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Yes, the Disc Layout Editor. I had forgotten what it was called. And that is the X close I was talking about in Advanced Mode. It is after adding files and clicking the X button that triggers this. SOME series of steps triggers this, but I've never been able to determine what it is. The entire UDF label field is replaced when this happens. Usually, the beginning is blank and the trailing end of the string is a series of Chinese, maybe Japanese, characters.

In Verify mode, what is the difference between a Miscompare and a Read Error? I would guess the Miscompare means the data can be read from the disc, but the data is not the same compared to the same spot in the image file. A Read Error, I guess, would be there's no data at all since the disc couldn't be read at that point. Thanks!

A couple of possibilities: 1.) Your burner, the DU-8A5LH, is a slim model drive. Slim model drives are known to be very much junk in most cases. Try getting a half height drive and putting it in an external enclosure. 2.) Your DVD+R was made by Sony. Sony has made little but junk since 2002. Try using something like Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO media or Taiyo Yuden discs. Do NOT get the Life Series Verbatim you find in brick and mortar stores; they're even worse than Sony media. 3.) You may have some luck with a firmware update, but generally they're either not available or don't help a situation like this; they can, though. In Write mode, right click on the drive and choose the last option in the context menu to check for a firmware update. 4.) You could try and see if you can burn at a rate slower than 6x. 4x and 3x are stated as supported write speeds, though it doesn't always work setting the write speed to something else as the drive will simply do whatever it wants to do.

No, I don't click Cancel. I X close the add window interface after adding files so I get back to the Volume field window. That's when ImgBurn "crashes." You probably won't be able to replicate it. It appears to be random, or, more likely, such an unusual set of circumstances to activate it that you don't encounter it normally. For instance, I'd say this happens maybe 1 in 100 times. This has happened on 3 different PC's over the years, so it seems highly unlikely to be an ImgBurn installation fault or bad RAM.

Can two instances of ImgBurn be running simultaneously? For instance, can one invokation of ImgBurn be building an ISO from files and folders while a 2nd instance of ImgBurn is reading a disc to an ISO file, so long as the disc is not being used to add files to the Build mode ISO? Thanks!

Yes, there. In the UDF field. I'll have a label already defined in the UDF field, then go into the interface to add files or folders. When I exit out, sometimes, randomly, ImgBurn crashes and when I choose to continue, ImgBurn goes on, but it has removed my UDF field entry and replaced it with apparently Chinese characters.

I think it depends on whatever file systems are present on the disc. I would guess UDF is preferred over ISO9660 since ImgBurn seems to display the label from UDF, if it's present, whereas Windows will display the ISO9960? I don't know that for sure, though.

I wasn't entirely sure. Then, it's either Daemon Tools or AnyDVD (Despite its name, I thought it had a copy protected CD reading feature, but that may be for audio CD's,. if such things existed.) that had a feature that could read protected game CD's. Or maybe CloneCD instead of Game Jackal.

I've encountered this a few times in the past, but it seems to be random and I haven't been able to isolate the circumstances that triggers it. Sometimes, when exiting the interface where you add files and folders in Advanced mode, ImgBurn will return an error that it "crashed" and offer to close the program, continue, or maybe send a bug report; I forget. I've always just continued and ImgBurn goes on, but it does change the UDF Volume Label of the disc to apparently random Chinese characters. Next time this happens, I'll see if it's possible to send a bug report. I don't remember.

Alcohol probably won't help in this case. I was thinking it was a PS1 Sims game CD, which that would matter. I said it may be copy protection because, at first, I thought it was a Sims PC game disc, which it is. And The Sims is a very popular series, which could mean they copy protected it. But, why you'd be able to copy the contents with File/Windows Explorer if it was protected doesn't make sense, though. Unless you need the original physical disc to start the game each time. I think there used to be something called Game Jackal that was designed to copy copy protected PC game discs.

Oh, wait, this Sims is a PS1 game disc and not a PC game disc? Then, it's not copy protection. What you're most likely encountering is a hardware incompatibility. There are known issues with ImgBurn attempting to read some PS1 discs in some optical drives. For instance, my Mega Man 8 will not read to an image file with ImgBurn. However, Alcohol 120% will read it. So, try using Alcohol 120%. I believe there's a free version.

Given it's a game CD of a popular series, I wouldn't be surprised if there's some kind of protection on it. Yet, if there were, you wouldn't be able to copy over the contents with File/Windows Explorer, I would think. Unless you need the disc to run the game and the software checks for some kind of unreadable sectors as copy protection like the PS1 did.

