dbminter

Yeah, you really can't trust the reliability of slim models. And with a lot of modern towers sans half height bays, you need to buy internal half height drives and put them in USB enclosures to get any kind of quality results.

Is this GCC-4244N USB drive the slim model LG, slim model HP, or the half height IBM one? If it's one of the slim models, that might explain it. Slim models are really bad at, well, everything. Plus, LG drives, in my experience, are not the best readers to begin with.

Some PS1 games cannot be read by ImgBurn and some combinations of drives. When I encounter one such disc, I use Alcohol 120% Free to read those to image files. It always worked for PS1 games that wouldn't for me in ImgBurn. If LUK can't suss this out, it's something you may want to try. Granted, I've never encountered errors like the ones you posted before in such instances.

I had a Blu-Ray where I had to use MKV in order to enable selectable subtitles. I posted on the Handbrake forum why I couldn't disable the burned in the subtitles. From the log, it had something to do, I think, with a particular audio file type in the Blu-Ray. I was using MP4, but under this particular instance, MP4 would only always create burned in subtitles. Once the forum told me to try MKV instead, it worked.

MKV is only really useful in one instance I've encountered. Some Blu-Ray contents when converted to containers have an audio file type (I think it's the audio that's problematic.) that requires you to use MKV if you're going to save the subtitles to the container. Otherwise, if you use MP4 for them, the subtitles must be and can ONLY be hardcoded, on the screen all the time, burned in subtitles. I don't know about the CMC era of Taiyo Yuden, but back when TY was in business making its own media, there were 2 quality blank media manufacturers: Mitsubishi (MCC) and Taiyo Yuden. I never used TY for DVD, but they were constantly being recommended by other ImgBurn beta testers, etc. I did, though, use TY for CD-R and they were high quality blanks for that. In fact, for a long time, I used primarily TY for CD-R's. Now, I use Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO CD-R's.

I prefer MP4 over MKV myself. The Playstation 3 plays MP4 but I don't think it plays MKV. Plus, MKV's can take longer to load in video editing software because it has to compile some kind of video thumbnail list from the file. AVIDeMux has to generate TWO such lists from each MKV file. Sorry, never heard of Trisonic before you mentioned it earlier, so I can't say. It does seem unusual for a possibly no name company to farm out to Mitsubishi over CMC. Most of what I've found in dollar stores like Dollar Tree and places like Big Lots were all CMC. Still, you never can tell. I purchased a $1 Blu-Ray of a quality release from Dollar Tree. The 1987 Robocop director's cut. Normally over $8 on Amazon.com, just a buck. And it played all video just fine. So, someone like Trisonic using MCC isn't out of the question. If you can find MCC for cheap, go for it. Of course, there's always the risk that they're not true Mitsubishi media. Manufacturers in the past have been known to fake MID's on discs to make them appear to be better quality than they actually are. Besides, you can get branded Verbatim DataLife Plus DVD-R for like less than $15 for 50 of them, so it's not like the real deal quality stuff is very expensive. Recordable DVD prices have drastically dropped in recent years. Only DL media is really more expensive nowadays. I just ordered 50 Verbatim real deal branded DVD-R off of Amazon.com on the 13th for like between $13 and $14. With free shipping, the price is even cheaper.

Sorry, I don't remember the folder. I deleted it from my HDD after renaming it without the trailing period to make a new disc from. I don't have the original disc anymore, and if I did, sorry, it's private. Plus, it wasn't small. It took up nearly an entire DVD-R. Plus, it may have been a fluke. A disc I encountered a few more down from that one was behaving oddly. It showed up as 6 GB in Read mode, but none of the contents were accessible. All 3 folders in the root were listed as 0 bytes, with no folder icons, and when selected for opening, Windows 10 wanted to assign a default application to open them with. Reading that disc to an image file and mounting the image recovered the contents fine, so I just made a new disc, but it was weird to begin with.

