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All 42 Verbatim DataLife Plus inkjet printable BD-R burned a week ago successfully completed manual Verifies. So, I am relatively confident these are high quality discs. And if I had to hazard a guess, if there are DataLife Plus BD-R DL, even if they are inkjet printable and therefore cost more for a feature you most likely won't use, they would be better quality than any blue and white branded Verbatim BD-R DL. I am paying more for the inkjet printable feature which I most likely won't use, but it beats paying for crap that is terrible quality.

18 discs passed manual Verify thus far. 24 left to go. I don't foresee any future problems, but that's why I do these checks.

I got similar results with my last batch of branded blue and white Verbatim BD-R. The first one completed Write and Verify without errors. Then, 3 failures in a row to complete Write. On both an ASUS and an LG, so it was the media. So, I made sure to image that one successful Write and Verify to reburn to a different disc in the future when I got good media. BTW, a tip for the future. You can copy and paste the contents of error window dialogs in ImgBurn. When an error window pops up, just make the error window the focus and use CTRL+C to copy the contents of the error message to the Clipboard. Then, you can Paste that info, say, to a text file or just directly into a post on these forums.

Well, you'd be surprised. Zip Drives, introduced in 1995, are pretty much obsolete, yet you can still find them in use today. You can still get after market replacement parts 30 years later. I think the primary problem will be finding HUMANS in 1,000 years time! LOL

I decided to get a general preview of what the manual Verify runs might give me on Sunday, when I plan to start them. I manually Verified the first 2 oldest discs. Being the 2 oldest discs, done first, they'd have the higher likelihood of going bad first if they are like the first batch of branded blue and white Verbatim BD-R that would complete Writes and Verifies but would be partially unreadable after a few days. Both of those 2 oldest discs passed manual Verifies.

Well, my first step would be to get some Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO discs (NOT Life Series.) or Taiyo-Yuden/CMC Pro discs, but you wouldn't be able to get them with just $5 American. You can only find the high quality stuff like that in online stories, usually.

From what you posted from the change log history of the firmware TL/QL support for reading and writing was available and one point but removed at a later point. Whether it was ever restored or not is up for debate, but it seems unlikely they would restore something after taking it away. And the most likely reason the TL and QL support was removed was so that no one would even DARE to think about copying a 4K Blu-Ray.

I would also check that the extension is correct in File Explorer as it could mean you may need to rebuild your icon cache.

That last screenshot says it all. BD-R XL and BD-RE XL read and write are not supported. So, reading TL and QL media is not possible on this drive/firmware and writing isn't supported either.

I would blame this: Disc ID: MBI01RWG 20 I've never heard of that DID before so it's probably a cheap media disc. Or it's a type of DID that your HL-DT burner doesn't like.

I had a backlog of lots of data to archive to BD-R. I had some partition backups from January 1st that couldn't be copied to BD-R at the time because the old Verbatims weren't trustworthy anymore and I needed to order some of the DataLife Plus ones to test and see if they were good. There was a 300 GB and 500 GB backup I was able to use with 42 discs from this 50 disc cake stack and a 500 GB and 800 GB partition backup still left to do. See, I HAVE to do these kinds of things so others don't have to. These are the kinds of things that happen to me. Like a batch of Verbatim BD-R that would complete Write and Verify but be partially unreadable a few days later. I only happened to "luck" out noticing it early before I used more than 11 discs, but I did permanently lose some data as a result.

I've completed 14 more successful Writes and Verifies. That makes up the majority of the discs in this cake stack. As I previously said, now I just need to wait until Saturday and perform a mass manual Verify on each of these 42 discs. Then, I should feel relatively comfortable stating the DataLife Plus inkjet BD-R are still of high quality.

ImgBurn doesn't do any conversion. BIN/CUE is how ImgBurn generally saves Audio CD's. Data CD's/mixed mode stuff like Sega Saturn games would be saved as disc image files since BIN/CUE is only necessarily for Audio CD's from ImgBurn's point of view. Whatever would have created Sega Saturn games as BIN/CUE probably shouldn't have done that in the first place.

I've finished 11 more successful Writes and Verifies. So, I don't foresee these failing to complete burns successfully. However, I still need to wait 1 week and do manual Verifies on these discs. My first bad batch of branded blue and white Verbatim BD-R would successfully complete Writes and Verifies but be partially unreadable after only a few days. A week has been a good indicator with the replacement batch I got which appeared to be fine before the 3rd batch wouldn't even complete Writes.

