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The first step in troubleshooting would be to dump the Memorex CMC discs. There is really only one quality DVD+R DL out there and that's the Verbatim DataLife Plus MKM brand. Although I had good results with TDK's brand. However, I would first start with the quality media and work from there. It could be some other problem, but since CMC media is a common troublemaker, the first step in troubleshooting this would be to try quality media first.

Is your LG BD burner the WH16NS40? If it is, then that one is bad at writing DL BD discs. That's why I get the WH16NS60. It writes to them fine as far as my tests revealed.

Ah, IC. Hm, that is unusual. At best, the flash drive should be A: or B:. A: being the bootable image and B: being the flash drive. Or A: being the flash drive. I can't think of a situation where that would occur or how to fix it.

I've gotten flash drives to boot with floppy boot images and made them larger than 1.44 MB. I used something called WinImage, I think, to edit an image I made of a bootable floppy. Then, I edited that .IMG to add other things to it. Then, I forget what I used, but I used some other application to make this edited IMG into a bootable USB flash drive. I needed a bootable flash drive to run an ancient DOS word processor called Q&A. The drive had to contain all of my Q&A files and I had one database that was larger than 1.44 MB. I wish I could better remember what I used and how I did it because that might make what you want work. Sorry.

What do you mean floppies don't support directories? They'd be relatively useless if they didn't. As LUK said, do you have the CD driver you need to add to CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT? (I forget what the file name is and whether you have to put it CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT.) Without that on the bootable floppy, CD drives can't be accessed in DOS.

My guess is you'll probably have to forget about it. I don't know if Windows 95 even supports booting from USB, let alone installing from it. Was USB even supported in Windows 95? I thought USB didn't come out until 1999, by which time Windows ME had come out. And that would be the earliest support for USB, I'd think. And back in the early days of USB, booting from such devices wasn't in PC BIOS.

Looks like the recent Windows 10 1903 KB update addressed the issue of Notifications not clearing themselves automatically like they used to. Actually, it only fixed that for inserted new media.

Looks like that failed DVD+R was just a fluke. All of my other DVD+R burned fine since that failed first attempt.

Audio CD's are very unique beasts. Because they came first and before the creation of recordable CD's that could store data, Audio CD's aren't "data" CD's. They're specifically designed so they can be read on the external CD player hardware. For that reason, Audio CD images apparently can't be written to DVD or BD recordable discs. .CUE files are the same way. They can only be written to CD-R/RW.

I have to admit, I saw no appreciable difference in enabling hardware acceleration in ConvertXToDVD. I leave it enabled, but, as I said, I don't see any real benefit to it.

There's one reason why I'd consider buying ConvertXToVideo: the ability to convert ALL BD Video title sets to DVD VIDEO_TS. I could then import that VIDEO_TS into ConvertXToDVD to make a DVD like I like it. And ConvertXToDVD could always be updated to import ALL BD Video titles from a disc instead of just the main movie, like it does with DVD Video.

If you're sure they're music CD's and not DVD's, then something is up. It sounds like you created an image file from this music CD. While in Write mode with this image loaded, in the pane of image file info on the left hand side, what is the Size field in bytes? Also, are you putting in recordable DVD's into your burner instead of recordable CD's? If they're music CD's, you'll need CD-R or CD-RW to burn the image to. If you put in a recordable DVD and you're trying to burn an Audio CD image to it, ImgBurn might be detecting you're trying to write to the wrong media format. In this case, DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW/DVD-RAM.

dr_ml, I'm curious. What did VSO eventually tell you?

