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I havne't tried that yet, but, I did try just ejecting the tray manually. When I touch the interior part of the tray, where the disc sits, the drive tray then closes. I tried like 3 times in a row and it did it. Then, I did it six times in a row and it didn't!

Do you want me to try and enable something to capture any I/O sent to the drive?

Well, it ain't ConvertXToDVD at all. It was closed and I ejected the drive in ImgBurn and then it immediately closed itself.

I think I may have sussed it out. Because now it happens more randomly. Sometimes I leave the tray ejected with the disc for minutes and remove it and the tray closes. Sometimes not. Just now, ImgBurn immediately ejected the tray and then reloaded it before I could even have a chance to remove the disc. I think it may actually be ConvertXToDVD that does it. I need to see if it happens only if that software is open, but, it was this time when the drive was ejected and then immediately closed. It may just be pseudo-random that it only happens to happen most of the time when I remove the disc from the tray and that the drive doesn't actually know I've removed the disc, of course.

No, it doesn't open the tray and close it immediately. The tray stays open until I remove the disc. THEN, it somehow knows I removed the disc and closes the tray. As for trying to capture the I/O, it doesn't always do this behavior. So, I've no idea when I remove a disc if the tray will close right after I remove the disc or not.

It's only started recently, but I've had some weird behavior going on with one of my drives. Whenever ImgBurn is done burning a disc, it ejects the tray. So, I remove the disc from the tray and sometimes, the tray immediately then closes itself! I've made sure not to push the tray in by accident when I remove the discs and it's still happening. I'm at a loss to explain how the drive knows I've removed a disc and then close the tray kindly for me. Although, sometimes not so kindly as I DON'T want the tray closed sometimes.

Yeah, my test that failed was probably linked to a failing DVD+RW than trying to burn the CD image to a DVD medium. That's why I suggested doing the Read and Write method, first. It's simpler, faster, and may in more likelihood than not work. I don't know what was up with my CD Test image I tried to burned to a DVD+RW. All it had on it was a folder I386 for test data. I don't think it had an audio track on it or a bootable image on it.

It looks like the Write retries and the Verify failure were a fault of the DVD+RW I was using. Even after fully erasing it, the formerly writing 8x DVD+RW was stuck at 3.3x, a common problem, apparently, when this brand of rewritable media starts to fail, as I've encountered it before in the past.

