dbminter

I had to check out this post as, usually, most people's issue is the DVD plays back fine on a PC DVD drive but doesn't play in their standalone DVD player.

I imported a large size of files into a Job in Build mode and I believe the target media listed in the lower right corner was BD-R/E TL. I am guessing TL means Triple Layer? Do they even make triple layer BD-R? I know they make single layer, double layer, and quadruple layer, which I believe they refer to as XL, BD-R, but I'm not aware of any triple layer BD-R.

I decided to try it out and see what the concrete results would be. To put the entire spectrum into perspective, I tested the image on each of a Memorex/MCC 24x CD-RW, a Ritek/Ricoh 8x DVD+RW, and a Memorex/Ritek 2x BD-RE in my Pioneer Blu-Ray burner. Results are below: 24x CD-RW Total Write Duration: 00:01:39 Total Verify Duration: 00:01:53 8x DVD+RW Total Write Duration: 00:00:48 Total Verify Duration: 00:00:39 2x BD-RE Total Write Duration: 00:00:40 Total Verify Duration: 00:00:21 Now, for the sake of total fairness, this drive did graduated writes on the CD-RW and the DVD+RW. The 24x CD-RW went up to 14x, stayed at 14x for a while, then went to 22x and stayed there until the end. The 8x DVD+RW only ever wrote at 6x because the image size was smaller than the size necessary for a write time where the graduated write would go from 6x to 8x. With that taken care of, the 2x BD-RE was slightly faster than the "8x" aka 6x DVD+RW. The write was 8 seconds slower and, surprisingly, the verify was a significant 18 seconds faster.

I've never dealt with BD-RE DL before; I can only go by my experience with BD-RE. I didn't change any of the default options for a full erase/format and I think it takes like 30 to 45 minutes to do it. 3 hours sounds a little long to me, but there's nothing that says a BD-RE DL has to format at only exactly twice as long as a BD-RE, even though it's only just twice as much space.

I have a 202 MB image file of Macrium Reflect's recovery environment media. I've already determined that writing this file to an 8x DVD+RW is faster than writing to a 24x CD-RW. But, which would be faster? Writing this image file to an 8x DVD+RW or a 2x BD-RE?

I'd hate to say it, but it may also be the LiteOn's fault. LiteOn no longer makes Blu-Ray drives, I think. And my only experience with them shows why. It stopped writing to BD-RE's after 3 months and never properly wrote VIDEO_TS DVD+R DL's. Other reviews of my drive also had it dying after like 2 months. Plus, the last LiteOn DVD drive I had I had to return out of the box because it didn't work right. So, I stopped getting LiteOn products. But, that's just my opinion. Verbatims may fix your issue because I use them as my BD-R's without issues on LG and Pioneer drives.

A CD could have multiple tracks or sessions. In the past, ImgBurn did not read multiple either tracks or sessions, I forget which. So, it may be an issue if the CD has these. Your best bet is, as you say, to just download, install it, and see. Be sure not to get click happy during install or you may end up installing third party offers you may not want. We get enough complaints on click happy installers.

I would say it would depend on if your CD-G machine plays CD-R's. I don't know anything about CD-G's or their players, but I would think ImgBurn should just make a CD image of them and burn them as if they were any kind of CD. Unless they have multiple sessions/tracks. I forget if ImgBurn still doesn't support multiple sessions or tracks, I forget which. You can always try reading a CD-G to image. If it successfully reads to image, then try burning the image to a CD-RW. If it successfully burns, you can see if your CD-G machine supports CD-RW. If it does, then you can test the disc to see if it plays properly. If the CD-G machine won't read it, then it either doesn't support CD-R/RW, doesn't support that particular disc's manfuacturer, or your CD-G machine doesn't read them for whatever reason.

No, ImgBurn just won't do it. ImgBurn was never meant to image a partition. And as long as files aren't locked down by Windows or Administrator privileges, ImgBurn can make backup copies of files. However, what you want to do is best handled by a program dedicated to imaging a partition. I have used Macrium Reflect for years. I used to use Acronis TrueImage but it has never worked right since version 11. The rescue media has failed consistently to work since version 11, and the rescue media is vital to restoring partitions. Without it, you're pretty much screwed. The rescue media would do things like recognize external USB's for loading backups, but when it started executing the restore, it would disconnect the USB HD! Epic fail as the source drive can't be recognized to actually read the source file during a restore. And some rescue media just wouldn't recognize the external USB HD's at all.

Also discovered this Pioneer doesn't Verify music CD-RW's very fast. About half the speed of my LG Blu-Ray burner did. But, the LG never burned 24x CD-RW at a full 24x. It always said write speed miscompare, setting the write to 16x. However, the write actually went to 21x. But, never to 24x.

