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  1. 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.
  2. Shouldn't be. Windows installation media is definitely more than 1 folder. And the USB drive is just 1 folder?
  3. You turned ONE folder into an ISO file? That's probably why it didn't boot.
  4. You could try the Windows Media Creator Tool, if it supports Windows 8.1. It will download the necessary files and save them as an ISO, burn to them to a disc, or create a bootable flash drive. It's what I do whenever I want to create bootable Windows discs. Or, if I have one already, I just make an image file with ImgBurn of that existing disc. If I need to add any files or folders to it, I use UltraISO and inject files/folders into the image file.
  5. And you followed this guide noting the specific parts you should use for Windows 8 versus another system? I'm concerned about this "burned under Windows 7 compatibility setting." What exactly do you mean? Do you mean you created a shortcut to ImgBurn on Windows 8 and used Windows 7 compatibility for it? Honestly, I have NEVER gotten a bootable disc made with Build mode to ever boot. Tried a few bootable discs with other bootable applications, but none of them ever worked. If you've got rewritable media, use that so you won't go through discs with failed attempts like you have so far.
  6. I wasn't sure about that. Someone once posted they couldn't burn with ImgBurn and it was because they had a DVD-ROM drive. However, I couldn't remember if WHY they posted was because their DVD-ROM was listed in the targets or if it wasn't and that's why it wouldn't burn. In other words, I wasn't sure whether ImgBurn actually did exclude DVD-ROM drives from the list of Write target devices. Makes sense that it would, but I wasn't certain.
  7. ImgBurn isn't as dead as you might think it is. Now, don't go reading into that that a new version is coming soon. Most likely, it's not. Just that the reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.
  8. Most likely, the cause in an issue like this is the user is attempting to burn a disc in a DVD-ROM drive, one that reads DVD's but does not write them. But, we'd need a log of an attempted burn. Or, at least, the model number of your DVD drive. Other possible cause: the recordable DVD you inserted has already been burned and cannot be added to.
  9. Had a chance to burn my first nearly full BD-R with this replacement drive. It was just under around 238 MB of being full. It burned without incident. However, the nature of this issue is, when it's present, it starts out as intermittent. It may happen and it may not before it escalates into always happening. So, I may have just happened on a case where the issue is present but didn't manifest itself. However, this is probably unlikely and this replacement is probably working as should be expected... for now.
  10. Well, I won't know that until my next nearly full BD-R burn. Until I perform my next nearly full BD-R burn to see if it scratches discs, ruining them, I won't know. Usually, when that happens, a replacement drive works for a few months before it starts up all over again! I just swapped it in, have configured its proper drive letter, and am doing a read of some DVD-RAM contents, which appears to all be going along smoothly... for the moment.
  11. FINALLY got my PROPER LG WH16NS60 replacement today!
  12. Have you tried booting into Safe Mode and see if ImgBurn still misbehaves? Also, given how your WinZip installation may also have been corrupted, you could have some kind of massive Windows problem on your hands.
  13. Thanks! I wasn't sure if, somehow, choosing an IFO might place a layer break pause somewhere in the video referenced in the IFO. I didn't think it did; particularly why I always choose BUP if offered.
  14. I still say don't use the cheap CD media. If LUK hasn't replied back, most likely, there is nothing discernibly wrong with the CUE sheet. Failed to send CUE sheet errors are not necessarily generated by the CUE sheets themselves being bad. It's an error communicating with the drive, which could be media incompatibility or a hardware error of some kind.
  15. What exactly happens when you set a layer break for a DVD Video on an .IFO/BUP file? For example, if you set a layer break on an .IFO and didn't use a seamless layer break, would you still get a layer break playback pause anywhere in the video? What if you set a layer break on a BUP? Thanks!
  16. Multitracks are not supported, as the error message says, by ImgBurn. Is this disc you're trying to copy, perhaps, a DVD made by a DVD video recorder like a Panasonic model? You will get issues trying to image those, too. The only solution for ImgBurn is to use Build mode to create a new disc. Drag and drop all the contents from the root directory of the disc you're trying to copy into Build mode. When you add the VIDEO_TS folder for a DVD Video, if that's the disc you're trying to copy, ImgBurn will ask you if you want to make all the appropriate settings changes for you.
