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I am guessing nothing happens if you select No. If you select Yes, the test is performed but data may actually be written to the disc instead of a virtual write. I'd say the Test mode determines if your drive can handle the media type inserted. It might crap out on things like smudges or damaged discs. I've never used the Test mode, so I couldn't say anything from experience.

Ah, I see. You're writing your own script. So, you'd want to know how to "manually" determine this.

Also, why not just load the ISO in ImgBurn? It should surely tell you if the ISO won't fit the DVD+R you have inserted into your drive. It should either deny it or ask if you want to overburn it, which would tell you it won't fit on the DVD+R at its current size without overburn. So, it's, at least, slightly larger than the DVD+R size.

Also, wouldn't IFOEdit tell you the exact time the layer break occurs?

No, you're probably not. You're probably using the Life Series if they said Verbatim on them. I told you to use the DataLife Plus series, not the Life Series which you will find in stores. Life Series is CMC. Even Verbatim farms out to crap CMC.

Yes, if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say your most likely cause is you're using CMC Magnetics media. CMC makes the worst media out there. It's cheap and plentiful for a reason. It causes probably more than half of the problems we see on this board. Try Verbatim DataLife Plus media. NOT Life Media you find in stores. DataLife Plus is only found online. As far as double layer DVD media goes, Verbatim is, pretty much, the gold standard. And it's really the only reliable blanks for that purpose, although I've had good results with TDK's discs.

Generally, my experience with that error is either cheap discs or good discs that your drive doesn't like.

My experience with ASUS has been iffy. The first ASUS I had was an external model which passed all tests I threw at it, but now that I have to use it as my primary drive, it sometimes only writes at 4x to 8x rated DVD+R DL. Given my success with this ASUS, I tried your ASUS twice and it failed miserably. It destroys Ritek 8x DVD+RW and Verbatim BD-RE DL. I thought maybe I got a bad unit initially so I tried another and got the same results. With those catastrophic failures, I simply returned that ASUS and wrote it off as trash. I still prefer my Pioneer BDR-2209 over anything else. Once I can find a decent enough USB enclosure that doesn't drop communication like the last one I got. Since Dell removed the half height bays from their PC's, forcing you to choose junk slim models. Which I won't do. I got one in my new Dell and it's already revealed what I've learned from users on this forum about slim drives. It's always possible you got a bad batch of discs if you've used them before with no problem. However, that's generally unlikely. What is more likely is that Quantum changed the manufacturing process, if they did that, so they're not the same kind of discs they used to produce. Without failures on discs I know I are good, the Verbatim VERBAT-IM discs, I couldn't say if it's the discs you're using or not.

Did you get failed burns on the LG, too? I couldn't quite tell if you had said that or not. You've used 2 different types of discs, the Quantum and Ritek. Ritek is a known problem maker. I've never had Quantum kind so I can't say. Were you getting success with Quantums before? If this is your first time using Quantum, maybe they aren't quality blanks after all. Or your drive doesn't like them. Now, I can tell you from trying 2 different units of the BW-16D1HT, that ASUS drive is trash. It destroys rewritable media so I can't see that it's any good at writing, well, anything. Which is why I asked if you were also getting failures on the LG, too. If you were getting failures on both drives, the only thing I would try next is trying a known quality BD-R like Verbatim's VERBAT-IM kind. If you get failures on those, then you know it's not down to the drives as you get failures on both drives and on 3 different kinds of media. So, the issue must be something else. Either a hardware problem or a Windows configuration error of some kind.

You can get the previous failed log from Help --> ImgBurn Logs. You can then copy and paste the appropriate section of the log featuring the last failed burn.

After checking to see if your AV/firewall/security software isn't preventing it from running (Although why it would suddenly stop allowing it would be down to an update in the AV definitions.) I'd simply try uninstalling and reinstalling ImgBurn. If you can't get it to run, what have you got to lose at this point by doing that?

If I were ever to have to get more BD-RE SL, I'd probably see if I could get more of the Panasonic kind I got like 5 years ago. The DID indicated they were Panasonic brand, which is generally good. At least, they made good DVD-R back in like 2002 when I first started recording DVD's for converting my VHS collection with their standalone DVD recorder. Back when DVD-R was $12 a pop!

Last time I ordered Verbatim BD-RE SL, it was a ten pack from Amazon.com and they were the CMC red and silver ones. So, I put Verbatim BD-RE SL on my list. I recently ordered a Verbatim BD-RE DL from Amazon.com and they were still the good VERBAT-IM kind with the blue and white labels like Verbatim's BD-R. You can only order singles, though. That order was placed about 2 or 3 weeks ago, so maybe it was just leftover stock.

I've updated the firmware to the older 1.03 from 2014 (it turns out there are two 1.03 updates on the LG website - the newer one you've mention above from 2018 (N1.03), and an older one from 2014 (1.03-A0) which I didn't notice before), and it didn't solve the problem. You wrote above that LG drives aren't good readers, so what drives ARE recommended as good readers? I'm considering creating images of a lot of my old CDs, but there's no point in such a project if my drive isn't a good reader (I'm already scared that a lot of those old CDs will anyway be problematic reading-wise, so a good reader is crucial). Side-note - UltraHD Blu-Ray is a new format from 2015, which is not compatible with older Blu-Ray drives, so I don't think it's possible for my drive to read it at all. The closest model that can read these discs is WH16NS40, but my drive is WH14NS40. Yeah, I was not aware of the N1.03 firmware. I don't know what that does. The 1.03 I knew of was from December 2017. This N1.03 on LG's web site is dated February 28th, 2018. Funny thing is, that N1.03 firmware is not listed on the firmwarehq page that ImgBurn checks for firmware updates. So, there may, in fact, be 3 1.03 firmwares, if there's one from 2014, which I only recall the 1.02 from 2014. I think the one you're thinking of from 2014 is 1.02, which is the date for 1.02 on firmwarehq. Firmwarehq then lists a 1.03 from December 2017. And LG's web site for the drive lists an N1.03 firmware from 2018-02-28.

