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The Set command sets the CDDRIVE part to Z so the command line gets the proper setting. I used it before back when it used to work, so, I don't think it's that. Thanks for the ima, but, I doubt that it will help as I used both my old one that used to work and new one created in Windows 7 and still got the same result.

This is not really an ImgBurn topic, I suppose, but, I've put it here. If anyone wants to move it to somewhere else it may belong, go ahead. I can no longer access disc contents from a disc booted into MS-DOS. I used to be able to boot from a bootable disc and access contents from it. Now, I get this message: CDR101 Not ready reading drive Z Abort, Retry, Fail? I get this from both my old IMA file and a new one I created using a USB floppy drive, formatting it in Windows 7 to create a rescue disk, adding the necessary files to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT, and extracting the bootage image from it in ImgBurn. device=a:\vide-cdd.sys /D:mscd001 in CONFIG.SYS and set CDDRIVE=Z LH a:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:%CDDRIVE% in AUTOEXEC.BAT So, what am I doing wrong now?

I've had about 50/50 results with my RitekG04's after about 5 plus years. Some of them just played with skips. Some were completely unreadable.

I can remember when Memorex used to make a quality product. 11 years ago, I bought some of their CD-RW's which still read to this very day because they weren't CMC products. Also, Memorex Ultra 24x CD-RW's they make now are a quality product because they're MCC product. And, I don't know how it is now, but, Memorex DVD+R used to be made without CMC dye in it, so, it was a decent product at one time.

I don't consider it a conspiracy theory because I've seen it happen. Optodisc used to make a very good quality product then, out of the clear blue, switched to CMC. I wasn't aware of CMC at the time though but came across a post that mentioned it so I checked. Sure enough, that was the problem with my discs not completing burns. But, not before I'd already been tricked into buying another 100 cake stack and replacing my Panasonic standalone DVD recorder.

Did you buy them from a Best Buy store or Best Buy online? If you bought from a store, that might explain the reason why. It seems media destined for brick and mortar stores is more likely to use CMC or Ritek to reduce cost and increase profit. Verbatim also uses CMC for their CD-R's, as I found out earlier in the summer. I ordered them online, though, go figure. Thankfully, the reseller from Amazon.com took them back as "defective." As long as they took them back, that's all I cared about!

I believe Kaspersky is used in ZoneAlarm's AV, which I use. False positives are, apparently, a bane of the software. For the longest time, they had DVDShrink's EXE listed as some kind of virus before they finally updated the definitions so it was no longer a false positive.

Did a search of the board and discovered I'd apparently not quoted Merry Christmas, You Suckers! by Paddy Roberts as my annual comment on the holidays. So, here it is! Merry Christmas you suckers, you miserable men That old festive season is with you again You'll be spending your money on cartloads of junk and from here to New Year, you'll be drunk as a skunk Merry Christmas you suckers, it's perfectly clear that you fall for it all a bit sooner each year If it goes on like this, you will find pretty soon you're singing "White Christmas" as early as June This Christmas card racket will cost you a packet Each season it seems to expand The cards are so clever, though nothing whatever to do with the subject in hand You'll be taking the kids 'round to multiple stores to be frightened to death by some old Santa Claus Then it's parties with spirits and vino and beer Merry Christmas you suckers, and a happy New Year Merry Christmas you suckers, you bleary eyed lot You'll never get rid of that headache you've got but I hope you feel splendid, you certainly should with your stomachs distended with turkey and pudd Merry Christmas you suckers, jump into your cars Roar off to your neighbors to sink a few jars Though your vision is double, just keep smiling through There are others in trouble a lot worse than you Beyond any question, acute indigestion will plague you and make you unwell You won't take the warning, you'll wake up each morning undoubtedly feeling like hell But stick to it suckers, go swallow a pill for this is the season of peace and good will While we patiently wait for that nuclear blast Merry Christmas you suckers, it may be your last

Apparently, someone with more money than sense felt it necessary to shoot a wheel of cheese into space and then retrieve the contents. http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20101209/sc_space/wheelofcheeselaunchedintospaceonprivatespacecraft This news, combined with earlier news about an iPhone made with an ancient meteorite and T-Rex tooth, makes me give pause, especially at this time of year. People are starving in some parts of the world. That cheese could have served a far more humanitarian purpose than as some cosmic joke. I'm all for doing things weird, but, there is a limit, even for me.

Another TV series DVD surprise for me was to discover the recent release of the second and final season of the War Of The Worlds show. Only about 5 years after the first season set was released.

Yeah, I knew of Terrahawks and that it was a Gerry Anderson production, but, I'd never seen it, no.

I remember Silverhawks, if anyone else does.

Yeah, I taped the one episode I thought was good from the series; I wasn't a fan. Time To Kill that aired Monday.

If you're just interested in saving YouTube videos, I use save2PC Light, which is free. It saves them directly in a native format. And the paid version supposedly save the files in HD.

OMG! I was totally floored to learn this series was on DVD. I remember this Gerry Anderson entry from about 15 years ago as the show that aired after Babylon 5 in my syndication market station.

