dbminter

I wasn't sure if that still worked. Under Firefox, the Print function has no listed associated keyboard shortcut under the hamburger icon. It just says Print. I have a button to Print on my toolbar so I just use that.

I'm guessing you mean one of the guides in the Guides section of this forum? You'd use your web browser's Print function, wherever it's hidden away. It varies depending on browser and user browser configuration. Generally nowadays, Print is usually found under some kind of "hamburger" icon in the upper right of the browser window.

You can't mount multiple image files to the same virtual drive. What you'll have to do since you're limited to one virtual drive on your system with Daemon Tools is to mount each image one at a time and copy each drive's contents from each image file one after the other into 6 separate temporary folders. Alternatively, you could somehow convert the MDF files to ISO and install Virtual CloneDrive. It's free software and lets you create multiple virtual drives. It also mounts ISO files. That might work, but the conversion from MDF to ISO might not work right. I don't know. Another idea that might work. Virtual CloneDrive lets you mount what are called .DVD files. ImgBurn has a Tool option to Create DVD file. I don't know if .DVD files support .MDF image files or not, but instead of trying to convert from MDF to ISO first, it would be easier, if it works, to create a .DVD file and mount those in 6 separate Virtual CloneDrive drives. I don't know if there's a limit to how many drives you can have beyond the maximum 26 that would be allowed. And that number would be reduced by how many drives you have that show up in Windows/File Explorer.

Verbatim makes a DataLife Plus series of CD's, too, in addition to DVD and BD. I don't know if they use AZO on the CD like they do with DVD. And I don't know of their availability outside of the United States, where I get mine.

Look online for CD's called Verbatim DataLife Plus. They're probably the best out there now that Taiyo Yuden doesn't make media anymore. However, I had difficulty finding them on Amazon.com last time I looked and could only find them on Verbatim's web store. Don't get the Life Series from Verbatim; they're junk.

Let me guess. You put this CD in a stand alone physical CD player that displays track names and it isn't displaying them correctly? If so, that's a common issue seen here. It's generally down to the player not physically being compatible with reading CD Text from a CD-R. Have you tried playing this CD in some PC software player and see if you get CD Text information?

Depends on how you're burning the CD. If you just use Read mode to read in a CD and then Write mode to burn the image of the disc you just read, you can't add track names as far as I know. The only way I know is to Create a CUE file and burn your own CD from MP3/etc. tracks. That way you can add the metadata, either imported from the track files or you can manually add it.

Can't say why you'd end up in an infinite loop installing Alcohol. I haven't installed it like 10 years, so I don't know how well the software still works. And I was using a licensed version, so I've never tried installing the free version to see if it works. Back then, there wasn't a free version. I can't think of anything it might install that you'd need to reboot for, anyway. There's nothing like Daemon Tool's SPTD that hooks into the system, as far as I know.

Try Alcohol 120% Free version. I don't know if it supports mounting MDS or not, but it's worth a try. And I think it's free version will let you mount images, but I've never tried it. In fact, I haven't used Alcohol in like a decade. I know Virtual CloneDrive, which I use, doesn't mount MDS files. You could try creating a new .DVD or .MDS file under ImgBurn's Tools and point the new file to the .MDF file. .DVD, I believe, is supported by Virtual CloneDrive. Although a new .MDS file probably doesn't matter in this case.

Also, is the ISO the same file name, just different extension, as the MDF/MDS files? I wonder if, what happened, is you saved one of your Build jobs, either on purpose or by accident, to the same folder as the 6th CD image file set. I still think the 6th CD image file is corrupt, too. Mounting it as a virtual drive would help prove if it is or not.

I would make sure that 6th CD that isn't installing actually works to begin with. Burn the 6th CD image to a disc and try running Setup from that burned disc. I would think that the 6th CD image you downloaded might be corrupted and can't be used to run the setup from. But, I don't know that for sure. Are you getting that single track image error when trying to burn the 6th disc image? If that's the case, then you can't burn it with ImgBurn probably as it seems multi-track image files aren't supported for burning by ImgBurn. Wait, are you saying there are 2 different disc image files for the 6th CD? An ISO and an MDF? Given the file sizes you mention, they would, to me, not appear to be the same contents. I don't know if converting an MDF to an ISO would result in such a smaller file size. Try burning ISO on its own by loading the ISO in write. If that can't burn, try opening the MDS in Write mode. If that doesn't burn correctly, try opening the MDF and writing it.

Build mode doesn't burn anything to disc. It creates ISO image files that you use the Write mode to burn the ISO files to disc. There is a Write files/folders to disc option that is similar to Build that does burn contents to discs. It uses the same interface as Build mode.

Actually, there may be a simpler way, now that I think about it. Since you don't apparently need the actual install CD's and just the PDF files in the Testi folder, what I would do is this. Burn each MDS/MDF disc image set to a rewritable CD or DVD. Either one at a time and reuse rewritable discs or burn all 6 to 6 discs. Then, from each disc you burn, open the Testi folder and copy all the PDF's to a temporary folder. Add that temporary folder to a Build job and burn to a CD or DVD. This way, you'll have all the PDF files for reading without having to install the Adobe Reader to read them. Plus, you can use your Sumatra PDF reader as you normally would.