I don't think I've encountered this before so I think it's an issue specific to my new Pioneer Blu-Ray burner. I believe this is the first time I've tried doing this on this drive. I created a CUE sheet for a music CD. I started burning it and ImgBurn said it was erasing the CD-RW as there were contents on the target disc. It said just Erasing Disc for a few moments and then it started the percentage complete of the erase. However, the percentage complete started at the end and counted down backwards! I never paid attention before on other drives but I don't think it ever did it backwards before. So, can it be specific to this Pioneer Blu-Ray drive? That the drive is returning numbers in reverse order? EDIT: I tried burning the same CUE sheet in my LG Blu-Ray burner, which I used to use to burn CUE sheets, but not use as my reading drive, since it doesn't burning DVD+R DL's properly anymore. It starts the countdown at 8 and increases instead of decreases, as I thought. So, it must be an issue with my Pioneer drive.

Or disconnect your modem before running the installer. You can then reconnect the modem after the installation completes. What I do is stop all Internet activity in ZoneAlarm. It does the same thing and I don't have to disconnect and reconnect my cable modem all the time.

With ImgBurn, you'd have to manually separate the files into 3 4 GB jobs. Or 100 plus separate total jobs to accommodate 500 GB. In fact, the only thing I can think of that would do what you want is some kind of backup program that spans across multiple discs. Something like Macrium Reflect's file backup. However, that won't do what you want because even though the backup spans across multiple discs, the files are stored in a single file name. You won't be able to access the files on the discs like you want to. You'd have to restore them to an alternate location first in order to view them. So, I can't think of any backup program that would do what you want it to do. Doesn't mean there isn't one, just not one that I know of. Things like WinZip and WinRAR would do the same thing as I described Reflect's actions above.

Found a fix on Microsoft's web site. Something called the Windows File And Folder Troubleshooter.

I've got a case where I'm changing the View options of some folders in Windows Explorer. When I close off the window of that folder, though, and navigate back to it in My Computer, the View option is no longer what I set it at. Any idea how I can fix this? Something like resetting the Icon Cache for folder Views?

I checked the properties of the file and Windows lists that the file has NO owner! What I ended up doing was using Unlocker to Delete the file and I just got the file again off of the web site I had retrieved it from to begin with.

I've got a file I can't open, can't copy, and can't delete! It says I need to do these actions under Administrator privileges or to contact the owner. I AM the fucking Administrator and I AM the fucking owner! What the Hell can I do?

After seeing some more of the unedited versions of these episodes (Comedy Central had to censor them here in the US.) it seems you can say fucking but not fuck. Stephen Fry and Josie Lawrence said fucking many times but Greg Proops gets bleeped for saying fuck. So, you can apparently say fucking but not fuck, and you can probably only say fucking if you're British. If you're American, you get bleeped.

I've never heard of a 5.22 GB DVD-5. Even as a conspiracy theory.

Here's something on it: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2014/03/29/dvd_ripping_legalized_uk?utm_source=newsletterENG&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20140404

I was watching some Season 9 episodes of Whose Line Is It Anyway, the British version that aired on Channel Four, I'm guessing, going by the copyright credits. I was wondering something. Can you not say the word fuck on British TV, yet you can say anything else? I saw things in these episodes like naked bums and breasts and people saying goddamn, pussy, and shit, but they bleeped Greg Proops when he said the word fuck.

Discovered this drive doesn't like Ritek 6x DVD-RW. It will write to them, but the discs cannot be verified because the contents cannot be read! Insert them into any drive just causes the drive light to keep flashing. But, most drives don't like these discs, anyway! Only the LiteOns seem to write to these discs correctly.

I read this, but I have to wonder, given today's date, if it's not just an April Fool's Day joke. Is it true the UK is about make it legal to copy CD/DVD/Blu-Ray discs that you own? And that you can copy them to mobile devices and view them how you wish to view them, rather than being locked down to whatever format Hollywood dictated? That as long as you keep the physical copy you bought/were given, you can have a copy for backup purposes? If that is true, would this make the UK the first country to legalize what should always have been legal in the first place?

So, I guess Windows 8's install disc is now a DVD-9? I would guess it would have to be considering about half of Windows 8 must be devoted to the OS restore function files.

Saw a field called Disc Time Stamp under BD Disc Information. What is this field? Is it just the date of manufacture of the BD-R disc? I saw the field was 03/2010, not an exact date, so I was wondering if it was just the month and year the BD-R was manufactured. Also, is there a way to tell when a disc was burned with ImgBurn? Is there some kind of field somewhere that records this information on a BD-R/other disc? If there is, what is it and how can I see it/see it with ImgBurn? I know ImgBurn burned this disc and that it was another BD-R that was read to an image file in ImgBurn.