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With ImgBurn in Write mode, right-click the burner's name and click Capabilities. Is it able to write DVD+R DL? Take a screenshot if you can.

Install this (reboot if asked) then install this (also reboot if asked). Please report if one or both failed to install.

Please post the log from when you've burned the bad disc (look in ImgBurn's Help menu).

Use a lens cleaning disc on that burner. Have you tried the other available write speeds?

Post the log from when that happened (look in ImgBurn's Help menu).

Install this, reboot when asked, then try looking at the DMA setting again (it should be enabled already).

That's a great burner, but first check if your motherboard has a SATA port available because that's a SATA burner (your current burner is IDE/PATA).

Update ImgBurn if you haven't already. Try with Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden blanks. You might also want to use a lens cleaning disc on that burner.

Try with the 2.4x Verbatim blanks if you can find them. It also might be worth using a lens cleaning disc on that burner.

Please read the pink banner at the top of this page. You can find the older logs in ImgBurn's Help menu.

Please read the pink banner at the top of this page.

Your drive is too old and only supports DVD+R media.

You'll need to buy a DVD burner in order to burn DVDs. The burner you have now can only burn CDs.

The latest models by Pioneer, Optiarc and Lite On are good.

There are no firmware updates for your LG burner on that page Try a lens cleaning disc in that burner to see if it helps.

Update your burner's firmware (remove any disc and close the tray before updating then reboot after it's finished) and try burning at 8x or 12x. Are you going to play that disc on a DivX player? If not you might want to use only the UDF 1.02 filesystem, so that you can keep the original filenames.

2.4x is the only available write speed, so even if you choose 2x the burner will still use 2.4x. It seems your burner's firmware has poor support for the Verbatim blanks, which, by the way, are the best you can get on the market. You can try other dual-layer blanks if you want but I'm not sure they'll work. Look in the laptop's manufacturer website for firmware updates for your burner, as that could add better support for the Verbatim blanks.

If you don't want to change anything in the source then you don't need to re-build it. This is the guide that tells you how to burn an ISO image.

With ImgBurn in Write mode and a blank disc in the drive, copy and paste here all the disc information text shown in ImgBurn's window.

You can find the older logs in ImgBurn's Help menu.

Do you have another burner where you could try those blanks? What's their brand and where are they made? You may want to try a lens cleaning disc on that drive but I'm not sure if it'd help.

ImgBurn shows exactly what your drive is "saying", and yours thinks there's no disc inside. If it's an older DVD burner (the manufacturing date is printed on the label on top of the burner) try getting the 8x rated blanks.

That burner is just as old as the other one and also doesn't support the blanks you're using. Get the Verbatim 2.4x DVD+R DL blanks as LUK said above or get a new burner that supports your blanks. By the way, you can find the previous logs in ImgBurn's Help menu.

Burn faster at 8x or 12x.

Post the log of those burns (look in ImgBurn's Help menu).