Shamus_McFartfinger
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Bitsetting is automatic on Pioneer drives - well, for DVD+R DL media anyway.
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I recently bought a number of Memorex Dual Layer DVDs
I 18:42:24 Destination Media Type:Disc ID: RITEK DVD+R DL (-S04-66) (Speeds: 2.4x)
Just to clarify, you didn't buy Memorex media but RITEK as shown above. Our experience shows them to be dodgy at best. Grab some Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim media and see if it helps. Just so you know, niether ImgBurn nor Nero is at fault here. Your drive is reporting an error (maybe the drive itself but more than likely the media) and the burning software is displaying that error.
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What a great little tool. Works a treat.
If ImgBurn already has files in the queue, is there any way you can tweak it to add more files instead of opening another copy of ImgBurn? -
Please post your log.
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It's been a long day. See? Human afterall.
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Multi-session (in the technical sense of burning some now and some later) just isn't used by the majority anymore. Most of us here have fought with InCD and other packet writers at one stage or another but since the advent of flash drives and also cheap, high capacity HDs, we just don't use multi-session.
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You're right. It doesn't make sense. At least not to me anyway. ImgBurn was never designed to be a professional backup utility. It's for general, everyday use by non-professionals. That said, automating the backup is the easy part via a batch file and a cron or scheduler but you're talking about manually changing paths and directory structure within ImgBurn itself for reasons that are obviously beyond me as we try to teach people to prepare their task before burning. It makes things easier for us as well and for the majority of users.
Perhaps I'm just being stubborn but a task like a bootdisk isn't going to change radically. Afterall, you will retain most of the directory structure and the files included within. Changes obviously take place but the basic structure of the disk will remain unchanged and intact. Maybe a few sub-folders or files changed but your root folder is essentially the same.
Lastly, copying 8GB of data to a folder somewhere isn't as much of a problem as it used to be. Particularly if you're using the same folder all of the time and also because large capacity HDs are so cheap these days. Microsoft have free sync software available to scan for changes in a source folder and automatically create backups via the scheduler. Also, batchfiles for copying a large amount of files can also be run via the scheduler. I'm not trying to be a dick but if your files are that critical, send them to another HD and then send those files to ImgBurn and do both tasks automatically.
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My thoughts exactly. I'm regularly using bootable cd's, as USB bootable device compatibility is an issue for a lot of systems. These bootable discs need regular updating: new versions of recovery tools, virus definifition files, bugs in the multiple bootable environments on it, etc. It would be a rather expensive task to write a new disc for every minor change, and the readability of rewritable media is far from optimal.
Furthermore, I think incremental backups alone would justify the implementation of multisession writing: one should be able to make backups at any time, not just when there's enough data to fill up an entire disc. When it comes to that, it might already be too late... In addition, the absence of multisession writing would make one to use a less reliable rewritable medium for crucial backups.
I can't help it. Here's my 2c worth.
Re: Systems with non-bootable USB drives:-
Without knowing any details on who you're talking about exactly, (yourself or other people using your end product), I suggest that if the ability to perform a boot from a flash drive is needed, buy some hardware that supports it. My crappy Athlon 2400 boots from a flash drive. It's 5 years old and currently running FreeNAS. It has a stonking 256MB of RAM and 4 x 400gig HDs in it. It's pretty much useless for anything else but I can't ask the software vendors to downgrade their software to support such antiquated and crappy hardware.
Re: Media expense:-
You say you're using CDs? I bought a tub of 100 Taiyo Yuden CDs a few weeks back for $30. That's 30c each. Doing one backup a day, your backup costs for the entire month is $9. $108 for the year. That's works out at:
Less than 1 x junior burger per week or
Less than 1 x beer per week or
About 6 x cigarettes per week.
Hardly a bank-breaker.
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I don't know what the boss thinks of this but it seems like alot of screwing about for something that can be more easily managed with a decent file manager before adding it to the build. i.e. Preparing what you want to burn before loading ImgBurn.
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purple side down
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Is there anyway to disable the warning that IB gives me, in the log, that FAT32 drives can't handle files bigger than 4GBs? I already know this. And I have four USB drives connected to my rig; just tired of looking at the explanation points!!
