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It's interesting you're getting failures with DL BD media on the WH16NS60. The NS40 definitely doesn't properly write DL BD media. Failing 9 times out of 10. Which is why I tried the NS60. While I've never written a DL BD-R in it, BD-RE DL burned in all tests I threw at it. So, I can't explain why it's failing on the NS60. As for the ASUS model, I never actually got writing BD-R media, let alone DL, before I determined it was junk. Doesn't properly write to rewritable media. DESTROYS DVD+RW and BD-RE media on writing to them. Since you're tried different computers with the same drive media, the problem must be the drive or the media. And since you've tried different burners and different unique copies of burners, the problem does appear to be with the media.

Yeah, if a different drive can read a disc and yours can't, the problem is most likely the drive. Either the physical drive itself or some kind of connection to it in the PC, either hardware or software.

Talk about a slow boat from China... LITERALLY! I ordered a backup copy of a WH16NS60 from a website around June 13th. It STILL hasn't arrived yet! It's in the US, though, worming its way to me slowly. Had I known the seller was going to ship from , I wouldn't have bought it. In addition to the slow turnaround time, there's COVID-19 you have to worry about now! So, when the package arrives, rest assured, it will be wiped down, with gloves on, and, once opened, the interior box will also be disinfected.

It isn't for me. Would it have anything to do with settings I imported via a .REG file? I only imported them once, but could that have something to do with setting the window position?

Does ImgBurn NOT remember the location of the log window between instances? The reason I ask this is I moved the log window to the bottom of my Desktop real estate and closed ImgBurn. When I opened it again, the log window was NOT at the bottom of my Desktop real estate. I moved the window again, closed ImgBurn again, reopened it, and it's repeatable. If it does NOT remember the window location, please in future releases, save the location of the log window. As it stands now, in the current configuration, whenever the Operation Completed Successfully box with the OK button appears, it sometimes appears partially BEHIND the log window. Thanks!

The last time I tried creating a boot disc was like a decade ago. I tried creating Acronis True Image bootable media and a Windows installation bootable media. But, given how long ago it was, I remember little about the results except they wouldn't boot, but I do remember never seeing the flashing results you described. Just a failure to boot the disc.

My flash drive installation files of 2004 are less than 4 GB. But, maybe the installation in question covers both 64 bit and non versions. The USB media may have been created specifically with the version of Windows installed on the system that ran the Media Creation Tool.

Maybe not. Someone recently tried getting a bootable image with the guide for Windows 10 with the contents of an installation disc and it wouldn't boot. But, that may have been a UEFI issue that was resolved when he chose the proper boot type. From my experience, I've NEVER gotten a bootable disc to boot by creating it with ImgBurn in the 15 years I've been using the application.

Just remember the ISO's won't work properly if ImgBurn rips a copy protected DVD. It will still probably make the ISO, but they won't play properly. ImgBurn will warn you if a disc is protected first before attempting to make the ISO, though.

Reading a disc into an image file just means making an ISO from a disc. If a disc can be read into an image file, then those little scratches shouldn't be a problem. However, with CD's, it can be. For instance, I've had audio CD's that read perfectly to image files, but when those image files were played back, there were skips in the audio. Precisely where there were skips in the audio on the physical CD's from damage. DVD, however, should be a different beast. But, I can't guarantee it won't affect the ISO being made. As I said, your only sure fire, 100% guarantee is to play the contents of the ISO in its entirety before getting rid of the physical disc.

The best thing to do for little scratches is to see if those scratches prevent reading a disc into an image file. If they don't, then, burn a new disc with that image file. With little scratches that might hiccup playback but not reading a disc, you can fix those by just burning a disc with no scratches. Plus, better to get that backup before those scratches get worse.

