After some 15 years of being a dedicated burner, I am at a crossroads and am having to ask for help after having installed 2 brand new Asus DRW-24F1st b ATA DVD burners. First things first, I have run Microsoft's Fixit.dvd.RNP.Run.exe thinking that there may have been a compatibility problem. There was some filtering changes but Microsoft came through with the statement that my 2 drives were ready to use. As of today, every burned disc is now a coaster. I have tried other software, namely Ashampoo Burning Studio 12 which I purchased 3-4 years ago. It's now gone to the internet bitbucket. I Uninstalled ImageBurn, then reinstalled it twice in the last 14 days. No changes were made to the settings, other than setting the speed to Max (16). So here I'm stuck with one of the highest rated burners, namely, ImgBurn v2.5.8.0 as my sole burning device. I installed it some 4 months ago and had nothing to say but slow down as the slowest my older burners would burn at was 8x. Much too fast for my taste buds. But every DVD came out perfect. I use 2 Md5 programs for checking every burn: namely MD5 Checker for the source files and MD5 Summer for the summary of everything in the directory/folder(s) being burned. I purchased the ASUS burners as I presumed the compatibility would be perfect as I've been running for the last 5 years an ASUS P7P55D-E motherboard, with 8G ram. The OS is Windows 7 Ultimate. Here's the bizaree part of each bad burn. It's always the last source folder listed alphabetically that shows bad sectors. That is to say, if I have 10 folder in a directory, it's #10 subfolder that both my MD5 progies eventually says its unreadable. Always! Secondly, the log files say that there are corrupted sectors on the Sony DVD. That's absurd. I can understand as I've had files fail because they did not pass the MD5 authenticity test. But the sectors were not bad. Originally, a week ago when I put in the burners, I began, as usual, to burn straight data folders with Ice's ECC recovery volumes filling up the rest of the DVD. This ECC recovery program is nothing short of amazing. My redundancy rate generally runs between 120-150% of the source data. So I'm burning some 2000-2100 mg of data with the remaining space of 2500+ balance of a 4.7 disc being devoted to Ice ECC recovery volumes. Therefore, I can recover the entire DVD not just an individual file. This is something QuickPar could never do. And by the way, for some 10-12 years, I've used nothing but Sony DVD-R. I have quite a few spindles full of Sony discs that are 14-15 years old and are still Perfect! DVD+R's don't work as they are not compatible with ICE's ECC system. I switched to converting the source files to an ISO a couple of days ago, thinking that whatever the problem is, this may make it easier being burned. No change. Every DVD has bad sectors shown in the last sub folder/folder. Being the last folder made me think that I have a buffer problem inside of Win7. So I started reburning with Cacheman 7.9 controlling the memory's cache files. Again No Change. I also installed WinISO to see if the ISO it created were close in side. They weren't. Still No Change in the validation process of the last source folder. So WinIso is now history also. So the problem(s) are now done to 3 categories: (1) Windows 7 Ultimate; (2) ImgBurn 2.5.8.0 and\or (3) the ASUS burners. As far as Windows 7, I'll put my money elsewhere. I run sfc /scannow every day after booting the bad boy up to the desktop. Always without any violations of any kind. If there were any, I would use Rollback Rx to revert back to yesterday in 10 minutes. I've always reviewing my Event Viewer for anything related to anything material such as hardware. There were problems in the past with the old burners, but now that they're gone, so has the notifications. I run an excellent spyware everyday also as I have a lifetime subscription to Super Anti-Spyware. Is my problem with (#2) ImgBurn? I'm at a loss. Is 6x too slow keeping in mind that my DVD's are maxed-out in size. But I've been burning at maximum (16 speed, not AWS), with a better percentage of successful burns, maybe a 20-25% rate of success. But that's a lot of coasters. I do not understand all of the settings within ImgBurn, so I leave them alone. Whenever I do have any error because of sectors, I have cleaned out the Graph Data Files in the user directory, with some success. Not always. I personally think it's still a caching problem, but have nothing to fall back on. Or is it the ASUS burners? I have used these Asus burners to burn a DVd Movie. It wasn't ImgBurn, but rather ConvertX to DVD. It made a beautiful burned copy. Somewhere there's a demon in side this bad boy!!! Here's the latest Log from yesterday: Any food for thought would be appreciated. Thanks guys ; //****************************************\\ ; ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 - Log ; Wednesday, 14 January 2015, 19:04:09 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 17:38:00 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 17:38:00 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7601 : Service Pack 1) I 17:38:00 Total Physical Memory: 7,862,328 KiB - Available: 5,557,656 KiB W 17:38:00 Duplex Secure's SPTD driver can have a detrimental effect on drive performance. I 17:38:00 Initialising SPTI... I 17:38:00 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 17:38:01 -> Drive 1 - Info: ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (J:) (ATA) I 17:38:01 -> Drive 2 - Info: ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (K:) (ATA) I 17:38:01 Found 2 