mmalves

Try a lens cleaning disc on that drive.

Crappy media or old firmware/burner most likely. Of course we would know for sure if you posted the whole log from that burn

AWS defaults to MAX if you don't set it to something else. In your case, MAX is 4x and, at that speed, your burner refused to burn that crappy media. When you set it to 2.4x it was able to burn, but have you verified it? Please read this if you haven't. By the way, you might want to try the 1.03 firmware update for your burner (remove any disc and close the tray before updating then reboot after it's finished).

To play them on a standard DVD player you'll have to convert them with DVD Flick, ConvertXtoDVD or similar program.

If xbc works at 6x then ImgBurn should also work 6x, have you tried that?

Does xbc verify its burns?

Update your burner's firmware (remove any disc and close the tray before updating then reboot after it's finished). Also notice that 2.4x isn't an available speed, hence it was burning at the closest available speed, which is 4x.

Please run SIW and copy what it shows under Hardware -> Motherboard (you can select all the lines and copy/paste them in a reply). Have you tried a cleaning disc on that drive? Does it read OK other DVDs?

Install this driver, reboot the computer, then install this driver and reboot again. Try burning at 4x or 6x with a brand new blank disc to see if it works.

There's no way to force the firmware update Look on Asus website for newer firmware for your laptop/burner model, but in any case, you'd get better burns with the Verbatim 2.4x blanks mentioned above

Try the other available write speeds, and if they don't work, then please read this: http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

It seems the drive doesn't support booktyping

ImgBurn automatically booktypes +R media to DVD-ROM on LG (HL-DT-ST) burners. If it doesn't work for you then either the drive doesn't support it or something is blocking the command. If you try manually in the LG tab of the Book Type dialog, what does it say?

Search? Where? Is it hidden? Apparently no one can find it

It's not the same issue. Please start your own thread and, this time, post the whole log from that burn (the one you've posted is missing information at the top).

It's probably because you're using low quality media (please read this). In any case the controller/driver should return the correct error codes (write error/etc), not some useless "no additional sense" By the way, try using SIW to find out which chipset you have (look in Hardware -> Motherboard).

Do you know which motherboard you have? Or which SATA controller the burner is connected to? Seems like the controller driver could be messing up things.

Are you using the latest ImgBurn version? Your log is incomplete hence we can't see which version you're running and which interface you're using.

You did see a scrollbar in the Log window, didn't you? Update to the latest ImgBurn (if you had posted the full log from that attempt we'd know which version you're using ) and do as rasheed said in post #2

Can you try reading those disc on another drive/computer?

Install the latest ImgBurn (if it asks about keeping the settings choose No), open it and pay attention to screen: what does it say in ImgBurn's status bar? What does it say in the last line of the Log window?

There's no way to force ImgBurn to do what you want. Try using IsoBuster to make an ISO image from that disc, maybe it can do the necessary conversion.

Depends on the system BIOS: if it isn't 3+ years old it should be able to boot from USB devices.

As far as I know, they always did Windows XP and newer have a built-in ZIP extract feature (a.k.a zipfldr.dll) but it seems most people disable it or use a program that takes over.

Use 7-Zip instead: it's better and it's free