brucey42085

Turns out literally ALL of my issues were due to crappy media. i went out and bought some verbatim discs and have had no issues since, thanks everyone for your help, and for anyone reading, if youre having difficulties and youre using the cheaper media, trust me, you gotta spend the extra cash if you want good results.

Update your burner's firmware (remove any disc and close the tray before updating then reboot after it's finished) and try again. If it doesn't help then you could try cleaning the burner with a lens cleaning disc or getting a new burner that supports the dye used on those blanks. While you're at it you might want to take a look at this too Thanks, ill give that a try. I wanted to ammend some things real quick. I did get it to burn what i thought was a successful backup of my fifa 10 for xbox, it ran through the whole burning process fine and everything but i still cant get my sbos to recognise it. is this still an issue of "cheap" media or is there something else i could be doing wrong?

Okay so let me see if im understanding this correctly. When i get a finalise disc error... I 13:29:27 ImgBurn Version 2.5.0.0 started! I 13:29:27 Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 13:29:27 Total Physical Memory: 2,095,596 KB - Available: 1,540,920 KB I 13:29:27 Initialising SPTI... I 13:29:27 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 13:29:27 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM! I 13:30:10 Operation Started! I 13:30:10 Source File: I:\games2\mdough-fifa10.dvd I 13:30:10 Source File Sectors: 3,827,488 (MODE1/2048) I 13:30:10 Source File Size: 7,838,695,424 bytes I 13:30:10 Source File Volume Identifier: DVD_ROM I 13:30:10 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 356fc000MS UDFBridge I 13:30:10 Source File Application Identifier: CDIMAGE 2.45 (12/06/2000 TM) I 13:30:10 Source File Implementation Identifier: Microsoft CDIMAGE UDF I 13:30:10 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.50) I 13:30:10 Destination Device: [5:0:0] TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H652L 0603 (D:) (ATA) I 13:30:10 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: RITEK-S04-66) (Speeds: 2.4x) I 13:30:10 Destination Media Sectors: 4,173,824 I 13:30:10 Write Mode: DVD I 13:30:10 Write Type: DAO I 13:30:10 Write Speed: 2.4x I 13:30:10 Link Size: Auto I 13:30:10 Lock Volume: Yes I 13:30:10 Test Mode: No I 13:30:10 OPC: No I 13:30:10 BURN-Proof: Enabled W 13:30:10 Write Speed Miscompare! - Wanted: 3,324 KB/s (2.4x), Got: 2,770 KB/s (2x) I 13:30:10 Book Type Setting: DVD-ROM I 13:30:10 User Specified L0 Data Zone Capacity: 1,913,760 I 13:31:38 Set L0 Data Zone Capacity Succeeded! I 13:31:39 Filling Buffer... (40 MB) I 13:31:41 Writing LeadIn... I 13:32:04 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 3827487) I 13:32:04 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 3827487) I 13:32:04 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1913759) I 13:51:16 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 1913760 - 3827487) I 14:10:38 Synchronising Cache... I 14:10:41 Closing Track... I 14:11:00 Finalising Disc... W 14:11:36 Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (99%, 0/3) - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead Out W 14:11:36 Finalise Disc Failed! - Reason: Session Fixation Error Writing Lead Out W 14:11:36 Retrying (1 of 3)... W 14:12:54 Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (94%, 0/3) - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead Out W 14:12:54 Retry Failed - Reason: Session Fixation Error Writing Lead Out W 14:12:54 Retrying (2 of 3)... W 14:15:34 Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (77%, 0/3) - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead In W 14:15:34 Retry Failed - Reason: Session Fixation Error Writing Lead In W 14:15:34 Retrying (3 of 3)... W 14:18:16 Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (77%, 0/3) - Session Fixation Error Writing Lead In W 14:18:16 Retry Failed - Reason: Session Fixation Error Writing Lead In I 14:18:24 Exporting Graph Data... I 14:18:24 Graph Data File: C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Application Data\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\TSSTcorp_CD-DVDW_TS-H652L_0603_TUESDAY-JANUARY-19-2010_1-30_PM_RITEK-S04-66_2.4x.ibg I 14:18:24 Export Successfully Completed! I 14:18:24 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:48:13 I 14:18:24 Average Write Rate: 3,309 KB/s (2.4x) - Maximum Write Rate: 3,413 KB/s (2.5x) ... is it purely because im using "cheap" media? Is there anything i can do with the discs i have, other than just keep trying them until one works, that can save me some money of buying new ones?