dbminter

Well, you can shut me up if you get some Verbatim BD and see if you get the same results with ImgBurn. If you don't, then you know it's the Riteks.

Another thing DVDFab isn't doing that ImgBurn might be is it might be failing at Verify on ImgBurn. Discs can complete writes but still be unreadable. That's why I'd be interested to see an actual read test from a DVDFab disc that completes. Load ImgBurn in Read mode on one of these DVDFab discs and see if you get read errors. I would lean more and more towards trying Verbatim BD over Ritek's. See if you have better results.

I'd be willing to bet that even though DVDFab finishes, the discs aren't good. Just because a burn finishes doesn't mean it finished correctly. Have you actually tried playing ALL the content from one of these DVDFab discs to make sure?

One possibility is a BD drive has 2 lasers. One burns CD and DVD and the other burns BD. What may have happened is the BD laser has died, but the DVD laser is still working properly. I've seen both cases where on a BD drive, DVD burned fine but BD didn't and BD burned fine but DVD didn't. Which meant one of the two lasers had died. Maybe that's what has happened in your situation, since you say DVD is fine but BD is not. I also see your BD discs are Ritek. I'd agree with Ch3vr0n that could be the problem. It could also explain why DVD works fine but BD isn't because the DVD's may not be Riteks. Try using Verbatim BD and see if you have better results. I also see you're using a Pioneer BDR-212. My 212 died a few weeks after I got it, which indicates to me, it's the typical junk Pioneer makes now.

I don't think ImgBurn is exactly what you're looking for. "Cloning" a hard drive is a specific operation where you make a backup image of the source drive sector by sector and restore that image to a new location. ImgBurn doesn't do that. It's more of a file backup operation, which some cloning software does. So, ImgBurn won't do precisely what you want. However, you can use it to backup things like My Documents or other user data and restore those files from optical disc, but I don't think that's what you're looking for. My application for cloning hard disks is called Macrium Reflect.

Now, THIS is interesting... About a week ago, the tracking number I was given for the replacement said the package was in my state. Now, for the past few days, the page doesn't load! Says server cannot be found. In addition, the btrak website isn't responding! They were never answering their e-mails before, only answering to queries sent to them on their website. So, they've effectively taken my money and run. Well, I'm giving it until Wednesday to arrive. I've been more than patient and waited long enough for nothing to arrive. After that, I'm protesting the charge with Paypal. If they say it's been took long, I'm taking my complaint to my credit card company itself.

Really, it won't matter. Unless you're writing directly to disc, Build mode will create an ISO, anyway, which must be burned. And reading a disc to ISO means you've already got the disc burned/complete to begin with. However, if you're just trying to make a copy of a disc that already exists (And isn't protected.), just use ISO Read mode. It's easier.

Yep, there's your problem. Just as I thought. I 09:49:52 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: CMC MAG-D03-64) You got the Life Series Verbatim, which is the CMC junk. Don't use those. They will fail 9 times out 10. Don't get the Verbatim you find in stores. Get the DataLife Plus/AZO/MKM series you only find in online stores. Those are the good Verbatim. There is only one quality brand of DVD+R DL out there, for now, anyway. And that's the DataLife Plus/AZO/MKM series.

The most likely cause is you're using Verbatim Life Series DVD-9's. If you bought them in a store, they're Verbatim Life Series. Life Series is the CMC junk Verbatim makes. The good Verbatim stuff is the MKM DataLife Plus series you only find in online stores. Post a log of a failed burn. That will tell if you're using the right Verbatim or not. Since you've tried both burning an ISO and creating a new disc from Build mode with the VIDEO_TS and get "burn problems," that indicates the discs being the problem. Or the drive. Or a combination of both. Also what "problems" are you running into when burning? Probably a failure to Write/Verify at the layer break, a common problem with CMC media.