The LG I had such iffy performance on Verbatim BD-RE DL's was the WH16NS40. I believe the LG I had such iffy read results was the WH14NS40. I believe the BD-RE DL I have are the DID you mentioned. They work fine in my Pioneer BDR-2209 and my ASUS USB. (NOT the most current ASUS model which destroys rewritable media.) Thankfully, Verbatim didn't outsource these to CMC like they did their BD-RE SL. My guess: CMC doesn't make BD DL media. Otherwise, I'm sure Verbatim would outsource them to CMC, too. Since there's apparently no DataLife Plus format of BD from Verbatim, just one brand they put their name on, there's no real way to know if you're getting quality until you buy them and check the DID yourself. Which is why I generally put reviews on Amazon.com listing the DID of products so people know what they're getting.

Granted, I haven't put LG's latest Ultra-HD BD model through all of its paces. I haven't tested it as a reader except for automatic Verifies yet and I haven't tested its BD-RE DL writing capabilities. The drive that LG released before their Ultra-HD BD was terrible at writing BD-RE DL's, both in ImgBurn and as giant floppies. Someone else even discovered that when they wrote images with other software, they didn't fail Verify. I tried that myself and while I initially had success with on the fly burning, it wasn't consistent enough to recommend the drive for that purpose. The LG I had terrible reads on was one from like 5 years ago, so it may have improved on that front. On that LG, I was getting failures to read discs to images that my Pioneer would read fine.

The only drives I recommend for reading and writing are Pioneer BDR-2209. LG's also have had problems with some writing, such as the most current, pre-Ultra HD model from LG. It doesn't properly write BD-RE DL media from Verbatim. Writes are 9 times out of 10 bad on the 2nd layer. Even when the discs are formatted as giant floppies. I'm no expert, but as far as I am aware of, UltraHD discs are just triple and quad layer discs. They have to have larger capacities because the BD files are larger because the video quality is higher. As long as a drive supports TL/QL media, it should support UltraHD discs, as long as the software player supports playback of UltraHD media.

You could have told whether they were DataLifePlus or Life Series by looking on the packaging label. No need to insert a disc.

Without trying other types of DVD+R DL, it's hard to say. You'd have to try some other brand and see if it can recognize those. If it can recognize one kind and not the other, the drive does not like that particular brand of disc. Are these Verbatim DVD+R DL Life Series or DataLife Plus series? Life Series are CMC junk, so I can understand those not being recognized. Plus, you can't rule out, it being a used a drive, that it isn't simply a drive that has reached the end of its life.

I never had any luck with cleaning CD's that had brushes on the bottom fixing writing issues. Since your other option is to replace the drive, you could always, also, try getting a can of compressed air and blowing into the drive to clean it out. Since you're replacing the drive anyway, if you blow it into oblivion, what have you lost?

In fact, it generally happens to me all the time. Also, single layer DVD's burning fine but double layer DVD's failing to burn is also common. So, yeah, CD's still burning fine but DVD's not is not an unusual thing.

You could spend the rest of your life trying to explain inexplicable computer errors and get nowhere. Let me tell you a story from almost 25 years ago. I was called in by the guy who sold me my first x86 PC. He knew I was more knowledgeable than he was and asked for my advice on a computer he had brought in that wouldn't boot. He couldn't determine anything so called me in. I took a precursory look and found the problem, but, as I told him, it was impossible. Yet, there it was, staring us in the face. The computer wouldn't start because, somehow, the system thought 115% of the available hard drive partition space was in use! In FDISK, 115% of the available HDD partition space was listed as being used by C:. As I said, impossible, but there it was. How that could even happen, I couldn't have even begun to explain, but that was obviously the cause. The solution was simple, but radical: delete the C: partition, recreate it with the proper amount of space, and reinstall MS-DOS and Windows. Luckily, the guy who brought in the PC said there was nothing on the hard drive he could do without so we had permission to nuke the HD if necessary, which it was. Doing what I said fixed the problem. However, as I said, to this day, I cannot explain HOW it happened.

If that's in a Nero log, you'll have to ask Nero that. In the ImgBurn log you posted earlier, there doesn't appear to be anything about being unable to close, so it's beyond the scope of this forum. But, I will say this, Nero does some unconventional things when it comes to burns. For instance, with unformatted DVD rewritable media, it doesn't properly fully format them.

Happens to us all. I was converting an audio tape and there was no sound. So, I thought the tape was blank for some reason. After 28 minutes of converting, I stopped it and checked the MP3 only to find there was audio. What had happened was, I had connected the earphone jack to a specially designed setup to convert earphone jacks to VCR input. And I had muted the TV the entire time, resulting in no audio, of course.

No screen shot was apparently attached, but I don't think I need one at this point. Trying creating a new image in Build mode in ImgBurn, importing the BDMV folder and the CERTIFICATE folder if it exists. Basically, drag and drop all folders your encoder created. Create this image and burn it to a BD-RE for testing. See if it plays alright when ImgBurn makes the image. Check you get audio in the movie, too. If it still doesn't play right or there's no audio, the fault is most likely in the encoder. You could also try mounting the image ImgBurn creates and see if it plays in a software player. If it plays in a software player as a mounted virtual drive but doesn't when you play the disc from your BD drive, your drive is probably at fault. You'll know the image is good and the authoring software isn't the culprit. So, the only remaining suspect is the drive.