With ImgBurn, you will have to copy them to a hard drive. Either by using the Read mode or using the Build mode and copy the files over from the discs to a file on the HD. I will outline what I consider the easiest and probably most likely to succeed steps to do what you're asking. First, I wouldn't use your laptop at all to do these steps. It already has some problems with it and it seems you tried to connect it to another computer and had difficulty transfer the files in Build mode. I would suggest you use Read and Write mode. I would also suggest using rewritable DVD media, if your laptop drive's DVD drive supports rewritable DVD media. You'll need to use someone else's computer to do this, so, they will need ImgBurn installed or you may be able to copy over the ImgBurn installed files from its folder on your laptop to a thumb drive and use that flash drive on the othe computer. I tested this and it appears to work. Copy over the ImgBurn.exe file and the Languages and Sounds folder, although you could probably get by without the Sounds folder. Now, I tested the following and I couldn't get it to work, so, I would think you may not be able to get away with it. Start ImgBurn and choose Read from the Mode options. Read the first CD to an image on the HD. Then, choose Write from the Mode options. Load the image file you just created and Write it to a rewritable DVD. You will probably get a dialog saying "Your image doesn't appear to be of the correct format for burning onto a DVD." Selecting No will just cancel the operation. Try selecting Yes, hence one reason why you'll want to use rewritable DVD. If after selecting Yes you get a dialog that begins with the same message as above, then, it won't work this way. If it does work this way, then try to see if your laptop's drive will read the rewritable DVD. If it won't, you may have to write to a DVD-R or DVD+R and see if the drive will read that. And, if it does work, then, you'd want to write the images to DVD-R or DVD+R anyway. Repeat for the other 2 CD's. The above didn't work with one test CD image I had, but it did work for a 2nd test of a bootable CD image used to recovery disk partitions in Macrium Reflect. However, I got some write retries and the Verfiy after burn did not work. It just got stuck at Device Ready. So, I suggest you start with the above first, but, you will probably have to go the next steps instead. If the above doesn't work, you'll have to use Build mode. Select Build from Mode. Insert the first CD. Under Build, select the Advanced tab. Select Bootable Disc from Advanced. Check Make Image Bootable. Under Extract Boot Image, choose the drive that contains the CD inserted. Press the blue floppy disk icon. Save the boot image you're extracting to the HD. There may or may not be a boot image on this CD or the other 2 CD's. If there isn't, then, don't worry about making the image bootable so uncheck Make Image Bootable if you get an error message trying to extract the boot image. If you get a dialog saying "Would you like to use the boot image in your current project?" choose Yes. ImgBurn, as it says, will set the options you need for you. I recommend using Advanced input here, so, under Input, choose Advanced. Click on the window of panes that says Show Disc Layout Editor. Navigate to the drive containing the CD you inserted. Drag and drop every file and folder from the CD into the bottom right pane. Then close the Disc Layout Editor with the X in the upper right corner. Press the write button in Build mode and say the image to the HD. Then, go into Write under Mode and burn the image you just made to a rewritable DVD. Test that your laptop can read the disc and if it can, then burn that image you just burned to a DVD-R or DVD+R. Then, repeat for the remaining 2 CD's. The other 2 CD's most likely won't have boot images, but, you never know how they may have them set up. I tested the Build mode I outlined above. It worked, though, I did not test the rewritable DVD to see if it boots. I had to quickly write down the last few steps without thorough testing until I rebooted because those write retries and the Verify that failed caused my drive to be unrecognized by Windows until I powered off and rebooted.

So you're saying these recovery CD's are on the HD of your laptop? Meaning you don't actually have physical CD's? If that's the case, then, you'd need to do what you're doing by connecting the laptop to another computer. There shouldn't have been a problem with a .CAB file. It sounds more like your laptop is having a problem transferring data in general.

When you say you tried unsuccessfully, what exactly did you try and why did they fail? Without that information, I can only offer a few vague options. I don't know anything about laptops, but, do you have a USB port on it? If so, I'd just get an external USB drive and connect it up to the laptop. Then, and this infers that your laptop is still working, i.e. the hard drive isn't damaged, which from what you say, the only problem is with the internal DVD drive, you could transfer the CD's temporarily to the HD and then burn them to DVD's. Only thing I can think of that could be problem, but, I don't think it would be, is I've never tried burning a CD image to a DVD image. So, I don't know if there's any problem burning CD images to DVD. I would guess the CD's are bootable as they are recovery discs. You may then have to use ImgBurn to extract the boot sector and then create a bootable DVD in Build mode with that boot image and copy over the files and folders from the CD's into the Build job. If there is no USB port on your laptop, you'd have to take the CD's to someone you know who would be willing to let you use their drive and PC to copy them.

I noticed while trying to see if Imgburn could create a .DVD from a Nero .NRG file that the file extension .NRG is supported by Create .DVD and that .NRG is a file type that can be loaded into Write mode. Are there some .NRG files that are not Nero's proprietary format? I tried to create the .DVD and to try and burn the Nero .NRG file but it said both times that it was an invalid or unsupported file type. Which I remember it being said in the past that Nero .NRG wouldn't be supported because it's a proprietary format and would therefore cost money to support.

I would also recommend using DVDShrink to remove the subtitles. Unless, of course, you want to keep the subtitles and just turn them off. With that, you'd need to edit the IFO file with IFOEdit. I've done before twice, but, I forget exactly how I did it. Plus, using IFOEdit is for advanced users; even I don't like fiddling with it unless I have to.