I don't think I did a Christmas quote last year because I ran out of songs. But, here's a spoken word piece to make up for it. It's called Christmas Countdown by Frank Kelly. Day One Dear Nuala, Thank you very much for your lovely present of a partridge in a pear-tree We're getting the hang of feeding the partridge now, Although it was difficult at first to win its confidence It bit the mother rather badly on the hand But they're good friends now and we're keeping the pear-tree indoors in a bucket Thank you again Yours affectionately, Gobnait O'Lúnasa Day Two Dear Nuala, I cannot tell you how surprised we were to hear from you so soon again and to receive your lovely present of two turtle doves You really are too kind At first the partridge was very jealous And suspicious of the doves and they had a terrible row the night the doves arrived We had to send for the vet but the birds are okay again And the stitches are due to some out in a week or two The vet's bill was 8 but the mother is over her annoyance now And the doves and the partridge are watching the telly from the pear-tree as I write Yours ever, Gobnait Day Three Dear Nuala, We must be foremost in your thoughts I had only posted my letter when the three French hens arrived There was another sort-out between the hens and the doves, Who sided with the partridge, and the vet had to be sent for again The mother was raging because the bill was 16 this time But she has almost cooled down However, the fact that the birds' droppings keep falling down On her hair whilen she's watching the telly, doesn't help matters Thanking you for your kindness I remain, your Gobnait Day Four Dear Nuala, You mustn't have received my last letter when you were sending us the four calling birds There was pandemonium in the pear-tree again last night and the vet's bill was 32 The mother is on sedation as I write I know you meant no harm and remain your close friend Gobnauit Day Five Nuala, Your generosity knows no bounds Five gold rings! When the parcel arrived I was scared stiff that it might be more birds, because the smell in the living-room is atrocious However, I don't want to seem ungrateful for the beautiful rings Your affectionate friend, Gobnait Day Six Nuala, What are you trying to do to us? It isn't that we don't appreciate your generosity But the six geese have not alone nearly murdered the calling birds But they laid their eggs on top of the vet's head From the pear-tree and his bill was 68 in cash ! My mother is munching 60 grains of Valium a day And talking to herself in a most alarming way You must keep your feelings for me in check Gobnait Day Seven Nuala, We are not amused by your little joke Seven swans-a-swimming is a most romantic idea but not in the bath of a private house We cannot use the bathroom now because they've gone completely savage And rush the door every time we try to enter If things go on this way, the mother and I will smell as bad as the living-room carpet Please lay off It is not fair Gobnait Day Eight Nuala, Who the hell do you think gave you the right to send eight, Hefty maids-a-milking here, to eat us out of house and home? Their cattle are all over the front lawn And have trampled the hell out of the mother's rose-beds The swans invaded the living-room in a sneak attack And the ensuing battle between them and the calling birds, Turtle doves, French hens and partridge make the battle Of the Somme seem like Wanderly Wagon The mother is on a bottle of whiskey a day, as well as the sixty grains of Valium I'm very annoyed with you Gobnait Day Nine Listen you looser! There's enough pandemonium in this place night and day without nine drummers drumming, while the eight flaming maids-a-milking are beating my poor, old alcoholic mother out of her own kitchen and gobbling everything in sight I'm warning you, you're making an enemy of me Gobnait Day Ten Listen manure-face, I hope you'll be haunted by the strains of ten pipers piping Which you sent to torment us last night They were aided in their evil work by those maniac drummers And it wasn't a pleasant sight to look out the window And see eight hefty maids-a-milking pogo-ing around with the ensuing punk-rock uproar My mother has just finished her third bottle of whiskey, On top of a hundred and twenty four grains of Valium You'll get yours! Gobnait O'Lúnasa Day Eleven You have scandalized my mother, you dirty Jezebel, It was bad enough to have eight maids-a-milking dancing to punk music on the front lawn but they've now been joined by your friends the eleven Lords-a-leaping And the antics of the whole lot of them would leave The most decadent days of the Roman Empire looking like Outlook I'll get you yet, you loud bag! Day Twelve Listen slurry head, You have ruined our lives The twelve maidens dancing turned up last night And beat the living daylights out of the eight maids-a-milking, 'Cause they found them carrying on with the eleven Lords-a-leaping Meanwhile, the swans got out of the living-room, Where they'd been hiding since the big battle, And savaged hell out of the Lords and all the Maids There were eight ambulances here last night, and the local Civil Defence as well The mother is in a home for the bewildered And I'm sitting here, up to my neck in birds' droppings, empty whiskey And Valium bottles, birds' blood and feathers, While the flaming cows eat the leaves off the pear-tree I'm a broken man

Unfortunately, the fact of the matter is not all PS discs can be read to image files with ImgBurn and certain hardware. I've encountered a few in my collection that couldn't be imaged with ImgBurn. I had to use Alcohol 120% to read those to image files. I believe there's a free version, though it lacks all the features.

That's not the log. That's the information that shows up when you first start ImgBurn. Apparently, if you're getting an invalid image message, you're not even generating a log because no actual operations have been performed. With an invalid image loaded up, ImgBurn won't proceed to do anything and thereby waste a disc. Did you make this image or download it from somewhere? What's the image file name? It has to end in .ISO, .MDS, or .DVD. And those last two generally only matter if an image is split up into multiple parts. My guess is, particularly if you downloaded it from somewhere, the image file is corrupt/incorrect format.

What you set and what you get are not always the same. Discs are rated for minimum and maximum write speed strategies, determined by the flags on the discs themselves and the firmware in your drive. The bottom line is, you may have 16x write rate, but not get 16x. And, the opposite also happens. You may get a write rate set to a slower speed, but only the minimum allowed speed is used for that media/firwmare combination.

