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Shamus_McFartfinger

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  1. The author didn't continue a great program, just stole a piece of a great program, hence my confusion about what it could and couldn't do.

     

    LOL!! Go back to your Playstation, boy. You've got neither the brains nor wit to operate something as complicated as this software. Come back when your balls drop.

  2. Can I use ImgBurn to copy my wife's laptop Recovery DVD (which I gather is a bootable DVD) to CDs which would also be bootable? That is to span the DVD across 4 CDs (like could be done with spanning a CD across floppies)?

    Nope.

    The DVD function on the laptop doesn't work - no idea why but we tried everything ages ago - yet the DVD drive works just fine as a CD drive. We have a USB DVD drive for the laptop, but the laptop doesn't have an option to boot from a USB device. We need something bootable in order to install a new hard drive as the old one has failed.

    Why not try this instead? http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310994

  3. I assume that because Iso is an image file it has to be converted first before I can actually burn it into a DVD so that it can be read by a DVD player. I am certain this question has been asked before so I wouldn't mind if one of you guys could post a link to a similar thread with instructions.

     

    Thank you for all your help Lightning UK and Jason! I appreciate it! :thumbup:

     

    Try here:

     

    http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=61

  4. Ok - I try to play them in my laptop but they freeze up on me. And you're saying if they're going to freeze while playing in my laptap, I'm not going to be able to copy them because they're not playing properly correct?

     

    They're likely not playing properly because of a flaw within the disk or damage to the disk itself. For example, the different layers that make up a DVD can separate making it impossible for the laser in your drive to focus correctly.

     

    Are you also saying that the DVD's will read differently in different devices. Like it may read poorly in my laptop but could play perfectly well in a DVD player. And are there different qualities of DVD's players where they would play better than others?

     

    A normal DVD player in your loungeroom has different programming to the one in your PC. Your PC will bitch and complain about just about every error it finds. The one in your loungeroom is programmed to skip errors if it can. An error that your PC can't resolve will be probably be skipped without you even noticing on a standalone unit.

     

    Is there something I can do to the DVD's to make them play better, clean them, etc.

     

    Not really. If your disk is stuffed to the point of not reading after being cleaned, then it'll remain stuffed. You can't repair a dodgy disk.

     

    I can't reburn the tapes again because I taped over them once my Dad got them onto DVD's.

     

    Not much you can do. You could always try a DVD recorder to copy the files onto its harddrive and re-copy the files onto a DVD. In any case, it's not a software problem.

  5. Thanks, all. :D Had a pretty good day. Got slightly happy at the pub and woke up a bit hoarse the next day from laughing like an idiot too much. :)

     

    Lightning - I share birthdays with your brother in law... apparently. =))

  6. Just to clarify something: - ImgBurn (or any other burning program for that matter, including Blindwrite), has nothing to do with the quality of your burn. Everything is dependant on the quality of the drive and the quality of your media. All ImgBurn does is send a set of commands to the drive. It's then up to your drive to figure out what to do next. Also, CMC media is garbage. If you have any left, toss them into the bin and save yourself some pain.

  7. Short answer: Nope.

     

    Long answer: Lightning_UK wants people to know they are using his program. If the window could be hidden or supressed using the command-line, there would be nothing stopping some leech from including it in a software package and hiding it from the user.

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