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Yes, if you only have SATA devices then you'll need to use IDE compatibility mode in your BIOS. That way the drive(s) will be detected and available (look for MSCDEX's status saying the drive letters).

If your burner doesn't support the current blanks on the market then it's time for a new burner, don't you think? By the way, ImgBurn shows what your drive is telling, so it's your burner that needs to support the media or not. And that FAT32 message is nothing to worry about

Try a lens cleaning disc on that drive, and if it doesn't help, you may want to replace that burner or buy an external one.

Are you using the Queue feature? You do know that the tray is cycled before the verify step, right? If you suspect it's a problem with the settings, re-install ImgBurn and tell it not to keep your current settings.

You'll have to use Google to find out

If you're using ImgBurn to read the original games it won't work, because they're protected and ImgBurn can't copy protected discs.

Yes.

It won't make a difference

Start your own thread and post the log (look in ImgBurn's Help menu).

ImgBurn shows exactly what your drive is telling, besides, the burn success and the burn quality rely on the burner/firmware/media/write speed combination: the software just feeds data accordingly. You are aware that the laser precision needs to be higher in order to burn dual-layer media, right? And that equipment can get dirty and wear out?

You can get the logs through ImgBurn's Help menu

Without the verify we still don't know if it was a good burn or not

We need to know if it was a bad burn or not. If it passes verify then the disc is fine and it's your console that needs fixing.

Use the Verify mode to check that disc against the source image. Without the verify we don't know if it's a good burn or not.

Post the log of that burn (look in ImgBurn's Help menu).

Your drive doesn't like the media you're using. Try with Verbatim 2.4x (MKM-001-00 dye) blanks and it should work.

She said that because some burners don't like controllers in AHCI or RAID modes, but they do work in IDE compatibility mode.

Using a rewritable disc isn't a requirement, you can burn it to write-once media without problems. I just said rewritable so that you wouldn't waste a disc for burning just a few kilobytes

Try burning at 4x, and if that doesn't work, you should start looking for an external enclosure of your choice with a normal-size burner inside.

What's the brand of the media you're using? Use the Verify mode to check that disc against the source image. Next time you're burning leave Verify enabled as that ensures the disc was correctly burned.

I've done that for a lot of laptops using this Win98SE floppy image: WIN98SE.zip In the Bootable Disc tab, enable Make Image Bootable, set Emulation Type to Floppy Disk (1.44 MB), click the folder icon and choose the WIN98SE.IMG file then click OK. Now add your BIOS binary and flasher to the source list, choose ISO9660 filesystem in the Options tab and burn to a rewritable disc with Verify enabled (this is important). You may need to set your storage controller to IDE mode in the BIOS for this to work. After the disc boots you should see the drives' letters shown by MSCDEX

ImgBurn doesn't even touch the video/audio of anything you burn, so how could it be the culprit? Care to post the log of one of those burns?

The two seconds pause is the PreGap, which in ImgBurn you can set to zero when creating a CUE file. As for the hidden track, I think you'd need to look at the Media Information from the original disc (this in Read mode) to see how it was done and how it could be replicated

The one you've extracted with IsoBuster is the same as the one ImgBurn extracts, but ImgBurn's method has another advantage: as soon as you extract the boot image, ImgBurn will ask you if you want to use the same settings on the current Build, and when you answer Yes, it fills all the correct fields for you

We have a guide for doing that right here -> http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=11190 (you can skip to the burning part)