Genaugmen

Well, I downloaded newest drivers directly from the manufacture of my motherboard (Gigabyte)and now everything is back to normal. Buffer stays at 100%! Checking out resource monitor prior, I was only getting 11-12MB/sec from that drive during burning which is weird because speeds during something like copying files was normal. 3 different projects burned and verified in just a few seconds over 13mins! Thanks for the assistance.

Updated SPTD and uninstalled but no difference.

I'll try out test mode. It takes much longer for buffers to fill than when the burn process starts, and then the hard drive activity message for 15-30 seconds. And of course burning is paused during this whole time. Prior to the reinstall the hdd buffer stayed full and device buffer stayed basically full other than dipping down 10%-15% here and there. Even when the burners reached reached 12x buffers were staying full. Burn and verify had consistently been just over 12mins when burning on all 3 simultaneously. Can you explain the difference between i/o buffer and the write buffer? And how could I track down whatever is behind the hdd activity message? I can't find any other processes making use of the hdd. Fragmentation is 1% on system drive, 0% on 1.5TB drive. Read buffer is set to 100MB. "Test mode is not supported by the current media (dvd+r). I'm at a lost. I'm getting a caution message about Duplex Secure's SPTD drive can have a detrimental effect on drive performance. That might be Daemon tools I guess, but I had the same version installed before and never experienced any problems. Possible issue this time around though? I missed going into discovery mode, trying test run again. Oh well, same message about the media when trying to run test again.

Here's the drive my files for burning are on. Couldn't add with an edit.

I've never had a problem burning 3 at a time as long as I don't go higher than 12x. But now it seems to stop feeding the buffers all together until all three are completely empty. I've burned around 400 dvd's this way with no issues. Just recently updated all three burners and been all good. No problems until win7 reinstall. I did do all of the optional updates this time around (except language packs). Maybe something to do with that. But some of them I noticed help with compatibility with older software, noticed that when I was setting up my sons last system. I've never even seen these buffer/hdd activity messages in all of my use until now.I guess I should add that almost all the files I burn are on a 1.5Tbyte drive. The 500gig drive is my system drive, I guess where things are buffered. I'm adding a screenshot of the other drive.

I've been using imgburn for a few months or more to burn multiple disk at once. I'm usually burning 3 at a time at 12x. I've had no problems with buffer or hard disk keeping. I just recently did a fresh install of win 7 64bit and now I have these buffer problems and messages about hard disk activity continually while burning anything more than 1 disc. I was burning three disc in 7 mins or so before, now, well a whole lot longer. The burning process is constantly stopping while buffers recover and then the messages about hard disk activity. All of my drives are sata (optical and hdd). My cpu usage is around 5%. 2 disc just finished burn and verify after 28mins, one just started verifying. Burning and verifying all three was only taking around 12mins before. What on earth could have caused such a drastic change on the same hardware? My system is less cluttered than before. Actually I've made 2 changes to the system but can't see how they would relate to the problem. I added a second video card and the hypersli patch, but can't see where that would come into play with this issue.

WOW! That's great. This is the best product support experience of my life. I can't thank you enough!

It would be a much appreciated tweak. Imgburn is the first burning software that has allowed me to make efficient use of my three burners. That small little change/addition would make my archiving efforts a little less tedious.

Oh well. At least I've found a way to burn those folders as intended which is my primary concern. With all of the options and control that you otherwise have, you wouldn't think the solution for this issue would be so convoluted though. Thanks for help!

It's nice that imgburn wants to assume the type of project I'm trying to burn, but is there no way of choosing differently than what the program assumes? It asks in other situations. Or is manually creating a folder in advanced input window and then dropping my files into that folder the only option I have?

Well I just noticed the advanced input method. But imgburn still only adds the contents of the folder to the project, not the folder itself. I see that I can create a folder and then put the contents in it afterwards, but why can I not just drag the folder over and the file structure remain intact? Why does imgburn insist on removing the parent directory if dvd video files are contained within? There has to be a more straight forward way to do this!? I back up a lot of stuff and I like imgburn because I can run 3 instances and burn & verify all 3 at once at 12x. But the extra steps involved with simply backing up my movie projects is annoying.

I was having the hardest problem finding out how to change the disc type to 'data'. I changed the file system to udf and now it burns folders containing video_ts and audio_ts as a data disc, but it eliminates the folder that these files are in. imgburn doesn't give the option concerning root directory, the resulting disc has only the contents of the folder that the dvd video files are in but not the folder that contains them. This is really annoying as I'm trying to archive dvd projects and I need the named folder that contains the project, not just the contents of the folder. Any help??