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Seems this discussion changed it's topic to Layer-break. Let's try with illustration. I need to create a DL disc (it does not matter if it is DVD or BD) with following layout:

Hello. Does ISO9660/UDF specification allows file fragmentation? Let's say a need to write 40 GB big backup file to 50GB disc. Because I don't know how reliable this disc is I decided to create 8 GB of recovery files with par2 utility. I am assuming that most critical is the layer-break area (few MB before and after) therefore I write these par2 files to that critical area (to both layers) and because the 40 GB file will not fit to one layer it will be splitted to 2 areas, it will surround par2 files. Thanks.

You probably just need to install the proper filters for ImgBurn to create a CD from. What file type are the source files? MP3? FLAC? etc. Depending on the file type, you may need specific filters for a particular file type. If you can't get that work, what might work is converting the files from one type to another, even if it's just from MP3 to MP3, the same file type, etc. Not all files are created equal and not always compliant with their specs. What happens when I have a file I can't get ImgBurn to make an audio CD out of, converting the file to another file type generally works. There are all kinds of freeware software converters out there.

I am guessing you mean how to queue a bunch of image files for burning one after another? I don't know if there's a way to manually create a Queue. I know you can Save and Load Queues but, and I'm not entirely sure, I think Queues are generated internally by ImgBurn only when multiple image files are created/read by ImgBurn. It adds each image file to the Queue which you can then Save and Load later for burning. If there is a way to manually create a Queue, someone else will have to tell you how to do it as this is the extent of my knowledge on the subject.

The alternative to daemon tools is 'virtual clone drive' by elby. You're looking to MOUNT an image into a virtual drive, which is completely different from extracting the files to your hard drive, from an existing image for. The only thing imgburn can do is either create an image (iso) or burn them to a disc. Verstuurd vanaf mijn Nexus 6P met Tapatalk

You can't mount multiple image files to the same virtual drive. What you'll have to do since you're limited to one virtual drive on your system with Daemon Tools is to mount each image one at a time and copy each drive's contents from each image file one after the other into 6 separate temporary folders. Alternatively, you could somehow convert the MDF files to ISO and install Virtual CloneDrive. It's free software and lets you create multiple virtual drives. It also mounts ISO files. That might work, but the conversion from MDF to ISO might not work right. I don't know. Another idea that might work. Virtual CloneDrive lets you mount what are called .DVD files. ImgBurn has a Tool option to Create DVD file. I don't know if .DVD files support .MDF image files or not, but instead of trying to convert from MDF to ISO first, it would be easier, if it works, to create a .DVD file and mount those in 6 separate Virtual CloneDrive drives. I don't know if there's a limit to how many drives you can have beyond the maximum 26 that would be allowed. And that number would be reduced by how many drives you have that show up in Windows/File Explorer.

Depends on how you're burning the CD. If you just use Read mode to read in a CD and then Write mode to burn the image of the disc you just read, you can't add track names as far as I know. The only way I know is to Create a CUE file and burn your own CD from MP3/etc. tracks. That way you can add the metadata, either imported from the track files or you can manually add it.

O.K. I think I got it. I'll burn each MDS file to a different DVD, then I'll create a Temporary folder with 6 subfolders, each for one of the six burned CDs. Then I'll copy each of the burned DVD's contents to the corresponding subfolders . I am not too sure how to proceed with the Build mode after that, in order to have all the 6 cd images in ONE DVD : I thought that , since the 6 subfolders would contain the already burned contents of the six individual DVD's, I wouldn't need to burn them again and that the build mode mode would simply transfer the 6 separate subfolders ( already burned) into one DVD. You seem to say that after the Build mode there is a 2nd stage where I have to burn again. Anyway, I'll go ahead and try. If it doesn't work, then, and only then, I'll let you know and you may want to clarify the above. If it works, I'll still let you know and you won't need to spend more time in clarifying. Less work for you. At this point, I have just seen your following post with a supposedly easier method. Since I have some questions on that , too, and I don't want to load you too much, bearing in mind that, as you seem to imply, a Forum like this is not a platform for a full course, let me try first the method you originally suggested. Thanks Ittiandro

Hello, I've tried to download ImgBurn from the first mirror provided by the official installation and got infected by an incredibly annoying piece of malware. It installs a bunch of stuff like a fake Firefox in a few different directories within AppData, which launches on startup. It also has another payload which closes every window and program until it finally hangs the system, forcing me to hard reset it. Both AVG and Malwarebytes fail to detect anything, So far I've deleted the fake 'Firefox' and disabled any suspicious program from launching on startup but I'm there's no guarantee this won't cause more headaches in the future. Looking through the forums, it seems I'm not the only one affected by this, which is rather disappointing because the developers haven't take any measures to prevent that from occuring again. It is a damn shame, because ImgBurn was the only program which allowed me to create an .iso file from a severely scratched DVD without any major hassle.