If you really want to "turn off the sound" then I would say the following should work. Delete the two .WAV files in the C:\Program Files\ImgBurn\Sounds folder. I've not actually tried this, so, I can't say if ImgBurn won't return an error message if they're missing or not.

You should have mentioned that in your post.

ImgBurn can make the CD with MP3 files, but, I don't know if it can with .CDA files. I've never tried that. However, you have to take an extra step to create the BIN file. Use the Create CUE tool under Tools and drag and drop the .CDA/.MP3 files. If ImgBurn doesn't support .CDA, then it should tell you, I would think. Add any metadata, etc. to the .CUE file and create the .CUE file. Load the .CUE file for burning (If you already created the CUE file with some other program, you should be able to just load that CUE file for burning.) and you'll need to actually burn the CUE file to a disc. So, use a CD-RW or if you want to use a CD-R, go ahead. After it's burned, use the Read Mode/Create image file from disc in ImgBurn and read the disc you just burned to an image file. It will create BIN/CUE automatically from the disc. I use Alcohol 52% and, if my memory serves me correctly, it does support mounting CUE files as virtual drives. I have used it long enough to remember a point when it didn't, though.

It will show in the log window something like Reading Track 01 of X, if memory serves me correctly. If it's reading any tracks off of a DVD video disc, it will read it to a BIN file.

No, I never meant to imply anything that you were using rewritable discs. I had said I thought I had tried writing a BIN file to a rewritable disc. That's what I meant. The type of disc you're reading from has on bearing on what file type the disc is read to, as far as I know. Only the contents on that disc would matter because it would depend on what created that disc. If a stand alone DVD recorder made it, it may have that Video_RM folder you mentioned. Because I can't think of anything that would create a Video_RM folder. If that's the case, that is most likely is what is causing a BIN file to be read instead of an ISO. If you discover during a read it's reading multiple tracks and you know it's a DVD video disc that plays in a standard DVD player, stop reading the disc and use the Build mode steps I mentioned earlier to drag and drop the VIDEO_TS and any other folders and files to a Build job and create then burn that created image.

Sorry, I caused a bit of confusion there. I had forgotten MDS files were created for BIN files, too. I always thought those type of discs made BIN/CUE files instead of ISO/MDS. Near as I can remember, even if you opened the MDS file for burning, the BIN file won't burn properly. I can't say this for sure though, as I can't remember ever actually trying to burn one to a rewritable disc and see. My memory SAYS I did that and the resulting disc didn't play properly. But, I can't be sure.

If you're getting files in ISO/MDS format, then, I don't see what the problem is. I thought you were getting BIN/CUE files out of trying to read the discs to file format. As for all stand alone recorders recording in multisession format, that may be true now. But, the oldest Panasonic I had apparently didn't do that as I never came across a BIN/CUE read until I tried reading them.

It is most likely the fault of the process used to copy the home videos to DVD. My Panasonic stand alone DVD recorder I use to copy tapes and TV to DVD does the same thing. It only creates BIN files from the discs. What you can do is use ImgBurn's Build mode and drag and drop the VIDEO_TS folder from these discs into a build job. Then, create the disc which will be a standard playing DVD in an ISO/MDS format. If there are any files in the disc root directory or any other folders, be sure to drag and drop them, too, to be safe. If the disc is not a DVD video disc, you can do the same steps above, dragging and dropping all the files and folders into a build job and then create it.

I can recommend the one that LightningUK recommended for me. The LiteOn iHAS324 B internal SATA drive. I've only had it for a week so I can't say what my experience with it really is yet. If you're going to get that drive, make sure it's the B version is what he told me. If you're in the US, you can get it where I got it, from NewEgg.com here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106334&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_- I used to recommend NEC/Optiarc now Sony/Optiarc drives, but, the last two I've had died within 2 months and 5 months respectively. Whereas before, I was getting a good 2 years out of NEC drives. My thus far experience with the LiteOn has been that 8x DVD+R DL's don't really write much beyond 5.7x average write rate. The 6x DVD-RW actually writes at 4x until after about 2 minutes when it then goes to 6x. 8x DVD+RW does something similar, writing at 6x for about 2 minutes then it goes to 8. Anything that takes less than 2 minutes to burn burns at the said lower rate. The NEC's I had before never had these step down speeds. 8x DVD+R DL wrote at 8x for a good deal longer than the LiteOn. And 6x DVD-RW wrote at 6x the entire time; 8x DVD+RW wrote at 8x the entire time. But, with the Optiarcs now dying on me so quickly, I really can't recommend them. Well, I wouldn't get another one. Here's to hoping that this LiteOn does better!

The sad thing is Memorex used to make a quality product. I still have Memorex CD-RW's that still work today almost 10 years after purchasing. Memorex apparently uses MKM for their DVD+R product, so, they may make a decent DVD+R disc. I know their DVD-R are CMC junk, as are their DVD-RAM's. From personal experience.