dbminter

Have you tested other discs than the one that you were using when the power failed? In other words, have you ruled out that the drive might have been damaged? If other discs work, then you know that one disc is borked and can't be used anymore.

ImgBurn's log returns that my version of Windows is: I 18:31:09 Microsoft Windows 8 Core x64 Edition (6.2, Build 9200) So, my question is why is Windows 8.1 Update 1 referred to as 6.2?

Also, did you try a Full erase or just a Quick erase?

What happens when you burn an image that fits on a single layer BD-RE to a BD-RE DL? Is only Layer 0 written to? Is any padding written to Layer 1? If so, is the remaining space on Layer 0 and all of Layer 1 written with padding?

It depends on a few things. If you have a VIDEO_TS compliant folder of DVD video MPG files, then if you create an image from Build mode with that folder in the root, then ImgBurn will automatically change the necessary settings to make that DVD playable on a standalone DVD player. If your DVD player supports playing of MPG files, i.e. some kind of container you play in something like Windows Media Player, then it depends on how your DVD player handles those kinds of files. If your DVD player does support them, then usually all you should need to do it put the files in the root directory in a Build job. However, it depends on how your DVD player plays them. It may want them in a specific directory which your player's manually should tell you if it does. If you have something like an .MPG file you're trying to play on a DVD player and it doesn't support playing .MPG files directly, you'll need something like ConvertXToDVD to convert the .MPG files to VIDEO_TS contents.

What exactly is the Image File Volume Set Identifier? What does it identify? What practical use is it?

Yeah, I believe a DVD-R layer is 4,700,000,000 bytes and a DVD+R DL is 8,500 KiB. I ran two tests and each time ImgBurn never brought up a layer break prompt. So, it appears to be do just that.

What happens when ImgBurn creates a DVD Video compliant job with a VIDEO_TS that fits on a single layer but you add files to the root directory so that the job size becomes dual layer? Does ImgBurn put the VIDEO_TS on the first layer so there's no need for a layer break? And then splits the remaining root directory files across both layers?

I was thinking the same thing, that UME discs might be junk. I wasn't sure, though, as I'm not as familiar with UME as say the demon worshipers known as CMC!

I sometimes have this annual tradition of copying and pasting cynical lyrics about the holidays around Christmas time. I'm running out of things to quote! I think I've only got one other candidate after this one. This year is the great Christmas At Ground Zero by Weird Al Yankovic. It's Christmas at ground zero There's music in the air The sleigh bells are ringin' and the carolers are singin' While the air raid sirens blare It's Christmas at ground zero The button has been pressed The radio just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin' It's the end of all humanity No more time for last minute shoppin' It's time to face your final destiny Well, it's Christmas at ground zero There's panic in the crowd We can dodge debris while we trim the tree Underneath a mushroom cloud [Air raid siren] You might hear some reindeer on your rooftop Or Jack Frost on your windowsill But if someone's climbin' down your chimney You better load your gun and shoot to kill Oh, it's Christmas at ground zero And if the radiation level's okay I'll go out with you and see the all new Mutations on New Year's Day It's Christmas at ground zero Just seconds left to go I'll duck and cover with my yuletide lover Underneath the mistletoe It's Christmas at ground zero Now the missiles are on their way What a crazy fluke we're gonna get nuked On this jolly holiday What a crazy fluke we're gonna get nuked On this jolly holiday [Air raid siren]

And it lasted exactly 22 times before it died. So, it seems LG burners are still no good for writing Ritek 8x DVD+RW media.

Do you happen to know if this advance setting is saved in the shortcut itself or only in Windows? I ask because I think I had this setting in the shortcut options before on other versions of Windows. I've used the same shortcuts across different versions of Windows because I have actually nerd tweaked my Windows so that the Start Menu is saved on a USB HDD. (Along with my Desktop. ) So, in theory, if I did set this option already, which I think I did, it wasn't saved in the shortcut itself. This may mean that the option is stored in the Registry for this shortcut instead. Is that such a thing?