DVD±RW/RAMs! I 17:47:15 Operation Started! I 17:47:15 Building Image Tree... I 17:47:15 Checking Directory Depth... I 17:47:15 Calculating Totals... I 17:47:15 Preparing Image... I 17:47:15 Checking Path Length... I 17:47:15 Contents: 20 Files, 5 Folders I 17:47:15 Content Type: Data I 17:47:15 Data Type: MODE1/2048 I 17:47:15 File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 17:47:15 Volume Label: Media-5860 (TV) I 17:47:15 Size: 4,687,419,790 bytes I 17:47:15 Sectors: 2,288,788 I 17:47:15 Image Size: 4,688,052,224 bytes I 17:47:15 Image Sectors: 2,289,088 I 17:47:18 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:03 I 17:47:18 Operation Started! I 17:47:18 Source File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 17:47:18 Source File Sectors: 2,289,088 (MODE1/2048) I 17:47:18 Source File Size: 4,688,052,224 bytes I 17:47:18 Source File Volume Identifier: Media-5860 (TV) I 17:47:18 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 462E8DE60022EDBF I 17:47:18 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.8.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! I 17:47:18 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 17:47:18 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 17:47:18 Destination Device: [3:0:0] ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (J:) (ATA) I 17:47:18 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: RITEKF1) I 17:47:18 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x I 17:47:18 Destination Media Sectors: 2,298,496 I 17:47:18 Write Mode: DVD I 17:47:18 Write Type: DAO I 17:47:18 Write Speed: MAX I 17:47:18 Link Size: Auto I 17:47:18 Lock Volume: Yes I 17:47:18 Test Mode: No I 17:47:18 OPC: No I 17:47:18 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 17:47:19 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 22,160 KB/s (16x) I 17:47:19 Filling Buffer... (80 MiB) I 17:47:20 Writing LeadIn... I 17:47:47 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 2289087) I 17:47:47 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2289087) I 17:52:48 Synchronising Cache... I 17:53:00 Exporting Graph Data... I 17:53:00 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Jim\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\ASUS_DRW-24F1ST_b_1.00_WEDNESDAY-JANUARY-14-2015_5-47_PM_RITEKF1_MAX.ibg I 17:53:00 Export Successfully Completed! I 17:53:00 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:05:35 I 17:53:00 Average Write Rate: 15,209 KiB/s (11.2x) - Maximum Write Rate: 21,869 KiB/s (16.2x) I 18:43:46 Operation Started! I 18:43:46 Building Image Tree... I 18:43:47 Checking Directory Depth... I 18:43:47 Calculating Totals... I 18:43:47 Preparing Image... I 18:43:47 Checking Path Length... I 18:43:47 Contents: 22 Files, 5 Folders I 18:43:47 Content Type: Data I 18:43:47 Data Type: MODE1/2048 I 18:43:47 File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 18:43:47 Volume Label: Media-5861 (TV) I 18:43:47 Size: 4,680,332,937 bytes I 18:43:47 Sectors: 2,285,332 I 18:43:47 Image Size: 4,681,007,104 bytes I 18:43:47 Image Sectors: 2,285,648 I 18:43:52 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:05 I 18:43:52 Operation Started! I 18:43:52 Source File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 18:43:52 Source File Sectors: 2,285,648 (MODE1/2048) I 18:43:52 Source File Size: 4,681,007,104 bytes I 18:43:52 Source File Volume Identifier: Media-5861 (TV) I 18:43:52 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 462E95750022E041 I 18:43:52 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.8.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! I 18:43:52 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 18:43:52 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 18:43:52 Destination Device: [3:0:0] ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (J:) (ATA) I 18:43:52 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: RITEKF1) I 18:43:52 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x I 18:43:52 Destination Media Sectors: 2,298,496 I 18:43:52 Write Mode: DVD I 18:43:52 Write Type: DAO I 18:43:52 Write Speed: MAX I 18:43:52 Link Size: Auto I 18:43:52 Lock Volume: Yes I 18:43:52 Test Mode: Yes I 18:43:52 OPC: No I 18:43:52 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 18:43:52 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 22,160 KB/s (16x) I 18:43:52 Filling Buffer... (80 MiB) I 18:43:53 Writing LeadIn... I 18:44:15 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 2285647) I 18:44:15 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2285647) I 18:49:10 Synchronising Cache... I 18:49:28 Exporting Graph Data... I 18:49:28 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Jim\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\ASUS_DRW-24F1ST_b_1.00_WEDNESDAY-JANUARY-14-2015_6-43_PM_RITEKF1_MAX.ibg I 18:49:28 Export Successfully Completed! I 18:49:28 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:05:31 I 18:49:28 Average Write Rate: 15,548 KiB/s (11.5x) - Maximum Write Rate: 21,870 KiB/s (16.2x) I 18:50:02 Operation Started! I 18:50:02 Building Image Tree... I 18:50:02 Checking Directory Depth... I 18:50:02 Calculating Totals... I 18:50:02 Preparing Image... I 18:50:02 Checking Path Length... I 18:50:02 Contents: 22 Files, 5 Folders I 18:50:02 Content Type: Data I 18:50:02 Data Type: MODE1/2048 I 18:50:02 File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 18:50:02 Volume Label: Media-5861 (TV) I 18:50:02 Size: 4,680,332,937 bytes I 18:50:02 Sectors: 2,285,332 I 18:50:02 Image Size: 4,681,007,104 bytes I 18:50:02 Image Sectors: 2,285,648 I 18:50:04 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:01 I 18:50:04 Operation Started! I 18:50:04 Source File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 18:50:04 Source File Sectors: 2,285,648 (MODE1/2048) I 18:50:04 Source File Size: 4,681,007,104 bytes I 18:50:04 Source File Volume Identifier: Media-5861 (TV) I 18:50:04 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 462E96400022E041 I 18:50:04 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.8.