DVD+R compatibility really only matters if you're going to burn DVD Video contents to them. Older stand alone DVD players have some read issues with DVD+R. If you're not worried about putting one such disc in an older DVD player, then go with DVD+R. DVD+R is slightly larger (A few MB.) than DVD-R. So, sometimes you may create an image that fits on a DVD+R but won't fit on a DVD-R. I actually encountered that just earlier this morning. If you're primarily going to just burn non DVD Video data contents, go with DVD+R. Most modern DVD players shouldn't have trouble playing a DVD+R. All modern PC DVD drives should support reading DVD+R. If you have a choice between using a CMC DVD+R or an MCC, I would always recommend the MCC. I had a few CMC DVD+R because I needed a 10 pack to test LightScribe writing with, back when they made drives that supported it. So, I had about 9 discs left over to use up, since I didn't want to use CMC discs for my own contents. So, I used them as temp burners for some DVD Video contents my mother wanted to see. Turned out it was a waste of time as her DVD player wouldn't even recognize playable discs had been inserted. That's how much CMC media is. Sony has been farming out the DVD-R it used to make to Ritek for over a decade. It's decent enough 2nd tier media I've used before with no problem. I have never encountered a package of DVD's with many discs in them that had different MID's on different discs. Generally, when such things happen, it's from shady sellers who have opened various packages and mixed and matched discs into a new selling package to maximize profits. For instance, put a quality name on the outside of the package, but use cheaper media on the inside to make more money and make the buyer think they're getting quality product.

Actually, I think I may have asked about this one other time before in the past. So, it may be something that can be tested to see if it's repeatable.

I added a folder to a Build project and noticed that when the image was burned, the folder had a random string of characters at the end of its name. I did some examination and I noticed I had accidentally named the folder on the source drive with a trailing period at the end of its file name since the folder was named for an acronym. Could this trailing period have caused ImgBurn to add random characters to the end of the folder name? That it was ImgBurn's way of correcting "bad" folder/file names? Thanks!

But, it is a random Windows problem. It was working fine one day and then stopped working right that was fixed by restoring Windows to a previous point where it was working fine and apparently resumed working fine again. That's what I define as a random Windows problem. And Windows is prone to doing just such things. It will randomly forget user settings or how to perform an operation it had done just fine before. Or randomly delete important program files that are needed for a program's operation so that it won't work anymore, etc.

Sudden, inexplicable Windows errors popping up out of the clear blue is nothing new. You've learned the best lesson in why you should have disc images of your Windows partition. I take one every day and keep a week's retention of daily backups. I also take a weekly backup and keep a month's retention of those. I also take a monthly image and retain a year's worth of those. And, lastly, I do a yearly image and retain those for a year. Since you're most unlikely to discover a sudden error shortly after it pops up, you never know how far back you'll need to restore from to fix it.

I'm not sure, but I think the prefer properly formatted discs option just means that a disc is properly formatted before a write is performed. For instance, Nero used to, don't about now, not properly format discs when it wrote to them. So, when ImgBurn went to reuse them, it had to properly format the discs even though Nero wrote contents to them that would play in a DVD player. I know that from experience. Second, ImgBurn won't write to a rewritable disc unless it has been properly formatted first. So, if it's a virgin disc or a disc that was not fully properly formatted before, ImgBurn will do that to make sure you get a proper write. Third, as far as I know, a Full Erase doesn't actually write anything to a disc. e.g. no zeroes or ones are written to the disc writable space. The sectors are formatted like they are when a disc is first written to. I don't know that for sure but I can't see why a Full Erase would write ones/zeroes to each sector when a full format of each sector will erase the contents.

There was another post about a similar issue on this board recently. You may want to try and do a search for specific terms to see if you can find it. I don't think you can search for DTS or 5.1 because I think you need more than 3 characters to do a search on. At least, you used to on the old version of the board. Doing a searching for DTS 5.1 as a whole term might find it. I'm only going by memory, but near as I can recall, I don't think it was possible to use DTS 5.1 audio as a source file for creating audio CD's. What you could do is try converting the file to another audio output type. Of course, you'll probably lose some of the quality you're hoping to maintain with DTS 5.1.

I don't understand; what exactly is the problem? Your Topic says boot selection failed, but the body of your post just says there's an extra file system on the source CD that is not present on your copy. Did you receive some kind of error message? Does the CD not boot? If you want an exact copy of the CD, just use Read mode.