The MDS and MDF files you already burned to DVD are only good for burning as image files to disc or loading as virtual drives in a virtual drive program. That's how you'd access the contents on each CD. You could copy them from the DVD to a hard drive or just load them from the DVD, but you'd need 2 burner drives for that second option, one to read and one to write. Did you already burn 6 discs with the MDS/MDF files? If not, you'd need to burn them, preferably to rewritable discs, temporarily so you can copy the contents of each disc, e.g. that long list of files and folders that had the SETUP file in it, from each disc. These 6 individual discs are what you'd need to copy to 6 temporary folders in another temporary folder. And it would be these 6 temporary folders in a temporary folder itself that you would add to a Build job and burn to ISO and then to DVD. You will only ever be asked to erase a disc if it is rewritable. You'll never be asked to erase a CD-R, DVD-/+R, DVD-/+R DL, BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-R TL, or BD-R QL. Build mode is not batched. It will only queue image files to burn in a batch it creates. And, thus, you'd have to create more than 1 before burning one to queue. Unfortunately, I can't make it much clearer than what I've already done because, and I don't mean to sound condescending, but there are certain basics in navigating PC use that just can't be taught in a forum like this.

What you apparently did was simply copy all 6 CD image files to the ISO. While this isn't a total failure, all you can do with that disc is load each CD image file from the DVD in ImgBurn and burn them to CD's. Or mount them in virtual CD drives from the DVD. What you need to do is burn the CD image files to disc or mount them as virtual drives and copy the contents from the CDs, not the CD image files, to 6 temporary folders. You were probably asked for a 2nd DVD because you burned the job twice, putting the burned ISO file into ImgBurn's queue for burning. MDS is just a pointer to another file. So, in your destination folder, the MDS was actually pointing to the ISO file that ImgBurn created. For instance, with your original 6 CD image files, the MDS files point to the MDF file, which is actually the CD image file. MDS just tells ImgBurn how to burn the MDF/ISO.

Yeah, I was wondering if, given the small file size, the resulting Synchronizing cache might take a long time because it has more to pad out. I just wasn't sure.

How long did you wait at the Synchronizing cache? I've seen it take up to 15 minutes sometimes on DL media, but your screen capture shows SL media. In your burn, you're burning a smaller size image file, it seems, so there may be a longer Synchronizing cache wait there. I don't know. Those discs from the first screen capture say they're MKM, so they appear to be the good stuff, although I don't recognize that particular DID string; so it doesn't appear to be cheap media you're using. Try seeing if there's a new firmware update for your drive. In Write mode, right click on the destination drive letter (Your burner's drive letter.) and choose the check for firmware update option, which, I think, is the very last one at the end of the list. Also, post the log of these failures. They help more than screen captures. Under Help, choose ImgBurn Logs.

Yeah, when you change the file association, you don't need to do it for each individual file. You've changed the file association for all files ending in the .PDF extension. Well, it's not really as simple as just copying over all 6 CD's to one Build job. You can choose to copy and not overwrite existing files, but there's no guarantee the installer will work that way when you run it. What you can do is simply copy all 6 CD's contents to their own individual folders, 1, 2, etc. into a Build job. You'd first have to copy over each CD to its own folder, 1, 2, etc. on your hard drive and then add each folder to a Build job. That way, you can insert just the one disc and run an individual installer from each folder. That's probably your best bet. 6 CD's might not fit on a single layer DVD and you may need a DVD+/-R DL or a single layer Blu-Ray disc.

Since these files are apparently PDF, what I would recommend is after they're installed, look for any files with PDF extensions and just copy them over. That way, you shouldn't need anything "installed" from this CD at all. You should also search the install CD itself for any PDF files. That way you can just copy them over instead of having to install anything if the installation works that way. Then, you could use your own PDF reader. Acrobat Reader 3? Wow, how old are these install CD's?

If you want to use your old PDF reader instead of Adobe's, you can try uninstalling Adobe Acrobat Reader in Add/Remove Programs. It should restore the old file association for PDF to your old PDF reader after uninstalling Adobe's. If it doesn't, you should be able to restore its association by reinstalling your old PDF reader. I would think, in theory, you can copy the contents of the install CD to a new folder on the micro-card and then run the SETUP application from the root directory folder that is on the CD that is now in this new folder on the micro-card.

Well, that appears to be a software installation disc. Notice the SETUP application file? This disc wants to install something. You may need to install this disc's contents to access the text readable information. It seems to be in PDF format because there's an Adobe folder which indicates to me there's an installer for Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PDF files with in case you have no PDF reader installed. At this point, without actually executing the SETUP application, I can't say. Although the AVI folder would contain video files. This doesn't seem to be a disc with anything to read stuff from. It seems more of a software application installation disc.

Leave the troubleshooting information in the original post. I'm most likely to forget tech support via private messaging. If you're having trouble with burning an ISO and nothing else is problematic, the first thing to do is recreate the ISO into a new ISO and try that. It's rare but sometimes ISO source files can be the problem.

Yes, I'm not familiar with a Disc ID of MBI, so I'd have to say they're a dodgy brand of discs. Try Verbatim's DataLife Plus series. NOT the Life Series you find in stores. DataLife Series can only be found online.

I, too, have commented in other posts the deviousness of CMC. I do believe they purposefully chose their name because MCC media was the good stuff. And I think MCC is supposed to stand for Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation? Then, for DVD+R DL, Mitsubishi changed the DID to MKM for the Kagaku in the name Mitsubishi Kagaku Media? CMC never predicted the name change and were screwed, stuck with their old name! I'm surprised they didn't change their company name to something like KMM to compensate.

If you've used these discs before without problem and it suddenly starts failing, then the problem is your drive. It probably needs replacing. How long have you been using these discs and this burner? It could just be you got all the good discs in a row and suddenly you're getting all the bad ones. That's the nature of iffy media. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Switching to higher quality media is always the first step I recommend. More than half of the problems we see on this board are caused by dodgy media. Most of these problems tend to go away when you switch to higher quality, genuine, non CMC Verbatim media. It's not the end all, be all solution, of course. But, it will isolate if it's a problem caused by cheap media or not. If it still happens on higher quality media, then the problem is most likely your drive. It probably needs replacing, especially depending on how long you've been using it.