Would you say this is a good Blu-Ray burner to buy? In town, stores here offer only 2 options: Memorex and LG. I wouldn't trust Memorex as they tend to use CMC, so, why wouldn't they also go cheap with their hardware. And the old joke I heard was LG stood for lucky good, in that it was lucky good if it worked! Plus, I had an IOMega rebadged LG I got rid of because its burnt DVD's randomly created discs that played with skips on the PS2, even when using good media. So, if I had to choose one of these 2 in town options, I'd go with LG. So, I was wondering if you would recommend an LG Blu-Ray burner?

Also, ZoneAlarm free's last release seemed to fix the Firefox problem. I ended up replacing ZoneAlarm Firewall Free with ZoneAlarm Free Firewall + AntiVirus. The AV side behaves differently in version 10 versus version 9. In 9, Ignore Always always ignored. The same thing in version 10 does MOSTLY that; it ignore always except for things that "not-a-virus" hits like mIRC IRC clients or some FTP software like BulletProof. And, some things that are ignored always AREN'T ignored if you manually do a context menu search on an item. I TRIED pointing this out to the ZA forum, but, they just closed down my threads to effectively shut me up.

I did discover one drawback to using VirtualCloneDrive over Alcohol. Alcohol supports Nero's NRG proprietary format. VirtualCloneDrive does not. However, it's no biggie. If I ever need an NRG I have saved around for test purposes, I can use Nero to burn it to a disc then reimage it with ImgBurn to a format that VirtualCloneDrive supports after creating a .DVD file with ImgBurn because I choose to split my images for reasons I don't want to divulge.

I never saw a reduction in quality CD burning once drives went to CD and DVD burning. So, I'd still say it's probably not a factor.

I've never used a Blu-Ray burner before, so, I can't say for sure. However, I wouldn't think the fact that a burner is a Blu-Ray burner would be a factor in if it is better at burning DVD's than a non Blu-Ray burner.

Never came across a Program Memory Area Update Failure on LiteOns before. I got turned off to LG drives after the IOMega rebanded model I had. It wasn't burning properly to discs. Randomly, discs burnt by it would play back with skips and pauses in the audio and video on the Playstation 2. Reburning those discs on a different drive, using the skipping discs as the source for the image, produced burns that did not skip. Plus, there's the old joke that LG stands for Lucky Good meaning it's lucky good IF it works right. I did eye a Blu-Ray burner from LG that was in a Best Buy in my town. The only other one I've found was a Memorex external. And Memorex is even worse than LG!

I have had success with the Sony/NEC/Optiarc, but, my last one had to be replaced just shortly before a year of use had past. I've also had success with LiteOn drives. Blu-Ray drives are still relatively expensive and the more prohibitive cost is the price per media now. If you have money to spend for a drive and discs then, by all means, go ahead and get one.

Son of a gun! It works! Thanks!

In what folder?

As far as I know, this isn't in ImgBurn, so, I'm making a suggestion for inclusion. If it IS in the software, please tell me how. Anyway, as the Title says, have an option that can be set to load a default saved Project when Build Mode is started. Yes, I can, and do, just use Load Most Recent Project. But, it's a suggestion.

Never mind. I closed down WinAmp, reopened it, and the CD-Text is fine now. Go figure. I think whatever my problem is/was is deeper than I know. Windows Media Player won't let me Change the location of files to rip CD's to and won't even rip at all! It says the file does not exist, has been moved, etc. the typical bullshit non-helpful help message.

I've got a problem with CD-Text for a disc in WinAmp. WinAmp has the correct number of tracks listed, but, it's moved every track name up a track and leaving the last track "nameless," as Track 11. I need a way to clear WinAmp's CD-Text database, if there is such a thing so it can re-read this text from the disc and see if I can get it working as I burned a 2nd version of the disc with slightly altered names. Can anyone help? Thanks!