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Great first post

Read this. And check your firmware etc....

As far as I could research, if it's not built into the MATSHITA drive you can't do it. They really are a piece of work, you might be better off buying a new external drive anyway.

Your drive set the speed, you have done nothing wrong.

Whoa and hold up a second here tml74047. You asked the question and was given the answer for someone with your described problem. Sony discs are not up to the quality needed, in your case, to accomplish what you want to do. They may have served you well for three years, but they were bound to let you down after a while. We see this from all manufacturers, but we see it far less with discs manufactured using Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim dyes. If you compute the cost difference between TY or Verbs and the amount lost by having to reburn your image onto a couple discs before you achieve a good burn, your discs are far more costly than either of the ones recommended here. If your system is 3 years old, you may be in the position of having to replace the optical drive, as it may be failing after all this time, they do not last as long as one would imagine and are prone to going South after a few years. Especially ones located in laptop units. I didn't answer you with attitude, just a quick solution to your problem. The remark about the search function bringing you here makes no sense since this is what you would have gotten by using our internal search function. spinner

Start by getting some Verbatim DataLifePlus or Taiyo Yuden discs since these are crap. Try writing at different speeds and not max since your optical drive doesn't like them to begin with. See if your manufacturer has a firmware update for your drive available. PS...You would have known all this if you had tried the search function....

Understand. I used .mds to make it 4 characters...

Let us know...say in a year or so...how well the Memorex held up...will ya???

Hi SnooSnoo and welcome to the forum. Had you used the search function...or read the guides that are provided for your ease of use with this program... you would have found the following under the guide so skillfully written by Cynthia: "Select MDS File Not ISO This will tell you to select the MDS file rather than the ISO file when you select an ISO file for burning and its MDS file exists. In most cases you should select the .ISO file when you want to burn the image. In some cases there is the need to select the .MDS file instead: . Your hard disk is not NTFS formatted As Windows 98 and some other older Windows versions are based on the FAT 32 file system (and a lot of people still use this even under Windows XP) which cannot handle files larger than 4 GB and ISO files containing movie data usually are larger than 4 GB, the created ISO is split on such systems into a multi part or segmented ISO which consists of several 1 GB files with an enumerated extension like .i01, .i02 and a .mds file of a few bytes which holds info on the parts. . You are going to burn to a DL disc MDS is just a file that is generated along with the ISO file when making a 1:1 copy or creating an ISO file on your hard drive. It just basically tells your burner where to put the layer break for dual layer burning."

KenNashua; 1. Unless the problem is exactly the same...start your own thread. 2. Even if you think the problem is exactly the same...start your own thread. 3. In the event 1 or 2 is correct, post a complete log when you...start your own thread......

Your discs are actually Ritek DL's and are junk. Many people have to look around the internet if their local brick and mortar stores do not carry what they need....sorry.

Good to see you remembered where we were, haven't you graduated yet?

$99.99 in the States at Best Buy, not bad.....

Steptoe... Did you stop to think before you answered, that maybe...just maybe...we didn't answer for a reason? We offer no guidance here about transcoding, ripping or fussing with data in the many ways it can be fussed with. This is the ImgBurn website, other info can be gathered by the poster if they follow our sometimes lame attempts to push them in the right way without getting involved in things that we should not. spinner.

XB burnah...post a logfile as Cynthia suggested please.

Crap disc...outdated firmware...bad drive...without the log, as requested in the beginningof this forum, your guess is as good as ours.....

Hi dido.

Understood...We can remember when Ritek, Maxell and Memorex were the cats ass also, but things have changed, corporate greed and the need for extreme profits have supplanted the need for quality....as well as the fact that the Asian Rim countries are now producing all the crap discs they can for major brands to rebadge and getting a pretty good penny for their efforts.

Verify is a step that we highly recommend. It does a 1-1 comparison of the data and assures that you have a good burn. Most of the stand alone dvd players are somewhat forgiving when it comes to data stream errors because their logarythems are built to 'fudge in' missing data whereas your optical drive in the computer cannot be since it has to follow the logic intrinsically applicable to your system.

It just never ends

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