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! I 18:50:04 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 18:50:04 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 18:50:04 Destination Device: [3:0:0] ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (J:) (ATA) I 18:50:04 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: RITEKF1) I 18:50:04 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x I 18:50:04 Destination Media Sectors: 2,298,496 I 18:50:04 Write Mode: DVD I 18:50:04 Write Type: DAO I 18:50:04 Write Speed: MAX I 18:50:04 Link Size: Auto I 18:50:04 Lock Volume: Yes I 18:50:04 Test Mode: No I 18:50:04 OPC: No I 18:50:04 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 18:50:04 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 22,160 KB/s (16x) I 18:50:04 Filling Buffer... (80 MiB) I 18:50:05 Writing LeadIn... I 18:50:33 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 2285647) I 18:50:33 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2285647) I 18:56:25 Synchronising Cache... I 18:56:34 Exporting Graph Data... I 18:56:34 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Jim\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\ASUS_DRW-24F1ST_b_1.00_WEDNESDAY-JANUARY-14-2015_6-50_PM_RITEKF1_MAX.ibg I 18:56:34 Export Successfully Completed! I 18:56:34 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:06:30 I 18:56:34 Average Write Rate: 13,023 KiB/s (9.6x) - Maximum Write Rate: 19,086 KiB/s (14.1x) I 18:56:34 Cycling Tray before Verify... W 18:56:43 Waiting for device to become ready... I 18:56:53 Device Ready! I 18:57:00 Operation Started! I 18:57:00 Source Device: [3:0:0] ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (J:) (ATA) I 18:57:00 Source Media Type: DVD-R (Book Type: DVD-R) (Disc ID: RITEKF1) I 18:57:00 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x I 18:57:00 Source Media Supported Write Speeds: 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x I 18:57:00 Source Media Sectors: 2,285,648 (Track Path: PTP) I 18:57:00 Source Media Size: 4,681,007,104 bytes I 18:57:00 Image File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 18:57:00 Image File Sectors: 2,285,648 (MODE1/2048) I 18:57:00 Image File Size: 4,681,007,104 bytes I 18:57:00 Image File Volume Identifier: Media-5861 (TV) I 18:57:00 Image File Volume Set Identifier: 462E96400022E041 I 18:57:00 Image File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.8.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! I 18:57:00 Image File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 18:57:00 Image File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 18:57:00 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / MAX I 18:57:01 Read Speed - Effective: 16x I 18:57:01 Verifying Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 2285647) I 18:57:01 Verifying Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2285647) W 19:03:13 Failed to Read Sectors 2204416 - 2204447 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 19:03:27 Failed to Read Sectors 2208384 - 2208415 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 19:03:37 Failed to Read Sector 2208385 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 19:03:37 Sector 2208385 maps to File: \White Fang S01 E21\White Fang S1 E21 Poachers.mp4 E 19:03:42 Failed to Read Sector 2208385 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error E 19:03:42 Sector 2208385 maps to File: \White Fang S01 E21\White Fang S1 E21 Poachers.mp4 E 19:03:42 Failed to Verify Sectors! I 19:03:48 Exporting Graph Data... I 19:03:48 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Jim\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\ASUS_DRW-24F1ST_b_1.00_WEDNESDAY-JANUARY-14-2015_6-50_PM_RITEKF1_MAX.ibg I 19:03:48 Export Successfully Completed! E 19:03:48 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:06:42 I 19:03:48 Average Verify Rate: 11,014 KiB/s (8.1x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 20,817 KiB/s (15.4x) I 19:03:53 Close Request Acknowledged I 19:03:53 Closing Down... I 19:04:09 Shutting down SPTI... I 19:04:09 ImgBurn closed! ; ; ; //****************************************\\ ; ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 - Log ; Wednesday, 14 January 2015, 15:27:58 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 15:26:24 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 15:26:24 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7601 : Service Pack 1) I 15:26:24 Total Physical Memory: 7,862,328 KiB - Available: 5,718,956 KiB W 15:26:24 Duplex Secure's SPTD driver can have a detrimental effect on drive performance. I 15:26:24 Initialising SPTI... E 15:26:24 Failed to check for ImgBurn update! I 15:26:24 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 15:26:25 -> Drive 1 - Info: ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (J:) (ATA) I 15:26:26 -> Drive 2 - Info: ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (K:) (ATA) I 15:26:26 Found 2 DVD±RW/RAMs! I 15:27:58 Close Request Acknowledged I 15:27:58 Closing Down... I 15:27:58 Shutting down SPTI... I 15:27:58 ImgBurn closed!