Oh, I see what you meant. You mean like little skips and hops and pauses in playback or pops in audio. Well, those wouldn't really be bad sectors, but scratches on the disc. And those are a little harder to find. Most of the methods I mentioned wouldn't find those. My methods were for unreadable parts of a DVD. Not just things like little scratches that might cause momentary "bumps" in playback. As I said, there's very little you can do to test for those except actually play the entire contents on a DVD. As for the encrypted parts, even if a VIDEO_TS is encrypted, as long as it isn't encrypted with sector encryption, you can still use File Explorer to copy the VIDEO_TS contents to a hard disk. You can't play the VIDEO_TS contents this way if they're protected with CSS, though, This just performs a basic read test, looking for bad sectors. As I said, all of my methods mentioned were looking for problems that would prevent part of a DVD from being readable. Not for playback hiccups caused by small scratches. While my methods would work for larger scratches, though. 10x is a fast forward/reverse scanning speed available on the PS3. Some players don't have numbered speeds like that, but have graduated, usually in 5 units, bars to indicate how fast you're scanning. The PS3 has 1.5x normal playback speed, 10x, 30x, and 120x. What software returned the unknown error and said you needed to upgrade? Depending on what you use to create the ISO, it may or may not work. For instance, anything protected by CSS or any other protection won't read into an ISO by ImgBurn. Well, it WILL but ImgBurn will warn you the results won't work. So, maybe you had DVD's that weren't protected. For discs that are protected by CSS, as I said, DVDShrink will read to ISO. AnyDVD will also work on CSS and sector protected DVD's but, unlike DVDShrink, AnyDVD isn't free, although there is a limited time, full featured trial. You ask too many questions! Go away! Just kidding. We're all newbies at one time. I've been doing this for 18 years, so I've learned by mostly trial and error, what I've read, asking, and reading what others tells me. Forums like here are a good place to learn things like these.

There are a few ways. Since you're already wanting to read these DVD's to ISO's, just try reading to ISO's. If there's a bad sector, the read will fail. You could always try copying the contents with File Explorer. While the VIDEO_TS, if encrypted, won't be readable, it will determine if your disc can still be read. Now, with advanced copy protection discs, this probably wouldn't work. Another thingyou can do is play your DVD in a player but Scan the contents fast forward through them at a relatively slower rate, like 10x on the PS3, which is what I do. Then, just test scan all the contents on the disc. If you get pauses in the scan, you've probably got bad sectors. Another thing that might work is a manually executed Verify on the discs without the verify against file option check. This basically performs a read test similar to creating an ISO from a disc without actually writing the ISO. Now, of course, with CSS and sector protected DVD's, you'll need a translating layer like AnyDVD active when performing the ISO creation tests with ImgBurn. DVDShrink, which is free, will work for CSS discs but not sector protected discs.

MPC-HC was just updated to 1.9.6.24 today. https://www.softexia.com/windows/multimedia/codecs-media-plugins/k-lite-mega-codec-pack#changelog

It's not unusual for ImgBurn to get stuck analysing tracks when reading a game disc. WRITING a game disc image, though, is another thing. You waited long enough for the program to do something, so ImgBurn is just getting stuck. I don't know how it is on Saturn games, but on PS1 games, some discs simply can't be copied with ImgBurn, "freezing" at Analysing tracks. What I do in cases like this is use Alcohol's free version to copy those discs. You may want to try installing Alcohol's free version to burn this disc image.

You're right about PowerDVD. It's probably the best DVD/Blu-Ray player software out there, but, as a container file player, it leaves a lot to be desired. I just prefer MPC-HC because it does what I need it to do for DVD and it's free. Can't beat the price!

VLC doesn't deserve the praise heaped upon it. It doesn't even properly play back DVD's which Media Player Classic - Home Cinema handles fine. MPC-HC is still updated, but not "officially." "Officially," it was abandoned in 2017, but the makers of the K-Lite Codec Pack keep updating it. In fact, an update just came out the other day. I've been using it for years. It replaced WinAmp as my primary audio container play back software and Windows Media Player as my video container play back software. And now I use it as my DVD player because not only does it play discs, but it plays .IFO, VOB, and VRO natively. Those scratched discs could merely be a result of shipping jostling. Or, manufacturer defect from the factory. I'm not sure what you mean by page cells. As for the end of the world problem, I believe the other applications get around this by simply designating a layer break wherever they want to. But, they usually don't bother to make it seamless, so it's not much of an option. I don't know why ImgBurn doesn't allow the user to do the same thing. As for how I get around the end of the world issue, I use DVDShrink to shrink down the contents 1% at a time until the resulting input VIDEO_TS is acceptable. Follow up on my replacement WH16NS60 from LG. Thus far, it has handled everything I've thrown at it, and I've given it a few CD reads and writes, a few DVD read and writes, a few DL DVD reads and writes, a few 8x DVD+RW writes, and a few BD writes.

There is a free version, but it does not support its File And Folder backup option. There is a 30 day free trial of the Home version, but I don't know if it supports FAF backups, too. I think it does for the 30 days, then the installation regresses to the Free version, which won't handle FAF backups. Apparently, even existing ones won't be read in.