  17. Ritek has generally been mostly 2nd tier quality media. It is known to have a few compatibility issues for people on the board. Particularly the DVD+R DL, but, generally, only the Verbatim are any good to begin with. Sony DVD-R is now made by Ritek after they stopped making their own media. Ricoh/Ritek were the last manufacturer of 8x DVD+RW, but even they have stopped production. FINALLY got LG to send me that replacement NS60. Let's HOPE they get it right this time!
  18. Well, believe it or not, unfortunately, the WH16NS60 IS the best of the worst. You've got basically 4 choices: LG WH16NS60, WH16NS40, Pioneer BDR-212, and the current ASUS model. The NS40 can't properly write DL BD media. The BDR-212 can't properly format 8x Ritek DVD+RW and only Verifies Memorex BD-RE at 2x, but mostly at 1x instead! The ASUS model destroys rewritable media! I tried both Ritek 8x DVD+RW and Memorex 2x BD-RE.
  19. Yeah, don't necessarily believe in the 1,000 years thing. While they will almost certainly outlast your lifespan, I doubt they'll last a millennium. You were supposed to get hundreds of writes out of DVD rewritable media, but it's more like 25 to 50 before they die.
  20. Actually, it's not as crazy as it seems. Different disc manufacturer and different disc type further indicates your drive has a compatibility problem with Verbatim BD-R. My experience with Sony BD-RE was they're cheap, though. The one I had died before its 5th write, but that's typical of the junk Sony has almost exclusively produced since 2002.
  21. LUK is Lightning UK who replied earlier. He's the author of the software.
  22. I am guessing the option to Verify against the image file is enabled by default BUT the user must select the Verify box in the Write menu to enable Verifies to begin with. Unless you actually went in to the Settings at some point and set Verify Against Image File, then it was the default behavior all the time, even if Verify wasn't checked in the Write interface menu. I don't know much about the default settings because I never "configure" ImgBurn. I set all my desired user options and changes years ago and exported the saved settings from the Registry to a .REG file. So, when I install ImgBurn on a new PC, I just run the installer and then double click the .REG file to import the settings. LUK will have to say whether it's a default option or not.
  23. Well, that's something I admit I don't know about the default behavior of the Verify check box on the Write page. Does that mean automatic Verify against image file contents? If you go into the Verify page, there's a specific option to check if you want to Verify against the image file. LUK, does the Verify check box on the Write interface mean automatic Verify against the image file being burned? I'd say it is, but I'm not sure. In the meantime, go into Tools --> Settings --> Write --> Page 1 and make sure Verify Against Image File is checked. If it's not, enable it. If it's enabled, which may be the default, then your previous burns were automatically Verified against the file contents, so they should be fine.
  24. Oh, if it's the guy I'm thinking of, I don't think it's the same person, unless he's using a different user name. We'll know if it's him IF he keeps asking the same questions already answered to him again and again ad infinitum.
  25. There are 2 kinds of Verify in ImgBurn. One is just a read test to see if the data can be read from the disc. The other, the Verify against the image file contents, compares the data written to the disc against the data in the image file to make sure the data was correctly written to the disc. A write can complete successfully but it doesn't mean it's "right." DiscSpeed would, I'd think, just do the ImgBurn Verify first option, the read test. I forget if the Verify against image file is an option set by default or not. It's been a while since I used Kaspersky, and that was a bundled A/V engine from them that ZoneAlarm used. So, I don't know how to disable anything in Kaspersky, sorry. As LUK said, since you said you had written some compressed contents to the disc, the overhead of the OS reading from an admittedly slower optical medium device might be causing it, too. If the read speed from DVD is too slow for you, this MIGHT help. Install Virtual CloneDrive, read the DVD to an image file with ImgBurn, mount the image file to a virtual drive in CloneDrive, and copy the contents from the virtual drive to another location. You will be doing some extra reading and steps, but if the copying from DVD is too long, you might save some time doing it this way.
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