Shamus_McFartfinger

Aw.... shucks. I'm all embarrased and shit now..... and I'm going all gooey in the nether regions. Nurse! A beer for my friend - stat!

Reading is reading. If your drive can read the data at 1x, it'll read it at 16x.

Somebody likes me! WooHoo! :cheerleader:

I think Digital Digest had it floating around somewhere a while back.

Slow down and a take a deep breath. Yes. We are talking about Windows. Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista and the various server versions all support proper, multiple password-protected accounts, which is due mainly to the filesystem used to format the HD (NTFS instead of FAT32). NTFS supports larger drives and is also much more secure. I'll put myself to sleep if I start telling you why it's better. Have a look on Google or something. The thing that interests you is multiple accounts and viruses. Yeah? Multiple accounts. You can set up hundreds of different accounts if you wanted to. Each has their own desktop (background pics, icons etc) and each has their own set of installed programs. Each users sets things up as they like them. If you install ImgBurn (or Opera) you'll see a requester asking if the program should be installed for a single account or for everyone. Pretty self explanatory. Each individual account can be password protected and cannot be viewed or fiddled with by anyone who doesn't know the correct password. (Administrators are the exception to this but that's another story). However, anyone can view or modify any desktop if the HD is formatted with FAT32 as it offers no protection at all. NTFS, by design, prevents users from using any account but their own. Viruses. In the same way users can't access other accounts, viruses can't either. A non-administrative user can suffer an attack and have all their files deleted but it won't affect anyone else. Even a FORMAT HD command issued by a trojan or whatever will fail as a smart administrator will limit what their users have access to. Again, this is only with NTFS. Regardless of the precautions you take, if you use FAT32 and a user suffers a virus attack, it will affect everyone.