The MDS and MDF files you already burned to DVD are only good for burning as image files to disc or loading as virtual drives in a virtual drive program. That's how you'd access the contents on each CD. You could copy them from the DVD to a hard drive or just load them from the DVD, but you'd need 2 burner drives for that second option, one to read and one to write. Did you already burn 6 discs with the MDS/MDF files? If not, you'd need to burn them, preferably to rewritable discs, temporarily so you can copy the contents of each disc, e.g. that long list of files and folders that had the SETUP file in it, from each disc. These 6 individual discs are what you'd need to copy to 6 temporary folders in another temporary folder. And it would be these 6 temporary folders in a temporary folder itself that you would add to a Build job and burn to ISO and then to DVD. You will only ever be asked to erase a disc if it is rewritable. You'll never be asked to erase a CD-R, DVD-/+R, DVD-/+R DL, BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-R TL, or BD-R QL. Build mode is not batched. It will only queue image files to burn in a batch it creates. And, thus, you'd have to create more than 1 before burning one to queue. Unfortunately, I can't make it much clearer than what I've already done because, and I don't mean to sound condescending, but there are certain basics in navigating PC use that just can't be taught in a forum like this.

THanks I did uninstall from the computer the Acrobat Reader program installed from the CD during the original SETUP, hoping that it would connect to Sumatra by default, but it doesn't work. I must install Adobe Reader for my software to work. . Incidentally, when installing Acrobat Reader 3 from the CD, not only does it it create a folder under Program Files, as usual, but it also creates a 2nd Acrobat Reader 3 installation folder( apparently the same) at the root C:/. This must be the location from which my CD program reads the information to open Adobe, because if I delete this folder from the root, Adobe will not open from the Cd, even if the program has not been uninstalled. By doing so, I hoped to ..fool the system and that Sumatra would open by default, but it doesn't. Anyway,. no big deal, as long as I can read the texts. Concerning your suggestion about how to work withe the tablet micro-card. I'll try, once I have burned all the 6 CD's You are welcome with other suggestions. You have been of great help Ittiandro

Hi, I downloaded some ps1 games from a torrent website each one of these games contain multiple bin files and 1 cue file i looked into these cue files they contain data and audio tracks what i always do is use daemon tools lite (free version) to mount the cue files and use imgburn to create one single bin file and one single cue file by using create image file from disc and then setting read speed for data and audio both to 1x but with these games i get errors like these for example I 15:11:15 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 15:11:15 Microsoft Windows 8 Core x64 Edition (6.2, Build 9200) I 15:11:15 Total Physical Memory: 8.259.236 KiB - Available: 3.820.236 KiB I 15:11:16 Initialising SPTI... I 15:11:16 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 15:11:17 -> Drive 1 - Info: hp DVDRW DA8AESH XH6M (E:) (SATA) I 15:11:17 -> Drive 2 - Info: DiscSoft Virtual 1.0 (F:) (Virtual) I 15:11:17 Found 1 DVD±RW and 1 BD-ROM XL! I 15:11:22 Operation Started! I 15:11:22 Source Device: [0:0:0] DiscSoft Virtual 1.0 (F:) (Virtual) I 15:11:22 Source Media Type: CD-ROM I 15:11:22 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 48x I 15:11:22 Source Media Sectors: 250.409 I 15:11:22 Source Media Size: 588.961.968 bytes I 15:11:22 Source Media Application Identifier: PLAYSTATION I 15:11:22 Source Media File System(s): ISO9660 I 15:11:22 Read Speed (Data/Audio): 1x / 1x I 15:11:22 Destination File: C:\Users\Mohammed\Desktop\Game Systems\Sony PlayStation\Image.bin I 15:11:23 Destination Free Space: 149.116.166.144 Bytes (145.621.256,00 KiB) (142.208,26 MiB) (138,88 GiB) I 15:11:23 Destination File System: NTFS I 15:11:23 File Splitting: Auto I 15:11:24 Read Speed - Effective: 48x I 15:11:24 Reading Session 1 of 1... (3 Tracks, LBA: 0 - 250408) I 15:11:24 Reading Track 1 of 3... (MODE2/FORM1/2352, LBA: 0 - 223208) W 15:11:25 Failed to Read Sectors 702 - 728 - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Failed to Read Sector 710 - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Sector 710 maps to File: \AH__XA\BADGREEN.IXA W 15:11:25 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (2 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (3 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (4 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (5 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (6 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (7 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (8 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (9 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (10 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (11 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (12 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (13 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (14 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (15 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (16 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (17 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (18 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (19 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:11:25 Retrying (20 of 20)... W 15:11:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track E 15:11:27 Failed to Read Sector 710 - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track E 15:11:27 Sector 710 maps to File: \AH__XA\BADGREEN.IXA E 15:11:27 Failed to Read Sectors! I 15:11:28 Exporting Graph Data... I 15:11:28 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Mohammed\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\DiscSoft_Virtual_1.0_MAANDAG-27-AUGUSTUS-2018_15-11_N-A.ibg I 15:11:28 Export Successfully Completed! E 15:11:28 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:00:04 E 15:11:28 Average Read Rate: 400 KiB/s (2.0x) - Maximum Read Rate: 400 KiB/s (2.0x) its impossible for me to know what is the problem i have created many disc images in the past using imgburn all worked perfect but some games wont let me can anyone who has the technical knowledge explain how to solve this problem? thanks