No, not with ImgBurn. You have to create multiple image files. For what you want, you'd need some kind of dedicated file backup application. The one I use is bundled in my disk imaging program, Macrium Reflect.

Switching discs is the cheapest and easiest method, but there MAY be others. Not guaranteed to work, but they may. 1.) replace your DVD burner with a different make, manufacturer, and model. No guarantee any new burner will like those CMC's any better than yours, but there's always the possibility. The easiest way to do this is to try USB external burners. 2.) check for a firmware update for your DVD burner. In Write mode, right click on the drive letter of your burner on the left hand side and choose the Check for firmware update option near the bottom of the context menu. No guarantee a firmware update will fix the problem. And, in some cases like Pioneer, firmware updates can make a drive WORSE!

You say you use BENQ DVD which is a good one, but this line of log betrays that: I 20:48:35 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: CMC MAG-D03-64) There is only one quality manufacturer of DVD+R DL and that's Verbatim DataLife Plus. NOT the Life Series you find in stores; those are CMC. You can only find the DataLife Plus stuff online. CMC is the worst manufacturer of optical media out there. About half the problems we see on this board are caused by cheap media, and CMC is the cheapest. Ironically, they now OWN Verbatim but, at least, haven't changed the manufacturing process... YET! Most problems people have on this board disappear when they switch from CMC to DataLife Plus Verbatim, and I expect your problem would go away, too. Notice the write error is shortly after the layer change from 0 to 1? DL media failure will more often than not occur at the layer change.

The miscompares are either your hardware is going bad, you're using cheap discs, your drive's firmware needs updating, or there's an incompatibility between the write strategy for that media. We'd have to see a log with miscompares to know more. The 99% "freezing" may not be what you think it is. How long did you wait at 99%? It can take up to 10 minutes to format disc and you were using 2x, it seems, so it will probably take longer. And some hardware and ImgBurn combinations only list the 99% value and don't offer a countdown of format time. Extracting the ISO of a bootable disc probably wouldn't work because, as I said, there are two "sides" to a bootable disc. One side you see is the contents listed in File Explorer. The other side is the boot sector, which contains all the necessary files to do the actual booting. The only way I know to see that boot sector side is to extract it to an IMG file and open it with an IMG edtior. I had wondered if the Legacy/EFI booting thing might be a problem here since the introduction of EFI.

There's bootable and then there's "bootable." Booting usually means two phases. The part that actually starts booting and then the part that runs after booting. I still say you need an extracted boot image to get all the necessary bootable files onto the boot sector in order to start a Windows boot. However, I've never gotten a single bootable disc to ever boot, so I'm not going to be of much help. As I said, I just use the Windows Media Creator tool to make all my Windows bootable discs and flash drives. Saves me the trouble of mucking around getting nothing to ever work. Although for Windows 8, I don't think it's supported anymore, just 8.1. But, you could try the ISO Download tool. https://www.softexia.com/windows/internet/download-managers/windows-and-office-iso-download-tool I'd just snag a Windows 8 ISO with this tool, but, didn't you also say you were streamlining all the latest updates and service packs into your Windows 8 installation? That may be why it isn't working. You're trying to boot from a Windows 8 installation that has been "modified." Otherwise, you'd just take your Windows 8 installation media and Read an image of it and burn that. So, you need this specifically to work, which I can't help you with.

Oh, have you not been burning these failed discs with ImgBurn? You've been using Windows itself to write ISO's? Try creating an image file with the guide and then use ImgBurn in Write mode to write that image file to a disc. See if that works. Windows burning engine has been known to be less robust than ImgBurn.

What is the name of this source folder? Is that the only folder on your burned disc? Those sub folders in this 1 source folder should all be in the root directory of your burned disc. Otherwise, there's nothing to load to start installation. Okay, I went over the instructions in the guide and there seems to maybe be a missing important step. As far as I know, you need to extract the boot sector from a Windows 8 installation disc that already boots before it will work. But, then again, I never got a bootable disc to work, so what do I know? Under the Bootable disc tab, use the Extract button, the blue floppy disk icon, to extract the boot sector using the target of the root directory of an inserted bootable Windows 8 installation. Then, under Boot image, point it to the Boot Image you just extracted from the bootable Windows 8 installation disc. See if that helps. If that doesn't help, I still say you need more than 1 folder in the root directory of your burned disc, if there is only 1.