Yes, as a matter of habit, I always only queue up one task at a time. And, yes, PM did queue up operations. I think every partition management software I've ever used did that. If the software has a bootable disc option, I always use that to boot out of Windows to perform partition operations. Yeah, for whatever reason, when tasks are queued, there's a greater likelihood one task won't work for whatever reason. Plus, if one task doesn't complete, the rest of the queue is abandoned and you lose all the work you put into them. Hence, I learned a long time ago to just queue up 1 task at a time.

Well, you're booting into DOS. You're trying to run things from DOS, which requires drivers to access the contents from a DOS prompt. Plus, when you're booting from the CD, you're booting from a special boot sector type setup on the CD. Not the actual "CD" itself. Floppy drives were around far longer before the various versions of DOS than CD drives were available afterwards. So, they're native, versus the CD.

Yeah, it's been a long time since I did it, but there's something you need to load in CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT that you need to access CD drives from DOS. Or maybe there was something for both? A .SYS file in CONFIG.SYS and an .EXE in AUTOEXEC.BAT, I'm thinking?

Off topic, I know, but you actually had problems with Partition Magic? It was one of the few utilities that did what it did that I found that actually worked. I miss it tremendously, along with PowerQuest's Drive Image. DI was also the first utility of its kind I ever used that did what it did and did it well.

You said you're trying to create an ISO from files from a bootable flash drive with ImgBurn? ImgBurn doesn't support bootable flash drives for boot images as far as I know. So, even if you extracted the boot image from a bootable flash drive, copied over the contents from the flash drive, and created an ISO, I don't think it would work. LUK might know some bootable settings to change to do this, but as far as I know, this won't work.

I honestly can't say what it would be that would do that, though. As I said, there's no difference playing back a DVD Video that's on a recordable disc versus a pressed DVD. It sounds to me like whatever you used to make this wedding video for putting on DVD put that playback in on its own. I'd try playing this DVD on a stand alone player beyond a PC and see if you get the same behavior. If you do, then, it's in the video itself. Which kind of makes more sense since you say pressed DVD's don't do this. Oh, a screen shot (Such as using Snipping Tool/Snip & Sketch on Windows 10.) of this menu you get when the DVD starts playing may help.