I know nothing about Linux, but you say this installer for Linux is on an SD card? Are you trying to use ImgBurn to create an image of the SD card? If you are, ImgBurn won't do that. It's only for imaging optical discs. Otherwise, I don't know why you're asking a question on this in the ImgBurn Support forum. Are you trying to create a bootable image in Build mode with the contents from this SD card? That might be possible.

What I’m trying to see is exactly when this problem occurs. If you create the cue and the info within the file itself doesn’t match with what you think should be in it, that’s very different from things getting jumbled up during the burn or after it’s been burnt. So unfortunately, I need lots of info from all stages of the process. Screenshots of the cue creation part, the created cue itself, a log from the burn + verification process and then a final screenshot of the media info window when you’re in Read mode.

I have had Imgburn v2.5.8.0 working fine for a couple of years under WINE v 1.6.2 on Linux Mint 17.3 (based on Ubuntu 14.04). Recently I installed Mint 19 into a separate partition to dual boot with Mint 17.3. Mint 19 has WINE version 3.0 as the stable default. I installed Imgburn v2.5.8.0 apparently OK but when I started it the transparent splash screen was displayed but then hung - ie it never went on to open the Main and Log Windows. Despite repeated retries I couldn't get round this. I did manage to get ImgBurn working in the end. I went back to Mint 17.3 and installed ImgBurn in a separate Wine prefix using PlayOnLinux. I set the Windows version to XP and the Wine version to 1.7.25 and checked it all worked - it did. I also installed Wine version 1.7.25 on Mint 19 using PlayOnLinux (PoL). Then I just copied the entire Wine Prefix from PoL in Mint 17.3 to the same place in PoL Mint 19. PoL was able to create a Desktop Launcher but when I activated it all that happened was a couple of windows opened but they were just solid grey - no text or graphics. However I then switched the Wine version for the ImgBurn prefix in PoL to "System" (ie 3.0) and tried again and now Imgburn worked perfectly. It's a grotty workaround but if like me you really like to use ImgBurn it is a way forward until Wine and PlayOnLinux gets sorted out properly. I have had major problems with other WIndows programs which used to work perfectly but have required a lot of similar skulduggery and fiddling to get to work on Mint 19.

Hello, e-group! It seems that there is a problem with ImgBurn, or perhaps there is something wrong somewhere else. I used Dataram RAMdisk to create a RAMdisk drive, added some data to it, and then I saved the RAMdisk drive to my hard drive in the form of an .img image file. The size was 500mb. Then, I tried to burn this .img image file to a DVD+R in my Windows 7 using ImgBurn, but it didn't work. Thinking that there could be something wrong with my Windows 7, I tried to burn this .img image file to a DVD+R in a Windows XP system using ImgBurn again, but it didn't work, one more time. Thus, I decided to use my Puppy Linux and PBurn. To my amusement, the process worked perfectly fine in my Puppy Linux, and the .img image file was burned to a DVD+R. Does anybody know what's going on here? Could it be that ImgBurn is not compatible with a RAMdisk .img image file? Carlos Albert Disco Makberto

If you’ve download an iso (disc image file), you’d want to use the ‘write image file to disc’ option to burn it. The program reads a chunk from the iso and writes it directly to disc. If you’ve got (for example) a few folders full of files that you want to burn to disc, you’d use the ‘write files/folders to disc’ option. Think of an iso as a box or something. You can opt to ‘create image file from files/folders’ so it’s easier to deal with when you’re ready to burn it to disc.