That worked, thanks! I've rarely used Device Manager for anything in the past and didn't even think about trying it.

Is there any way to "hide" drives from ImgBurn's view? I have an internal optical drive that really can't be used anymore. I removed it from Disk Management so it doesn't show up in File Explorer, but it still shows up as a drive, sans a letter, in ImgBurn's view. I was wondering if there was a way to convince ImgBurn to ignore this drive. Short of physically removing/replacing the internal drive. Thanks!

Yeah, what you're looking for is to avoid CMC. What you want (In most cases. Not all drives work the same way, like the WH16NS60 BD burner.) is Verbatim DataLife Plus discs. Or, as LUK said, ones listed as AZO. DON'T get the Life Series Verbatim you find in stores; those are CMC. The DataLife Plus/AZO discs are only found in online stores like Amazon.com.

Ah, you're right. It was .DVD files I was thinking of.

Here's the technical reason. I think if you set the option to do so, MDS files are created with exact directory names pointing to the file names. So, unless those parts are copied into the same directory structure with the same names as in that kind of MDS, the MDS file won't work. However, I think the default is MDS files are created with just file names, so the MDS file will look in the same directory that the MDS file is located in. Another workaround for that case is to edit the MDS file, which is just a simple text document, to remove the directory structure names from the file names.

Splitting DVD-9's onto 2 DVD-5' was something I used to do back before they made DVD-9 recordable discs. I'd take a DVD-9 and image it, with file splitting at the 1 GB mark, and then copy the first 4 parts to one DVD-5 and the remaining parts to the 2nd. So, your idea to split into parts and e-mailing them is feasible. The recipient can then collect all the parts and MDS into one folder. For somewhat technical reasons, the MDS may not work when sent to him. If it doesn't, he can always use ImgBurn on his end and create a new working MDS from the parts.

I think the OP might be someone who was asking previously about how to image a disc into multiple ISO files for splitting. And I think, maybe, they think the File Splitting option would do that for them. Something about a flight simulator disc, I think, if it's the same person.

No, because there's no need. XX.100 and XX.101 are NOT ISO's. They are two parts of the SAME ISO. You don't need to recombine them because the MDS file will combine the two parts into the one ISO you created when you burn the MDS file.

Those aren't two ISO's you created. When you use the split files function, you've created a string of separate files for one image. It's still a single disc. But, in order to burn the single disc, load the .MDS file in the Write function. There's no way to burn each individual part. And, even if you could, you would not get a viable disc in the end.

Well, as you can see from my last reply, the 24th of July, how long it took, but I got those Chinese people to SAY they sent me the proper thing this time. They said they looked it up and they did send me the wrong item. Got a new tracking number with a different shipper, but I still bet it takes 2 months like before. And, if they send me disposable GLOVES this time I'm requesting a refund and if I don't get it, I'm disputing the charge. If Paypal won't dispute it because too much time has passed, I'll take it up with my credit card themselves. I've been more than fair in trying to get the company to resolve this issue, but my patience only goes so far.

The short answer is, no, you don't. The easiest solution is to use a DVD DL. However, there is a way, but it's a bit complicated and it may not work as intended. For instance, if this flight simulator runs from the disc, you need all the files on one disc. If it's just an installer disc, you can split the contents up into two discs and when you need to install it, copy the contents from both discs to a temporary folder on an HDD, SDD, or flash drive. However, the installer might be expecting the contents on a disc as a copy protection method. If the software runs from the disc without needing to be installed, you can copy the contents of the discs(s) to HDD and run it from there. Anyway, what MIGHT work is to create 2 different ISO's where you've split the contents across ISO's. Some in one ISO and the rest in the 2nd. Then, burn each ISO onto separate DVD-5's. What you might want to invest in trying, though, is get a cheap flash drive with 6 to 8 GB on it and copy the contents to a flash drive instead of having 2 different optical discs.

Most likely, your drive doesn't like those Sony made discs. There are 2 things I'd try. If you're insisting on using these Sony discs, which I wouldn't because Sony has made little but junk since 2002, you can try checking for a firmware update to your drive. Updating the firmware would probably be the only way to get that drive and those discs to work together. In Write mode, right click on the drive letter and choose the option near the bottom of the context menu about checking for a firmware update. The thing I would do is try using different discs. I recommend Verbatim DataLife Plus or genuine Taiyo Yuden. Do NOT get the Verbatim Life Series you find in stores. Those are even worse CMC junk. Even though CMC now owns Verbatim! You can only find the DataLife Plus/AZO discs in online stores like Amazon.com. Although, granted, I don't think I've ever come across a No current error before.