rajmahid

You're correct, windows still "sees" the disc in the first drive, even though I moved it to another one! I'll puzzle over your "workaround" until I get it...or just keep ripping my discs in the same drive until your next fix emerges. In the interim I'll click until my fingers get blue, but the damned disc will continue to appear as a ghost in the original burner. And perhaps...someday...I'll enable themes to no productive end...despite being a strict minimalist :P I almost wish I'd kept Win2K instead of moving a wee bit into the "future" with XP

Yes, I can explore all my drives, but when I open ImgBurn ("most recently used" option selected) after the first rip, the attached pic shows what happens when I reopen it with disc in another drive. ADDENDUM: And when I insert the disc into the previous drive I ripped it with, see 2nd attached pic.

As far as I can determine, it's not a Windows thing because I have autoinsert disabled on every drive. The first thing I do when installing an o/s is tweak everything, ESPECIALLY autoplay, via Tweakui and manual methods. I even tried disabling it in all my drives via the registry. Rebooted and created an image file in drive "I", closed ImgBurn and moved the same disc over to drive "J" -- still the same message errors and lock-up, despite having all my source drives readily read. It's a real puzzle because every other image & burn program I have behaves normally, regardless of how many different drives I use. I'll keep searching for a solution...and let you know when/if I find one. In the meantime, rebooting or using the same drive for multiple DVDs is my only option.

I've been using this wonderful s/w since Day One with success, not a single glitch. UNTIL now! After I create a DVD backup image in Build mode, ImgBurn gives me the message "continue, retry, cancel" if I try to build an image of another disc using a different drive (I have 4) and proceeds to tell me "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive x:" and locks up -- no browsing or searching -- I have to manually shut it down. Only rebooting "refreshes" the process, allowing me do use a drive different than the one I recently used. It's never happened before. I'm running XP-SP3 (a new install on a new SATA pc...old one was vanilla IDE with windows 2000). I've rechecked ImgBurn's settings and everything seems fine. My only options when building multiple images with different drives are to reboot or use the same drive. Edit...almost forgot to mention, one dvd drive is sata the other three are ide. Is there something obvious I've overlooked?? Would appreciate some assistance. Regards, Raj