I am going to guess that in your master log list, this is the log LUK would be looking for. //****************************************\\ ; ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 - Log ; Friday, 04 January 2019, 22:35:50 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 22:24:17 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 22:24:17 Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7601 : Service Pack 1) I 22:24:17 Total Physical Memory: 4,184,376 KiB - Available: 2,746,396 KiB I 22:24:17 Initialising SPTI... I 22:24:17 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 22:24:18 -> Drive 1 - Info: TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653N hb02 (D:) (ATA) I 22:24:18 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM! I 22:25:53 Operation Started! I 22:25:53 Building Image Tree... I 22:26:00 Corrected file system selection for DVD Video disc. I 22:26:06 Checking Directory Depth... I 22:26:06 Calculating Totals... I 22:26:06 Preparing Image... I 22:26:07 Checking Path Length... I 22:26:07 Contents: 7 Files, 2 Folders I 22:26:07 Content Type: DVD Video I 22:26:07 Data Type: MODE1/2048 I 22:26:07 File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 22:26:07 Volume Label: Desktop I 22:26:07 IFO/BUP 32K Padding: Enabled I 22:26:07 Region Code: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 I 22:26:07 TV System: PAL I 22:26:07 Size: 1,539,684,352 bytes I 22:26:07 Sectors: 751,799 I 22:26:07 Image Size: 1,540,259,840 bytes I 22:26:07 Image Sectors: 752,080 I 22:26:09 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:15 I 22:26:09 Operation Started! I 22:26:09 Source File: -==/\/[BUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 22:26:09 Source File Sectors: 752,080 (MODE1/2048) I 22:26:09 Source File Size: 1,540,259,840 bytes I 22:26:09 Source File Volume Identifier: Desktop I 22:26:09 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 4E24B33A000B79CC I 22:26:09 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.8.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! I 22:26:09 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 22:26:09 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 22:26:09 Destination Device: [1:0:0] TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653N hb02 (D:) (ATA) I 22:26:09 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: MCC 03RG20) I 22:26:09 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x I 22:26:09 Destination Media Sectors: 2,297,888 I 22:26:09 Write Mode: DVD I 22:26:09 Write Type: DAO I 22:26:09 Write Speed: 16x I 22:26:09 Link Size: Auto I 22:26:09 Lock Volume: Yes I 22:26:09 Test Mode: No I 22:26:09 OPC: No I 22:26:09 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 22:26:09 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 22,160 KB/s (16x) I 22:26:10 Filling Buffer... (80 MiB) I 22:26:11 Writing LeadIn... I 22:26:42 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 752079) I 22:26:42 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 752079) I 22:28:52 Synchronising Cache... I 22:29:03 Exporting Graph Data... I 22:29:03 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Andy\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\TSSTcorp_CDDVDW_TS-H653N_hb02_04-JANUARY-2019_22-26_MCC_03RG20_16x.ibg I 22:29:03 Export Successfully Completed! I 22:29:03 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:02:54 I 22:29:03 Average Write Rate: 11,660 KiB/s (8.6x) - Maximum Write Rate: 14,443 KiB/s (10.7x) I 22:29:03 Cycling Tray before Verify... W 22:29:09 Waiting for device to become ready... I 22:29:21 Device Ready! I 22:29:22 Operation Started! I 22:29:22 Source Device: [1:0:0] TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653N hb02 (D:) (ATA) I 22:29:22 Source Media Type: DVD-R (Book Type: DVD-R) (Disc ID: MCC 03RG20) I 22:29:22 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x I 22:29:22 Source Media Supported Write Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x I 22:29:22 Source Media Sectors: 752,080 (Track Path: PTP) I 22:29:22 Source Media Size: 1,540,259,840 bytes I 22:29:22 Image File: -==/\/[BUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 22:29:22 Image File Sectors: 752,080 (MODE1/2048) I 22:29:22 Image File Size: 1,540,259,840 bytes I 22:29:22 Image File Volume Identifier: Desktop I 22:29:22 Image File Volume Set Identifier: 4E24B33A000B79CC I 22:29:22 Image File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.8.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! I 22:29:22 Image File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 22:29:22 Image File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 22:29:22 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / MAX I 22:29:23 Read Speed - Effective: 6.4x - 16x I 22:29:23 Verifying Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 752079) I 22:29:23 Verifying Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 752079) I 22:32:54 Exporting Graph Data... I 22:32:54 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Andy\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\TSSTcorp_CDDVDW_TS-H653N_hb02_04-JANUARY-2019_22-26_MCC_03RG20_16x.ibg I 22:32:54 Export Successfully Completed! I 22:32:54 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:03:25 I 22:32:54 Average Verify Rate: 7,373 KiB/s (5.5x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 14,625 KiB/s (10.8x) I 22:35:50 Close Request Acknowledged I 22:35:50 Closing Down... I 22:35:50 Shutting down SPTI... I 22:35:50 ImgBurn closed! ; Was this DVD that doing this behavior burned yesterday, Friday the 4th? In terms of playback, there's nothing different in a DVD Video that is playing from a recorded DVD disc versus a pressed disc. My guess is whatever is doing this is system based. It's something your PC is doing for whatever reason. If you were to play this on a stand alone DVD player, it would just start automatically playing, if it plays at all on a stand alone DVD player, like a Playstation. Also, what are you recording on this DVD? Some DVD you made yourself? If so, it may be down to how the software used to create the VIDEO_TS authored the DVD.

Yeah, it would seem more likely that a package of discs would have discs with different DID's than 1 disc have multiple DID's depending on what program read it.

Yeah, most of the problems we see on this board are caused by using cheap media, especially CMC discs. And most of those problems tend to go away when people switch over to Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO media. Before I ever learned of anything called CMC, I wasted $1,500 trying to troubleshoot why discs I had used for half a year started failing half the time. Then, I learned of DID's and CMC and checked the failed burns. Sure enough, Optodisc had switched from their quality brand to CMC junk. So, Optodisc went on my list and I've never looked back to them since. You only get 1 chance to impress.

Yeah, I was just going to say the same thing. It really can't happen that the DID would change depending on what program you're using. But, if it happens, it happens. I just can't imagine how it can happen. Sony used to make their own DVD-R and they were high quality about 10 years ago. Then, they switched to Ritek. They were still pretty good, but it was typical Sony quality reduction.