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Ya, i cleaned the Sony and it still doesn't work sooo. i was looking into some of the burners and I'm very confused. I've never had to look for a new burner the Sony was a gift. I looked up the Sony Optiac (?) and saw this one Sony Optiarc Black 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA DVD/CD Rewritable Drive - OEM Is that good or what should i get? My main concern is DL Xbox backup burning. I prefer an external but i guess it's just as easy to put an internal in a case right? Please help my budget is 100-200 at max. Do i need to spend this much? There's alot out there and I'm not quite sure what half of the CDfreaks guys are talking about. Thanks for all the help guys.

Any recommendations of where to buy (cheapest place that's recommended?) or which models you recommend?

Thanks will try the cleaning.... If i buy a new external which should i buy. I know your gonna say some top of the line model, but is there something that works good that's not too expensive? I can sacrifice speed over reliability and money. Also where's a good place to look to buy? Thanks

Okay, I had problems in the past while burning my DL backups but now i get errors all the time. First i was using my laptops slime drive and getting a successful burn 1 out of 3 times ( i would just throw 2 attempts away) because i couldn't get my sony external to work either. Now i cant get either to go through a full burn I'm using verbatim 2.4X singapore DL, and have updated both firmwares. I'll list both logs below first is the slime drive from laptop second is a Sony external DRX-710 Dual burner. Please help I've only finished about 10 DL burns out of about 40 and i can't figure it out anymore. I don't care about slime drive but i really want to get the Sony to work correctly. LOG 1: I 00:55:36 ImgBurn Version 2.4.4.0 started! I 00:55:36 Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 00:55:36 Total Physical Memory: 522,732 KB - Available: 242,992 KB I 00:55:36 Initialising SPTI... I 00:55:36 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 00:55:36 Found 2 DVD

currentlyi'm burning it on my Hp Pavilion internal burner that i don't think suppports DL burns, but it's made it further in the burn than my external...it's about 55% done, i'll let ya know the outcome. The Pioneer discussed earlier, will the DVR-X162Q6PK 20X external Pioneer suffice?

actually no, and no...Image burn gets locked up and i have to end task or disconnect burner.... If it is burner that sucks which one should i buy? Hopefully that's last case scenario though

If it helps here's the most recent log I 09:14:01 ImgBurn Version 2.4.4.0 started! I 09:14:01 Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 09:14:01 Total Physical Memory: 522,732 KB - Available: 186,632 KB I 09:14:01 Initialising SPTI... I 09:14:01 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 09:14:01 Found 2 DVD

After updating firmware, using Sony external DRU-710UL, and Verbatim 2.5X DL +R discs, still having problems. The burn will get about 44-53% percent dont than just stop. The computer doesn't freeze but the program just stops moving forward. Image burn doesn't lock up it just stops and th only option is to cancel the burn. In an earlier topic i had another problem where it seemed it was the firmware was outdated. The other suggestion was to get a new burner......Is that really my only option? I thought this was a good burner. Any additional help would awesome, that doesnt cost anymore $$$. No log attached as it doesnt produce errors and couldn't copy for some reason. PS. i've tried burnng at 2X and 4X with same results Thank you ALL

Please help, i've looked at other posts and can't find the same errors. I first had to get rid of the stupid "secrets" error. Now i bought DL Verbatim DVD+R2.4X And still can't finish a burn. I currently have a external Sony DL DRX-710UL. I keep trying things and wasting expensive DL DVD's please help.........LOG LISTED BELOW BTW...i have cleaned the burner I 22:08:25 ImgBurn Version 2.4.4.0 started! I 22:08:25 Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 22:08:25 Total Physical Memory: 522,732 KB - Available: 185,088 KB I 22:08:25 Initialising SPTI... I 22:08:25 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 22:08:25 Found 2 DVD