I just finished completing 17 Writes and Verifies. I order all of my optical discs from Amazon.com. I get DataLife Plus/AZO for everything from Verbatim. Except the BD-R which used to be fine but aren't anymore. Now, it seem the DataLife Plus inkjet option is the only way to go. I get some 8x DVD+RW from Memorex because they're the only ones you can find on Amazon and eBay anymore. And I get some Memorex Ultra Speed CD-RW off of eBay because that's the only place you can find them. Memorex didn't farm those out to CMC like they usually do and instead used Mitsubishi, which makes Verbatim's high quality media.

I'm based in the United States, so I can't say for absolutely 99.99% certainty (Nothing is 100% certain. A basic law of probability and statistics. ) but I would say those are the same as the ones I've bought from Amazon.com over the years: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00008L3HV?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001LS35W?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1

AZO discs are some of the best out there. AZO are Verbatim's DataLife Plus series. Unlike their Life Series, which are the CMC Magnetics crap, the DataLife Plus series are sometimes labeled as AZO, which are the better brands of discs out there. So, yeah, basically look for DataLife Plus and/or AZO when shopping Verbatim brand discs.

Hm, yeah, I don't think I've ever seen that kind of interface before.

If I were to analyze this situation, I'd first ask how old the drive is and how much use has it gotten. Depending on the answers to those, it could be a drive issue. To answer if it were a media issue, it would depend on the manufacturer of the recordable discs in question. You say you were using Verbatim CD-R, but if they were the CMC Magnetics junk, I can see them having read back issues 15 years later. And if the DVD-R were also CMC's, that could explain it. However, pressed discs (The ROM kind.) being readable and the recordable not being readable could be indicative of a failing laser issue. Pressed discs have a lower read failure rate than recordable discs using organic dyes. And, given how it seems "universal" across the board that pressed discs can be read but not recordable discs, I would lean towards the issue being the drive needing replacing. You could invest $25 in a USB DVD drive and see if it can read those recordable discs. If it can, you know the issue is your old drive had died/is dying.

Ah, then this is not ImgBurn's creating a .CUE file. ImgBurn creates Audio CD's with its .CUE creation function. The file names sound like they're a downloaded PS1 game. The .CUE file is associated with ImgBurn because when it's installed, it automatically Associates itself with .CUE files so when you click on the .CUE file, ImgBurn will automatically open, open it for burning, and let the user proceed from there. ImgBurn is not doing this BIN CUE file creation itself unless you're using Build mode and adding folders from a PS 1 game to it. Which you shouldn't do as the resulting disc most likely won't play.

That's odd. It should theoretically be impossible for .CUE creation to make image files. .CUE files are burned on the fly to CD writable discs. Near as I ever saw, it wasn't even possible to create image files when creating a .CUE in ImgBurn. You are using the Create .CUE File function to make an Audio CD, right? When you say "with the ImgBurn logo," do you mean the image files have the ImgBurn icon associated with them in File Explorer?

I've burned 12 of these DataLife Plus inkjet BD-R thus far. All 12 completed Write and Verify. So, they're thus far ahead of the last batch of branded blue and white Verbatim BD-R I used.

Okay, I just got my first order of Verbatim DataLife Plus inkjet BD-R since Verbatim's branded blue and white BD-R went to trash. I just finished burning a nearly full disc. Only 563 MB were free. It completed Write and Verify successfully. Now, this isn't a guarantee yet. I had one of the now bad Verbatim BD-R from my last stack of blue and white branded discs that completed Write and Verify, but the next 3 failed to either complete Write or completed Write but failed Verify. So, I need to do some more burns, which is convenient, as I need to do a near 20 disc BD-R backup right now. And I still need a week to make sure the discs are still readable. My first stack of bad branded blue and white Verbatim BD-R completed Write and Verify but were partially unreadable after less than a week. So, I need to wait a week and perform a manual Verify on all of those 20 BD-R's I mentioned that need burning in the previous paragraph.

If you've tried both Verbatim and another brand of DVD-R, then the issue is either one with your burner or some obscure Windows error. First off, try changing the I/O Interface in ImgBurn. Tools --> Settings --> I/O --> Page 1 --> Interface. Try changing to a different interface. It shouldn't be necessary, but I would recommend closing and reopening ImgBurn between changing I/O Interfaces. See if any of those different Interfaces help. Barring that not working, I'd try getting a new DVD burner, preferably a different make, model, and manufacturer.

I've never bought any BD-R DL media so I couldn't say anything about any other manufacturer's quality. You might as well try using ISO's and attempt slower speed burns. You've got no other BD-R DL discs to try and you know the ones you've currently got probably will result is problems, too, which means they won't be useful normally. So, you might as well experiment as opposed to just tossing them.