Technically, I believe there's no difference between USB 3.1 and USB 3.0 other than a name change. I believe they operate at both the same speed. And Type A or Type C also doesn't make a speed difference. They just created Type C ports to save on materials and thus cost to manufacture but can claim to charge MORE because it's named something different, thus "must" be different and justify the price.

There may be a Windows setting that displays file sizes with commas that can be disabled. I don't know. Or, it may be down to the different drives. Are you getting the same results regardless of what drive you're using on each computer? One drive may be returning commas in its results but another isn't.

LG drives are basically the best BD's out there, even though they have their problems. However, they have the least problems of all the BD drives out there. LG also has a very good replacement policy. I just recently had a replacement done on my WH16NS60 because it was improperly writing 8x Imation Ritek DVD+RW discs. I just had to pay to ship the drive to LG and they paid to ship me a refurbished drive. They've done that for me for years. Even when I've had refurbished drives sent to me, they have many times replaced the refurbished drives with refurbished drives. LG drives generally will fail before the one year warranty period has expired, but most BD drives do that, too. That's one of the LG drawbacks. As I previously mentioned, LG DVD drives were known to be picky readers in the past. The first LG DVD burner I had was a clunker. It burned discs that played with skips on playback, even on quality media. BTW, there may be something you can try on that drive that won't image the disc properly. You could try changing the Interface. Tools --> Settings --> I/O --> Page 1 --> Interface It's probably set at SPTI - Microsoft. Try Elby CDIO or the other Interfaces. You may have better luck with one of those.

That's quite unusual. Usually, it's a case of LG's being unable to read discs that other drives will read. I've been using LG's for a long time now and I've found they're not the best readers, sometimes refusing to read discs other drives do. My LG WH16NS60 BD burner appears to be much better in the reading aspect. Very few optical products whose name is on the package were actually made by them. Most companies farm out the production to a select few manufacturers and just slap their name on them.

Okay, so it sounds pretty simple. You want to save 3 YouTube videos to files and send those files on a CD-R to someone else. I believe there are ways to download YouTube videos simply using your web browser, but it's fairly complicated and I'm not sure how to do it. Probably the easiest way to save YouTube videos is a piece of free software called YouTube Downloader HD. Be aware some YouTube videos are locked down and can't be downloaded by pretty much anything. Once you have the 3 files you want to send to someone, the way to put those 3 files on a CD-R is with Build mode, probably best explained in this Guide:

I think to save time wasted on things you may not want, what exactly are you wanting these YouTube songs to be? An Audio CD that plays like any other Audio CD disc in a CD player? Are you wanting the video from YouTube or just the audio? If you want the video, do you want the video playing like a DVD Video disc that when you insert it in a DVD player, it starts playing the video? You say you have some YouTube songs (Even though you apparently don't actually have them.) but the Subject of this post is burning to CD-R. Do you want to make an Audio CD CD-R or do you just want those files downloaded from YouTube to be on a CD-R that you can play on your PC?

Why would a software disc be released on a DVD-RW instead of a pressed disc? Is this disc an archive you had of an original? You're probably encountering an unreadable sector on an old DVD-RW that has simply lost its potency. I would try using File/Windows Explorer to copy the contents in the root directory of this DVD-RW to some other location. It will probably fail because I think your disc has probably gone bad. Rewritable discs don't have longevity for archival purposes. If it does succeed, you can create a new ISO from the contents you copied. The scrambled sector message is probably the only interpretation the software could come up with for the error returned by the drive. I doubt there really is a scrambled sector. I've never heard of scrambled sectors, actually. In fact, I don't see how you can scramble sectors. You can apply copy protection on DVD Video discs, but that's not based on sector protection.

Since you tried both FLAC and MP3, it might not work, but there is the chance whoever you bought them from online didn't do any different processing between the two file types. I use something called freac, Free Audio Converter. So, I'd try first converting from FLAC to FLAC again. The conversion process might change the files into compatible ones. If that doesn't work, try converting the MP3 to FLAC. And then try converting the FLAC to MP3. Generally when I'm creating Audio CD's from containers and there's a failure of some kind, it's usually as a result of an improperly formatted input file. So, I try converting from one file type to another first. Sometimes, converting from the same format to the same also solves the problem so nothing is lost from FLAC. If the CD-RW are CMC, it doesn't really matter, probably. They're rewritable so you're not out anything. Of course, you should avoid CMC discs even if they are rewritable to circumvent any CMC incompatibilities.