Logs are saved automagically. Open Imgburn and select the HELP menu > ImgBurn Logs It'll look something like this: ; //****************************************\\ ; ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.18 Beta - Log ; Sunday, 04 November 2007, 19:56:09 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 10:50:08 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.18 Beta started! I 10:50:08 Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195 : Service Pack 4) I 10:50:08 Total Physical Memory: 1,571,568 KB - Available: 945,820 KB I 10:50:18 Initialising SPTI... I 10:50:18 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 10:50:18 Found 3 DVD-ROMs and 1 DVD±RW! I 10:50:48 Operation Started! I 10:50:48 Building Image Tree... I 10:50:48 Calculating Totals... I 10:50:48 Preparing Image... I 10:50:48 Checking Path Length... I 10:50:48 Contents: 1 File, 0 Folders I 10:50:48 Size: 730,880,000 bytes I 10:50:48 Sectors: 356,875 I 10:50:48 Image Size: 731,447,296 bytes I 10:50:48 Image Sectors: 357,152 I 10:50:48 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00 I 10:53:23 Operation Started! I 10:53:23 Building Image Tree... I 10:53:23 Calculating Totals... I 10:53:23 Preparing Image... I 10:53:23 Checking Path Length... I 10:53:23 Contents: 5 Files, 0 Folders I 10:53:23 Size: 3,167,735,808 bytes I 10:53:23 Sectors: 1,546,746 I 10:53:23 Image Size: 3,168,305,152 bytes I 10:53:23 Image Sectors: 1,547,024 I 10:53:23 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00 I 10:53:52 Operation Started! I 10:53:52 Building Image Tree... I 10:53:52 Calculating Totals... I 10:53:52 Preparing Image... I 10:53:52 Checking Path Length... I 10:53:52 Contents: 6 Files, 0 Folders I 10:53:52 Size: 3,879,217,664 bytes I 10:53:52 Sectors: 1,894,150 I 10:53:52 Image Size: 3,879,796,736 bytes I 10:53:52 Image Sectors: 1,894,432 I 10:53:52 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00 I 10:54:58 Operation Started! I 10:54:58 Building Image Tree... I 10:54:58 Calculating Totals... I 10:54:58 Preparing Image... I 10:54:58 Checking Path Length... I 10:54:58 Contents: 7 Files, 0 Folders I 10:54:58 Size: 4,606,911,788 bytes I 10:54:58 Sectors: 2,249,470 I 10:54:58 Image Size: 4,607,475,712 bytes I 10:54:58 Image Sectors: 2,249,744 I 10:54:58 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00 I 10:55:10 Operation Started! I 10:55:10 Building Image Tree... I 10:55:33 Calculating Totals... I 10:55:33 Preparing Image... I 10:55:33 Checking Path Length... I 10:55:33 Contents: 7 Files, 0 Folders I 10:55:33 Size: 4,606,911,788 bytes I 10:55:33 Sectors: 2,249,470 I 10:55:33 Image Size: 4,607,475,712 bytes I 10:55:33 Image Sectors: 2,249,744 I 10:55:35 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:25 I 10:55:35 Operation Started! I 10:55:35 Source File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 10:55:35 Source File Sectors: 2,249,744 (MODE1/2048) I 10:55:35 Source File Size: 4,607,475,712 bytes I 10:55:35 Source File Volume Identifier: TESTICLE I 10:55:35 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.4.0.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! I 10:55:35 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 10:55:35 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 10:55:35 Destination Device: [2:1:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D 1.21 (I:) (ATA) I 10:55:35 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: MCC 02RG20) (Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x) I 10:55:35 Destination Media Sectors: 2,297,888 I 10:55:35 Write Mode: DVD I 10:55:35 Write Type: DAO I 10:55:35 Write Speed: MAX I 10:55:35 Link Size: Auto I 10:55:35 Test Mode: No I 10:55:35 OPC: No I 10:55:35 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 10:55:36 Filling Buffer... (40 MB) I 10:55:41 Writing LeadIn... I 10:56:13 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 2249743) I 10:56:13 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2249743) I 11:03:36 Synchronising Cache... I 11:03:54 Image MD5: 04a2b13cb7865460628f594da72d4434 I 11:03:55 Exporting Graph Data... I 11:03:55 Graph Data File: C:\Program Files\ImgBurn\PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVR-112D_1.21_SUNDAY-4-NOVEMBER-2007_10-55_AM_MCC_02RG20_MAX.ibg I 11:03:55 Export Successfully Completed! I 11:03:55 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:08:19 I 11:03:55 Average Write Rate: 10,156 KB/s (7.3x) - Maximum Write Rate: 11,180 KB/s (8.1x) I 11:03:55 Cycling Tray before Verify... I 11:04:16 Device Ready! I 11:04:17 Operation Started! I 11:04:17 Source Device: [2:1:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D 1.21 (I:) (ATA) I 11:04:17 Source Media Type: DVD-R (Book Type: DVD-R) (Disc ID: MCC 02RG20) (Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x) I 11:04:17 Image File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 11:04:17 Image File Sectors: 2,249,744 (MODE1/2048) I 11:04:17 Image File Size: 4,607,475,712 bytes I 11:04:17 Image File Volume Identifier: TESTICLE I 11:04:17 Image File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.4.0.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! I 11:04:17 Image File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 11:04:17 Image File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 11:04:17 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / MAX I 11:04:17 Verifying Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 2249743) I 11:04:17 Verifying Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2249743) I 11:10:40 Device MD5: 04a2b13cb7865460628f594da72d4434 I 11:10:40 Image MD5: 04a2b13cb7865460628f594da72d4434 I 11:10:45 Exporting Graph Data... I 11:10:45 Graph Data File: C:\Program Files\ImgBurn\PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVR-112D_1.21_SUNDAY-4-NOVEMBER-2007_10-55_AM_MCC_02RG20_MAX.ibg I 11:10:45 Export Successfully Completed! I 11:10:45 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:06:23 I 11:10:45 Average Verify Rate: 11,748 KB/s (8.5x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 17,171 KB/s (12.4x) I 19:56:09 Close Request Acknowledged I 19:56:09 Closing Down... I 19:56:09 Shutting down SPTI... I 19:56:09 ImgBurn closed!

Posting a log in the support forum would be a good place to start.

