Vizual Prophet

Sorry your right it was an Infiniti 360 disk I used that time. I've got them in the same spindal. I will try other media then, I tried burning with Ashampoo Burning Studio there & the program crashed at 50% as well. Thanks for taking the time to try & help.

I checkout out that website, got a few updates, tried burning it at 6x and this time it didn't freeze at 50% but I got the same error at 50% - i managed to copy the log this time though, does this add any insight?? (P.S. I'm using verbatim disks) I 13:56:13 ImgBurn Version 2.5.1.0 started! I 13:56:13 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (6.0, Build 6002 : Service Pack 2) I 13:56:13 Total Physical Memory: 3,144,012 KB - Available: 2,427,312 KB W 13:56:13 Drive F:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size. I 13:56:13 Initialising SPTI... I 13:56:13 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 13:56:13 -> Drive 1 - Info: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7243S 1.03 (E:) (ATA) I 13:56:13 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM! I 13:56:50 Operation Started! I 13:56:50 Source File: C:\Users\VizualProphet\Documents\sp-popfs.dvd I 13:56:50 Source File Sectors: 3,827,488 (MODE1/2048) I 13:56:50 Source File Size: 7,838,695,424 bytes I 13:56:50 Source File Volume Identifier: DVD_ROM I 13:56:50 Source File Volume Set Identifier: ec67c000MS UDFBridge I 13:56:50 Source File Application Identifier: CDIMAGE 2.45 (12/06/2000 TM) I 13:56:50 Source File Implementation Identifier: Microsoft CDIMAGE UDF I 13:56:50 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.50) I 13:56:50 Destination Device: [3:0:0] Optiarc DVD RW AD-7243S 1.03 (E:) (ATA) I 13:56:50 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: RICOHJPN-D01-67) (Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x) I 13:56:50 Destination Media Sectors: 4,173,824 I 13:56:50 Write Mode: DVD I 13:56:50 Write Type: DAO I 13:56:50 Write Speed: 6x I 13:56:50 Link Size: Auto I 13:56:50 Lock Volume: Yes I 13:56:50 Test Mode: No I 13:56:50 OPC: No I 13:56:50 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 13:56:50 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 8,310 KB/s (6x) I 13:56:50 Book Type Setting: DVD-ROM I 13:56:50 User Specified L0 Data Zone Capacity: 1,913,760 I 13:56:56 Set L0 Data Zone Capacity Succeeded! I 13:56:56 Filling Buffer... (40 MB) I 13:56:56 Writing LeadIn... I 13:57:00 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 3827487) I 13:57:00 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 3827487) I 13:57:00 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1913759) I 14:06:03 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 1913760 - 3827487) W 14:06:11 Failed to Write Sectors 1914304 - 1914335 - Reason: Power Calibration Area Error W 14:06:11 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 14:06:11 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:11 Retrying (2 of 20)... W 14:06:11 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:11 Retrying (3 of 20)... W 14:06:11 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:11 Retrying (4 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (5 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (6 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (7 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (8 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (9 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (10 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (11 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (12 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (13 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (14 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (15 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (16 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (17 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (18 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (19 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error W 14:06:12 Retrying (20 of 20)... W 14:06:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Write Error E 14:06:25 Failed to Write Sectors 1914304 - 1914335 - Reason: Power Calibration Area Error I 14:06:25 Synchronising Cache... W 14:06:29 User opted to skip the 'Close Track/Session/Disc' functions. E 14:06:29 Failed to Write Image! I 14:06:29 Exporting Graph Data... I 14:06:29 Graph Data File: C:\Users\VizualProphet\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\Optiarc_DVD_RW_AD-7243S_1.03_23-MAY-2010_13-56_RICOHJPN-D01-67_6x.ibg I 14:06:29 Export Successfully Completed! E 14:06:29 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:09:39 I 14:06:29 Average Write Rate: 6,776 KB/s (4.9x) - Maximum Write Rate: 8,798 KB/s (6.4x)

Unfortunately I forgot to save the log on that occasion, and every other time I do it, it gets to 50% and then just does nothing. for example at the moment I have one attempting to copy but it's been sitting at 50% doing nothing for the past 15mins. I'll post a pic & the log from that below. I 12:50:36 ImgBurn Version 2.5.1.0 started! I 12:50:37 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (6.0, Build 6002 : Service Pack 2) I 12:50:37 Total Physical Memory: 3,144,012 KB - Available: 2,283,592 KB W 12:50:37 Drive D:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size. W 12:50:37 Drive F:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size. I 12:50:37 Initialising SPTI... I 12:50:37 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 12:50:37 -> Drive 1 - Info: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7243S 1.03 (E:) (ATA) I 12:50:37 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM! I 12:50:43 Operation Started! I 12:50:43 Source File: C:\Users\VizualProphet\Documents\sp-popfs.dvd I 12:50:43 Source File Sectors: 3,827,488 (MODE1/2048) I 12:50:43 Source File Size: 7,838,695,424 bytes I 12:50:43 Source File Volume Identifier: DVD_ROM I 12:50:43 Source File Volume Set Identifier: ec67c000MS UDFBridge I 12:50:43 Source File Application Identifier: CDIMAGE 2.45 (12/06/2000 TM) I 12:50:43 Source File Implementation Identifier: Microsoft CDIMAGE UDF I 12:50:43 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.50) I 12:50:43 Destination Device: [3:0:0] Optiarc DVD RW AD-7243S 1.03 (E:) (ATA) I 12:50:43 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: RICOHJPN-D01-67) (Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x) I 12:50:43 Destination Media Sectors: 4,173,824 I 12:50:43 Write Mode: DVD I 12:50:43 Write Type: DAO I 12:50:43 Write Speed: 2.4x I 12:50:43 Link Size: Auto I 12:50:43 Lock Volume: Yes I 12:50:43 Test Mode: No I 12:50:43 OPC: No I 12:50:43 BURN-Proof: Enabled W 12:50:43 Write Speed Miscompare! - Wanted: 3,324 KB/s (2.4x), Got: 5,540 KB/s (4x) I 12:50:43 Book Type Setting: DVD-ROM I 12:50:44 User Specified L0 Data Zone Capacity: 1,913,760 I 12:50:49 Set L0 Data Zone Capacity Succeeded! I 12:50:49 Filling Buffer... (40 MB) I 12:50:49 Writing LeadIn... I 12:50:53 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 3827487) I 12:50:53 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 3827487) I 12:50:53 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1913759) I 13:02:49 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 1913760 - 3827487)

Every time I try to burn a dual layer disk it freezes or I get an error message at 50% - I've tried formatting my hard drive, buying a new dual layer drive, different disks, nothing seems to work! Can someone please help. Most of the time when the writing process gets to 50% it just stops. According to ImgBurn its still writing but it just stays at 50% and says the time remaining is unknown. Sometimes though I get an error message at the exact same percentage. I I've posted an image of the error I get. I used to be able to burn disks with no problems, when this first started happening I binned my old writer & bought a new one, but I'm now guessing that wasn't even the problem!