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The Roxio part and the drag files to this folder part makes me think you have Roxio's DragToDisc active. That could interfering with how the drive is reported. Because it keeps seeming to me to be that the drive is returning the wrong media information. Either what you have is a DVD+R or a DVD+RW that is not returning the write media format. Do you have another burner you can put the disc into and see what it returns?

You might want to try these: http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/ I've never used them before, so, I can't say. I just looked around with a Google search to see what I could come up with. Here was where I found that info, if it helps: http://filext.com/file-extension/DMG

Well, there seems to be more going on that what's on the surface. Your drive is apparently returning that disc as a DVD+RW, but, I Googled to make sure and that Manufacturer ID, RITEK-F16-01, is DVD+R media. Which means you can't erase it. It's either blank or already has data on it. If it had data on it, there's no way to write to it.

Yeah, I would use a rewritable Blu-Ray disc if I had them, a burner, and a player. I tried burning a DVD that was small enough to a CD-R, but, none of my players would read it as a DVD. It's almost as if the players can determine the maximum size of a disc being inserted and make assumptions based on that.

I don't own a Blu-Ray burner or a Blu-Ray player to test this, so, I'm only left with the option of asking and see if anyone knows. I was wondering if it was possible to burn a DVD-Video compliant VIDEO_TS folder to a Blu-Ray disc and have it play as a DVD in a Blu-Ray player?

I remembering reading years ago about DL rewritable media. I believe DVDInfo Pro even at one time (Maybe it still does.) would detect if your drive had DVD+-RW DL capabilities. But, I've yet to see a drive or discs appear. Did this never materialize? Is it because of competing, larger media like Blu-Ray and, at the time, HD DVD?

Also, the broad answer is no because ImgBurn can only create images of discs. There's no File extract or IFO extract.

The best part was the cake! Got my favorite. It's a local store's creation called Death By Chocolate. It's two layers of chocolate cake separated by a layer of Twinkee filling and topped with chocolate icing.

Thank you!

You may be right, but, I don't think there was any kind of output from the sys file that indicated anything other than it loaded. Which I believe was the same behavior I had before when it was working. BUT, I hadn't tested my previously working bootable DVD with this computer I got 2 years ago this May. So, you may be right in that the controller is no longer supported. I would attribute it to the controller because I tried it 3 different drives, 2 SATA and one PATA, and they all return the same error. I believe I had used the PATA drive before in my last computer.

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.