Well, after testing the new VanTec enclosure I tried to see if it was just my last model, it isn't! It took 6 days, but the fundamental flaws in this device showed themselves again. It randomly dropped communication with the device! Thankfully, it did it during a Verify, so I didn't lose a disc. So, it just goes to prove I'm generally right! I figured it was a fundamental flaw in this piece of junk, and it is. Well, it goes back to Amazon.com! Actually, it shows what I know! It proved to me I should do my due duty before reaching a conclusion. I tried Verifying again and it always dropped communication at roughly the same place. So, I put the disc in my internal SATA LG and tried to Verify it that way. At roughly the same place (53% on the VanTec versus 51% on the SATA.) it failed to Verify due to an unreadable sector. Now, when there are failures of write or Verifies on the VanTec, it always did drop communication with the device. A DIFFERENT fundamental flaw. That's why I decided to test it in another drive. So, it seems I had a bad disc or a bad burn. I'll see if this happens again. However, it could mean the refurbished LG is bad, too, as I don't know if I've written single layer DVD+R in it yet. I know I have successfully made BD-R, DVD+RW, and DVD+R DL in it. Could have just been a bad blank. The 2nd attempt to burn it completed fully and successfully in the VanTec. However, this could be indicative of a bad refurbished drive. That it randomly fails to burn properly DVD+R. Since I don't know if I successfully burned DVD+R before, I can't rule out either a bad blank or a bad drive.

As far as I know, you still needed decrypting software for UHD. What it is is some drives are so called UHD friendly, meaning they can allow decrypting of UHD BD discs. But, as time goes on and Hollywood applies pressure the manufacturers of these drives plug these holes. I had read about the online petition to basically hire all new writers and redo the last season of GOT because it was so bad.

Ah, an explanation of the Neil reference: https://spittingimage.fandom.com/wiki/Tomorrow_Belongs_To_Me I get it now that it's blatantly explained to a foreigner.

Well, that was unexpected. I got my new enclosure and put the refurbished WH16NS60 in it for testing both. I didn't notice it at first, but the model LG sent me has a firmware that ISN'T available for download! The firmware revision on the refurbished model is 1.02; the newest you can get from LG's web site is 1.01 from December 2017. I'm not entirely sure I like this turn of events. Are they using me as an unpaid, unwitting beta tester? What was changed? Is this firmware going to make things worse? 1.01 was working fine as far as I could tell. Most likely, this firmware update is an innocuous one designed simply to plug some hole that allows copying of UHD BD's. The last firmware update I installed for the WH16NS40 did that and only that as far as I could tell.

Ah, VSO intrigue! Sounds interesting. I did notice they put out a new beta for VSO Downloader. So, they are doing something, but it was unknown to me if they were ever going to work on ConvertXToDVD/Video ever again.

I refer to all slim models. If there are any good slim model drives, it's news to me based on what I read on these forums.

You're going to need some kind of software where you can convert the audio input type and save a new kind of video file. Probably something like AVIDeMux would do the job. Just be sure not to use Copy under Audio but use a different audio output type. Otherwise, you'll just have the same problem.

That's probably why it works. Unlike hard mods, soft mods can be updated to include more functions. Well, some hard mod chips could get firmware updates later on in development life of the PS2.

It's not the PS2 system that matters. It was the modification method used to play discs. Back in 2002, when I last checked, mod chips didn't support DL copies. But, of course, that was 17 years ago, so things can have advanced since then, naturally.

Came across this on YouTube Being American, I only ever saw 1 Spitting Image special that was made especially for the United States market around 1985, but I absolutely loved it. Even taped it on Betamax. Plus the same puppeteers did their work on that Genesis video that I got to see here in the States. I still miss Spitting Image, even though I only ever saw those little bits. The above video is satire that escapes a lot of me, of course, not being British or aware of 1987 British politics, but I do believe that's Margaret Thatcher at the end. Which would make perfect sense to end with her in a song quoting Tomorrow Belongs To Me. I get the feeling I'm missing a fantastic joke about "Still think you can control them, Neil?" I know that's referencing a Michael York line from the Cabaret movie that is inserted into the song number. But, I think it's making fun of something else that would go over my head.

So, that was the problem. Whoever made those CD's apparently changed how they used to be made. From Mode 1 to Mode 2 because what you describe is a data CD, not an audio CD.

If the Booktype wasn't successfully set, there would probably be a listing in the Log window that it tried but failed to do so. Usually some kind of warning like "Invalid operation code." At least, that's what it says on my LG WH16NS60 when it tries to set the Booktype, but fails. Since that drive apparently doesn't support setting Booktype. Most PS2 games aren't double layer DVD's. Very few were actually released. And, as far as I knew, very few mod chips supported DVD+R DL copies.