Just don't burn CDs with it. My Pioneer 112 refuses to burn CDs. Go figure.

No worries. We'll be here somewhere.

Not quite. You can find Mozilla here: http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7.7 A good reason to set up multiple user accounts. Everyone has their own desktop that way. If your HD is formatted to use NTFS (the file system), it means that another user can suffer a virus attack and have their files wiped without affecting files on the other accounts. So... you could set yourself up as an administrator to be able to properly maintain your PC and everyone else as a user if you wanted to. Multiple accounts will fix this problem altogether.

Some details would be nice. Such as: Do you just want to copy this file onto a disk? or Do you want to make the file playable in a DVD player?

1. Sounds like scaremongering to me. An internet cafe is anonymous. So is a free wi-fi hotspot like an airport. So is using your neighbours unprotected wi-fi. Even a proxy affords some anonymity. 2. Anyone who surfs the net with cookies enabled on their browser needs bending over a barrel and then humped silly. FWIW, I use 3 browsers. I use IE with cookies enabled only for EBay and Paypal and I don't allow third party cookies. I use Mozilla with cookies enabled for this and two other forums. Nothing else. For surfing the net I use Firefox with cookies turned off. Firefox also has 3 sets of ad blockers, a script blocker, a referral blocker and various other add-ons to defeat the crap that's out there. I also use an extended HOSTS file. There is no reason to allow cookies from every site you visit. *cookie rant off*

Tutorial here: http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?s=&...post&p=6175

We'll be here when you return.

If it's single layer, then it should read from the centre out. If a standard ISO Read/ISO write fails and your media/drive isn't the problem, then there is likely copy protection of some sort present. We cannot help you with anything that involves the bypassing of any such protection.

You seem a little confused. Let me help. OTP - Opposite Track Path - Disk reads from the centre to the outside edge then changes layers and reads from the outside toward the centre. This minimises the time it takes for the laser in your DVD player to re-focus on the second layer when you watch a movie, for example. (Called the "Layerbreak"). PTP - Parallel Track Path - Disk reads from the centre to the outside edge then changes layers and reads from the centre to the outside edge again. With the exception of developer drives , almost all burners are OTP. Burning PTP (like a GPS disk) as OTP places the information contained on the disk in the wrong place. As I said, it's part of the copy protection.

I agree with the guys. This has come up many times over the last couple of years. If the source is PTP and your burner uses OTP (which it does), then doing a standard copy just won't work. It's part of the copy protection which we won't discuss here.

Not to be funny but can I ask - why bother? You can buy a good burner for less than the cost of a carton of beer. Even if this option was available, you'd still have to get up and go feed discs into the networked machine.

I'd also grab a registry tool to see what's being loaded at startup. A virus will certainly stop you from installing ImgBurn as well. Try "Housecall" and see what happens. Also, grab RegCleaner to see what is allowed to run at startup. Housecall - http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ RegCleaner - http://www.webmasterfree.com/RegCleaner_d7625.html

LOL!! That'll work! You're an evil man, Donta.

There's also the fact that DVD5s (single layer) still have the majority of the market share. The demand for DL simply isn't there when most people don't have the need to dump terabytes of data onto the more expensive DL format. With huge harddrives as cheap as they are, portable harddrives and large pen drives/jump disks cheaply available, there just isn't the need for them as much anymore. At least that's my opinion.

A couple of things stand out here. The optical drive (your DVD thingy) on the SATA port and your media. Lightning is the expert with these but I know there's been huge problems with them over the past couple of years. I think it best for him to field this one. Your media (even though it's Verbatim) can be a bit dodgy. Verbatim -R is great. +R/DL is great. +R is a bit dodgy. I've never had any luck with them myself. Pretty ordinary really. Grab some -Rs and see how you go.

Crappy disks is usually the problem. In this case, your drive can't read what it just burnt. Post the full log so we can see what's happening. Help Menu > Logs

Geez, how about helping us out a bit by posting a logfile? Otherwise we're going to be playing guessing games for a week. Help us help you. Help menu > Logs

LOL! You'll fit in here nicely.