance, if you had a 4x DVD-RW, formatting it would format at 4x speed. And a 6x DVD-RW would format at a 6x format speed? Thus, the 6x DVD-RW would finish formatting sooner than the 4x DVD-RW? I'm guessing this is the case because isn't a format just writing out zeroes to all sectors? This implies a write operation and the maximum format speed would be the maximum write rate. Is that so?

I would highly recommend avoiding all Sony products. I had a Sony BD-RE and it died before its 5th write. The only BD-R I ever had that failed to complete a write was, you guessed it, a Sony BD-R. IMO, Sony has made 95% nothing but junk products since 2002. I could go on about Sony junk I've had since 2002 but I won't bore you with the details.

I have those BD-RE DL's. Actually, Verbatim doesn't make those. Those are made by TDK. Like their BD-RE, which is farmed out to CMC Magnetics, the worst manufacturer of optical media out there, Verbatim farmed out those BD-RE DL's to TDK. I've not tested them for playing double layer Blu-Ray movies on. I use them entirely for data backups. The only BD-RE DL I used for playing Blu-Ray was back when Verbatim made their own BD-RE DL discs. That one played without issue. However, Verbatim no longer apparently makes their BD-RE SL or DL anymore. In fact, everyone but Panasonic and Maxell farms out to CMC for their BD-RE SL's. I can't tell you what discs to use as I've only ever used Verbatim made BD-RE DL for playing Blu-Ray movies. I've not tested my TDK Verbatim BD-RE DL's for Blu-Ray movies. As for why it works when you shrink it, the answer is most likely the change to the 2nd layer. Your standalone player seems to have no problem focusing the laser to play the first layer. However, your Blu-Ray player doesn't appear to be phase changing properly to the 2nd layer. Hence why shrinking to 25 GB seems to work okay. Unfortunately, this is most likely an issue where your Blu-Ray player just doesn't like those brand of TDK media. Sort of like how the Playstation 3 doesn't like to play at all well with Ritek BD-RE. And there's no way to fix that. Or your issue could be BD-RE DL layer in general. Your player may not play BD-RE DL well at all. Or the issue may even be dual layer pressed Blu-Ray movies, too.

Multi-session discs are not supported. So, you can't Read them to an image file. What are the contents on this disc? Is it something like a DVD recorder recorded disc? Or is it an audio CD with multiple sessions, one for the CD Audio tracks and one for data? Depending on the contents, what you can try to do is use Build mode and drag and drop the contents from this disc into a Build session. Then, you can create an image file that way. However, if there is data on separate sessions, this won't work. I know some of my Panasonic DVD recorder discs are apparently multi-session as ImgBurn won't Read them. I have to drag and drop the VIDEO_TS contents from the discs into a Build session, create the image file that way, and then burn that image.

Probably a drive compatibility issue with that kind of BD-RE DL you're using. Are you using a Memorex, Ritek, or CMC BD-RE? They can be problematic for playback on certain players. For instance, the PS3 has playback issues with Memorex/Ritek BD-RE but not Verbatim's own non-CMC BD-RE. Please post a log of one of these BD-RE DL burns or insert one of them into a drive in Write mode and check the right panel of information of the MID/DID/Disc ID/Manufacturer ID field and post that information here. As for why Quick Erase fails, please post a log of a write where Quick Erase fails and/or post any error dialog information that pops up.

If you want to image a USB stick, use USB Image Tool. It will image USB thumb drives and write them to sticks. It will even image and write bootable sticks. Unfortunately, you can't take a CD image, even if it's an ISO, and write them to USB sticks.

Can't install KB3081455 Windows Update on Windows 10? There's probably a simple, stupid reason why. Thankfully, there's a simple solution. What most likely causes the problem is, believe it or not, moving or deleting default Windows shortcuts from the Start Menu. Yes, believe it or not! To fix, don't try any of those unnecessarily complicated steps Microsoft will uselessly put you through. Try this first: simply run System File Checker. Open an elevated Command Prompt and run SFC /SCANNOW Then, try downloading and installing the update again. If that doesn't work, you may need to delete your old Windows Update folder. See my older post about stopping various services and deleting folders.

With this DVD+R DL inserted in the drive, go into Read Mode and make sure ImgBurn returns Disc Is Empty. This will make sure you didn't get some kind of rip off stack of already recorded discs. Or it will isolate if it's a general reading problem with that drive and the type of disc. Also try more than one of those CMC's and see if happens on more than one of those discs. Could be the CMC discs you're trying to use. Some drives may not like that DID and CMC is the worst manufacturer of optical discs out there. Their DVD products have a high failure rate. So, even if you do get it to recognize as a burnable disc, it may not Write complete or complete Verify. And, if it does, it may not play properly. And if it does, it probably won't be readable after a short while. If you buy DVD in brick and mortar stores, they will 99% of the time be CMC. Verbatim DVD+R DL is pretty much the only good quality disc. However, you can't buy their Life series discs or DVD+R DL discs in stores. They will be CMC. Yes, even Verbatim farms out to the worst manufacturer out there! You can only get the good stuff online. You'll want the DataLife Series Plus DVD+R DL.

Since you've had this drive for 2 to 2 and a half years now, I'd be worried that it's dying at this point. However, you said it worked before installing Windows 10. Could be a driver that isn't updated for a drive that old? Just a guess.

How old is this drive? Have you been able to burn DL BD before? Or is this your first time trying? You're getting this on 2 different discs, but they DID could be the same, despite the name on the product label. Can you post the log from the RiData and the Philips burns? Or insert each type of BD DL into a drive and get the DID from the pane of info in Write mode. They could be cheap CMC media, despite the name on the labels. Or some kind of media your drive doesn't like, as LUK said. However, if it could be the age of the drive, it is possible for a burner to write just fine to other brands of media but if it's gone bad, it may no longer write to one specific kind of media. I had an LG that when it died it wrote everything fine except DVD+R DL media it had written to before.

I know, as LUK said, there are no layer breaks on BD DL and BD XL as Blu-Rays are treated as one gigantic layer/disc. However, what I want to know is on video Blu-Rays, do players have a pause when switching between layers when playing the video like they can on DVD-9's?

Actually, discovered that didn't work with the DVD in question from this original post! It DID fix an errant left over layer break on a DVD-5, though, from a different disc. Yeah, whoever authored that disc for Antarctic Press that I had trouble with before added THREE layer breaks into a VTS on a disc that was a DVD-5! Well, technically only 2. The 3rd layer break is the layer break that appears at the end of all VTS's.

I had intended to post the same request earlier when I first saw this post. I forgot.