Total is now 18 times.

Mine were made in China. So, that could be good or bad. China has about a 50/50 ratio of good quality versus bad quality products. They undersell everyone else on their production costs but sometimes at the cost of the quality of the product.

Got the CD-R's I ordered from http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DataLifePlus-Printable-Recordable-94755/dp/B0001LS35W/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1414625442&sr=8-3&keywords=verbatim+cd-r+azo+inkjet Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. So, these are the good stuff. Verbatim does make a good CD-R. Too bad they also release from CMC under their good name.

I'm not an expert, but these entries in the log similar to this one: W 10:06:19 Retry Failed - Reason: Read of Scrambled Sector Without Authentication indicate to me that you're trying to read a copy protected disc. Is this a DVD movie disc that you're trying to copy? If so and it's copy protected, ImgBurn won't read it. If it's not, then I'd blame the Samsung drive. Samsung is known for making lower quality drives.

Thanks! That worked. I somehow overlooked that option when I checked the shortcut properties before I posted this thread. I didn't even find it under Security, which makes the most sense, to me, probably, where it should be.

Is there a way I can edit the shortcut for Command Prompt so that it always open elevated, as an administrator? The way I do it now is I have to right click on the shortcut and choose Run as administrator. Idiotic fuckers at Microsoft! The ONLY time you ever run a Command Prompt is to ALWAYS run commands that you need elevated privileges for! So, Command Prompt should ALWAYS fun elevated by default!

And it's apparently not a fluke! I've come across 3 other of these CMC CD-RW's from the same time period 8 years ago. They were all readable! It sure looks more and more like CMC, in the distant past, made a decent product.

Yeah, my first inclination was to blame CMC Magnetics media, too.

If you can order from Amazon.com, these are the last Verbatim DVD-R's I bought that weren't Lightscribe. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002OOWC8I/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I haven't bought these in over 4 years. But, back then, they were MCC discs, which means Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation made them. MCC makes some of the best optical media out there. These are inkjet printable discs. So, you may not need that feature on your discs. I don't have an inkjet printer, so I just write on the surface with CD approved markers.

Well, I remembered to check the drive again because I had to be in that same section. I think my USB HDD is on its last legs. I had difficulties getting Windows to start with it turned on. Once turned off and Windows started, I turned it back on and after some time, the drive was recognized and data reads off of it. So, I decided to replace it and was in the HDD section. Turns out you were right, LUK. It IS an enclosure. So it says 0 TB because it does not contain an HDD in it. Just the enclosure. I'd, of course, say, they shouldn't say it has 0 TB on it because as an enclosure no one would expect it to have a drive in it! 0 TB just causes confusion, like it did with me.

I was wondering if DVD-RW discs are thicker than DVD-R's. The reason I ask is when I use my disc shredder to destroy DVD-RW, it does it slower and louder than it shreds DVD-R's. That seems to indicate to me the shredder does more work on DVD-RW than DVD-R. The only reason I can think of this might be the case is that DVD-RW's may be thicker than DVD-R. It may not be perceptible to the human eye, but it could be the case? Maybe a rewritable layer is thicker than a WORM dye layer?

All you're doing is disabling the warning ImgBurn puts in the log. The warning still persists, you just won't see it. There is no interference in the operation of Daemon Tools with ImgBurn returning that warning. And there may be no interference in ImgBurn with Daemon Tools running. You'd have to test and see if there's a detrimental performance to your drive with Daemon Tools installed. If there is, there will be detrimental performance in not just ImgBurn but any application that uses your optical drives.

Well, so far, I've written to this DVD+RW written once in the new LG 10 times total. Once in the LG and 9 times in the Pioneer. It's lasted longer, I think, than my past experience with the old LG. But, I'll still keep records. I'm kind of curious how long a DVD+RW actually lasts anyway. Inferring this one doesn't die an early death like the old LG burned ones do, they say a rewritable disc can be written to 1,000 times. My actual experience is it's more on a magnitude of 100.