mmalves

Provided that the system can "see" the drive at all ²

Take the burner apart, remove the flash chip (some are socketed but most are soldered onto the board), take to someone who has a chip flasher device and proper socket, have them flash the firmware on your chip, then put it all back together.

What's the brand of the media you're using? Have you tried burning at 8x? Also you should avoid using the computer while burning, so that you're less likely to get buffer underruns.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000 Your burner already has the latest firmware.

It's easier and cheaper (considering the amount of time and work you'd spend on fixing it) to just get a new burner. I'd recommend a new Optiarc burner if you have a SATA port available.

You should enable Windows Update (look in Control Panel) so that your OS is updated to the latest version. After doing that, and possibly rebooting a few times, look for the latest drivers for your chipset/storage controllers (this website might help).

Yes.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

As LUK said above:

Run Windows Update (look in Control Panel) and install Service Pack 1 and all other updates it offers. After doing that (and possibly rebooting) look for the latest Win7 x64 drivers for your chipset/storage controllers: SIW can identify them so0 you can look at manufacturer's website, or you could try this website.

Update your burner's firmware and try burning at 4x, as per the topic I posted above.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

If you don't plan on burning the ISO image to media then you can ignore the layer break.

WinRAR associates itself with the .iso extension and opens it as if you wanted to extract the contents of the ISO image. You can mount that ISO image to a virtual drive like Daemon Tools / Virtual CloneDrive / DVDFab Virtual Drive / etc and play it like a real disc. You can also burn that ISO image to a rewritable disc. VLC Media Player can play directly from the ISO image file you've created. Alternatively, if you have Media Player Classic, you can open/drag+drop the VIDEO_TS.IFO file and it'll play like a disc, saving you all the trouble of making an ISO image.

Perhaps this is what you're looking for? http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=6380

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

It's probably easier to make a bootable USB HDD/pendrive with the application in it, if there isn't a downloadable package for it already.

You've disabled the Verify option, so we don't know if the disc was burned correctly or not. You could use Beyond Compare, or even HashTab, to compare the source file and file burned on the disc to see if they match (they should). The only other thing I can think of is disabling Unicode support for UDF filesystem (Advanced tab -> Restrictions tab -> UDF tab) but it's unlikely that this is the problem. By the way, there's newer firmware available for your burner.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=61

1- Right-click the burner's name and choose Erase Disc -> Full or use the "little red eraser on a disc" button just below the burner selector list. 2- use the Discovery mode with the Verify option enabled: ImgBurn will then write zeroes on the whole disc and read them back in the Verify stage. It is a full burn + verify of the whole disc.

You do know that you can sort files by Type (extension), right?

Update ImgBurn. That disc was damaged in a previous failed burn and that's probably why your burner ignored ImgBurn's 12x write speed command. Try with a brand new blank disc. AWS is Automatic Write Speed and, if it's not configured by the user, it defaults to MAX write speed, which of course depends entirely on your burner's capabilities.

Without the log we can't see what you're doing nor what the problem is.

Or switch to advanced input mode and use the Disc Layout Editor to see how your files/folders will actually be placed on the disc.

ImgBurn didn't do it by itself: you, or someone who used your computer, enabled the Include Archive Files Only, which makes ImgBurn ignore any files that don't have the Archive attribute set, and for that reason it's disabled by default.