Also, why does IB warn me when I have a certain piece of Antiguan software running and IB in read mode?!!
Why use FAT32 anyway?
convert [drive]: /fs:ntfs
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What a spoilsport you are. Here are some of the massive benefits the SC101 brings you
1. You get to use a file system thqt no normal human being has any experience of. You never need to use those boring file management tools that we all spent years using. You get to hunt the web for new ones. By the way you will not find any. Their own crappy one is useless, all part of the party.
2. Each time you fire up a computer you get to visit their utility in the hope that you will be able to reconnect. I suggest a sweepstake on the amount of time it will take.
3. Each time you log on it changes the drive letter for each member drive. This allows you to visit all of your scheduled backups and change the (dammned) drive letter on each variant.
4. You get to lose lots of data regularly.
5. You can spend hours phoning America at massive cost to be diverted to India and some incoherent help desk worker will tell you that he/she has never heard of Storage Central ... is it a railway station in New York?
During most sessions the little, devil will overheat at least once so you have lots of time for a cup of coffee (or perhaps a strong drink to calm your nerves).
.... and finally you can have the pure joy of slinging the bloody thing in the bin.
By the way, their help service is there to help their revenue, not you.
Try Freecom.
Me? Bitter? Naaaaaaaa!
A fellow, former owner I'm guessing. They really were a chunk of shit. How it got past beta testing is beyond me. Shit. Shit. Shit.
I would like to take the time to thank you for dredging up this miserable moment in our shared history and ask you not to mention it again. Like a dose of genital herpes, it's far from being one of lifes' highlights. Infact, were I ever to contract this particular STD, I would wear it as a badge of honour if given the choice of admitting to it or to the actual purchase of a Netgear NAS.
Freecom? Nah. 1TB drives are now less $AU300. All donations can be sent to:
The Shamus McFartfinger HD fund
c/o The station you are now viewing.
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Is that drive in a laptop? My Optiarc drive hates anything over 4x.
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thank you for all your help its workign awesome! i jsut didn't understand. sorry....
Windows 2000 and XP (Vista?) has an undocumented "feature". That feature being if a drive has trouble reading, it will automatically switch from DMA (fast) to PIO (slow). The problem is that it doesn't switch back, which means your drives will run like a sick dog. Slow and lethargic. Compounding the problem is the fact that Windows will report that everything is working A-OK and that DMA is enabled when it isn't. If your HD/DVD is reading or writing very slowly, the best option is to go into DEVICE MANAGER and uninstall the IDE controllers. This forces Windows to re-install them after re-booting and sets them as DMA instead of PIO, allowing your drives to run at full speed.
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Crap.
I will not get another beer while replying to posts.
I will not get another beer while replying to posts.
I will not get another beer while replying to posts.
I will not get another beer while replying to posts.
I will not get another beer while replying to posts.
I will not get another beer while replying to posts.
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but will Read Mode copy the original position of the layer break of a DL DVD?
If your source is unprotected and you read the disk to an ISO image, you will get a 1:1 copy.
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i just had this wild idea after i used imgburn to make iso's from dvds.
is it actually possible to image my whole C drive with imgburn?
of course i have enough space i have 160 GB HD and right now C takes up about 30 GB
i'm just wondering if this is possible. has anyone actually tried it before?
Wouldn't a second harddrive be a better idea? Hardware is getting cheaper every day. A 500gig external drive costs $AU150 these days.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Western-Digital-500...1QQcmdZViewItem
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I was reading some other stuff and it said to update my firmware, how could I do that?
For future reference.
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...and if you were wondering why Shamus wasn't included, he was in the corner trying to get his PC to work.
LOL!! Not far from the truth. One of them died a quick death a few days ago which is a proper pain in the arse. Surgery might fix it. Dunno yet.
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*sigh*
*using a CUE file -
Imgburn doesn't support multisession burning without a .cue file. Use Nero if you have to or, better still, a flash drive
burned dvd won't play in dvd player
in ImgBurn Support
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It shouldn't be hard if you are the one who created the ISO in the first place. That said, GSpot can help.
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/