Oh, are you burning your own custom made CUE file you created with ImgBurn and a bunch of MP3 or other type of audio container files? Or is this a CUE file made as an image of a preexisting Audio CD? If you're creating your own custom made CUE file, then whatever file Track 3 is might be problematic for conversion. If you are creating your own CUE files, I'd try taking whatever Track 3's file is and use a freeware piece of software to convert it to another file type and create a new custom .CUE file with this new converted file and try burning again. If you can get some, try using CD-RW so you don't waste discs. You can write to CD-RW's multiple times. Another possibility is your DVD drive. I checked on the SDRW-08U9M-U model and it's a slim model drive. Slim model drives are notorious for being problematic. You may want to try finding a half height model USB drive and see if the problem persists. If it does, then it may be something in the image file itself. You've already isolated the discs aren't the problem, causing the same error at the same spot in 2 different kinds of discs including the quality media. If you use a different burner and it still happens, then the problem could be in the image itself. You could also try using different USB ports and try changing USB cables to isolate if it's a USB hardware error. One last thing you could try, though it probably won't work, is to check for a firmware update to your drive. USB drives generally don't have firmware updates available, but it's not always the case. And firmware updates often times don't help problems, but they sometimes do.

Companies often times slap high prices on the cheap CMC media to maximize profits. Very few companies actually make any recordable media anymore. Most were bought up by CMC, including Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden. For NOW, Verbatim still makes their cheap junk but also still makes the higher quality stuff Verbatim and TY used to make. Mitsubishi, I think, still makes the higher quality recordable DVD's, like the DataLife Plus/AZO, for Verbatim. Fewer companies whose name is on the package actually made the items inside. It's mostly CMC or CMC owned subsidiaries, Mitsubishi, and Panasonic who make the media. There can be differences, depending on what the manufacturer is willing to spend. Most just go with cheap CMC media and price it high because most people don't know the difference. And, when they do learn, CMC, has, at least, made one sale before they learned differently. Maxell and TDK used to make higher quality media, but I haven't used them in years. TDK used to make the only CD-R's I trusted in before I found Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO and TY's. However, that was over a decade ago, so I've no idea whether they sold out to CMC or not. I knew Phillips was using CMC 5 years ago because I used to find DVD-R 2 for a buck at Dollar Tree. I decided to plunk down the dollar, most likely knowing I was getting CMC crap. But, if I can't use them, I'm only out a buck, and you never know until you try. Of course... I was out the buck...

Just as I thought. It's probably this: I 12:25:05 Destination Media Type: CD-R (Disc ID: 97m26s66f, CMC Magnetics Corp.) CMC Magnetics makes the cheapest discs out there. Over 50 percent of the problems on this board are caused by CMC cheap discs. When people switch away from the cheap media, the problem generally disappears. Try the Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO CD-R. NOT the Verbatim Life Series you find in brick and mortar stores. Those are CMC. You can generally only find the Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO CD-R in online stores like Amazon.com.

Actually, just for the sake of completeness, I said I had a problem using Waterfox Classic on the Macrium Reflect forums. I only use Chrome for accessing online accounts for my mother so it can uniquely store her sign in ID's and passwords. Otherwise, I use Waterfox and Firefox for sites where Waterflox Classic doesn't quite load them right. Well, I had MEANT to say that, at least.

Just as I thought. I was going to ask for a log, too, to see if it was what I thought it was. This is your most likely culprit: I 17:52:39 Destination Media Type: CD-R (Disc ID: 97m26s66f, CMC Magnetics Corp.) CMC Magnetics makes the worst media out there. You have to buy the right kind of Verbatim when you buy Verbatim. The good Verbatim CD-R are DataLife Plus (NOT the Life Series you find in brick and mortar stores. They will be CMC, too.) or AZO which you generally only find in online stores. CMC media causes over 50% of the problems seen on this board. When people generally switch away from CMC media, their problems disappear. However, in your case, given you had previously problems, there's no guarantee, which there never is. In this case, though, the first thing I'd do is switch away from CMC Verbatim and go for DataLife Plus/AZO, which is the best media out there. Yes, Verbatim releases both the best AND the worst. You have to selectively shop. And, sadly, CMC OWNS Verbatim. These were the last good CD-R I bought, but I bough them last in 2017. So, I can't say if they're still good or not, but, since you linked Amazon.com, it seems you're buying from them, which is where I got my Verbatim DataLife/AZO CD-R: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008L3HV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1