Just to put things into proper perspective I have never used this program or otherwise burned an ISO to a DVD/created a bootable disk from it, I couldn't be more of a beginner. I picked up a used PC (from a certified MS rebuilder, I do not suspect any hardware issues), I did not want the HDD or the O/S on it, I am trying to get an updated version of Win 7 Ultimate on to a freshly NTFS-formatted ssd and get it running in this machine (I have the original media from MS but it is pretty old and i would be doing Windows updates all day). I have drivers for HP's main board on a jump drive, I am ready to go except for getting Win 7 onto the DVD in bootable form, actually I think I may have that now, but let me ask a question that my go a long ways for me. On the main screen of this program, in the mode that has the graphics (like the one showing a folder on the L and a R pointing arrow pointing to a disc on the R), what is the difference between "Create image file from files/folders" and "Write image file to disc"? The first time I tried the former, at the end of the process it opened my CD/DVD burner door (I do not have that option checked), with a message to manually close it, so I did and then the program seemed to start the process over from the start - this didn't seem right so I stopped that (I think maybe it was some sort of finalization process and I probably should have let it go). I tried again, this time I chose the other option, "Write image file to disc". It did the same thing at the end of the process but this time I let it go and it seems I now have a bootable DVD with Windows 7 on it, I put that in the DVD burner and rebooted the PC and it loaded Windows install program. Why would I have wanted to choose "Create image file from files/folder", though, as others have advised me to do?

You might want to, then, remove ImgBurn from the equation. Just copy the contents from the disc in Windows/File Explorer to a temporary location to do the "reading." Then, create a new DVD Video job in ImgBurn with that content.

thanks for your answer.. i know autoloader, my colleague buyed one, but I don't have so often this necessity to buy one. Nero, which as you know offers multi-burning from a single ISO, actually works in this way: - 3 optical drives, (On Nero software they figure connected as 2 serial ATA and 1 ATAPI, but I know all is connected by serial ata on my motherboard) - burning a single ISO from one non-system HDD drive I tried to put also ISO in SSD windows-system but no increase of performance in burning time, and in this way it seems to me not to fill buffer efficacely at the same way (as i can see empirically on nero software indicators). I have to say that rarely Nero fails burning, but it takes about 12 minutes to burn at 8x (I want however not to go over this velocity). So to clarify your suggestion: in case of using 3 istances of ImgBurn simultaneously, do I have to put 3 copies of the ISO on 3 different hard disks? Are they to be in a particular connection on motherboard in respect of optical drives? And last thing: with this configuration in your opinion will I be able to burn 3 DVDs in 8 minutes or only a test will clarify this? my fear is that, unlike a single software that controls the 3 burnings, instead 3 indipendent instances of imgburn can create peaks of data exchanges between the devices, that may fail the burning.... what do you think? thanks a lot for the support!

Hello everybody, I'm a long time ImgBurn user, but my first topic here. starting from here, a very old thread http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=2022 I have a intel i7 2600Mhz based PC (year 2011) with 8 GB RAM, SSD system drive + 2 HDD 7200 rpm, and 3 optical drives. I sometimes have the necessity to burn 50-100 copies of the same DVD-video ISO. In the past (when I had only 2 burners) I used 2 ImgBurn instances simultaneously opened, with 2 ISO images on 2 different hard drives, with good results. Now with 3 optical drives... I tried to use Nero for this, but burning time for 3 simultaneous DVD at 8x is about 12 mins (instead of 8 mins as 1 only DVD): results are good but I would like to save time, if possible, and to use ImgBurn that I prefer. I would ask if you suggest me to use ImgBurn with 3 instances simultaneously opened, and eventually the best and affidable way to do it (create 3 copies of ISO image on 3 different HDD? or only one and put it on SSD), without stress too much the PC and HDD drives. Thanks for your answer

No screen shot was apparently attached, but I don't think I need one at this point. Trying creating a new image in Build mode in ImgBurn, importing the BDMV folder and the CERTIFICATE folder if it exists. Basically, drag and drop all folders your encoder created. Create this image and burn it to a BD-RE for testing. See if it plays alright when ImgBurn makes the image. Check you get audio in the movie, too. If it still doesn't play right or there's no audio, the fault is most likely in the encoder. You could also try mounting the image ImgBurn creates and see if it plays in a software player. If it plays in a software player as a mounted virtual drive but doesn't when you play the disc from your BD drive, your drive is probably at fault. You'll know the image is good and the authoring software isn't the culprit. So, the only remaining suspect is the drive.

Corruptions I understand, but causing a detection of non-existing tracks is new to me I remember, but I don't have to, since the data on the CD is still readable and I copied most of it to my harddrive and opened some files, which worked fine. It's just some files that I burned on a CD to clear some HD space back then. AFAIK, a single-session data CD with more than one track means that the first track contains data, and the other tracks are redbook audio, and I don't think that's the case here. Daemon Tools can indeed create disc images, in several formats. I've tried using the ISO format, but it failed, and the error message said it's because it's a multisession disc, even though Daemon Tools itself detected only a single session! So, I tried creating MDX and MDF+MDS images and they both worked, and I was able to mount them with Daemon Tools just fine. And this is despite the fact that Daemon Tools also detected four tracks. I then tried to create an image from the mounted image using ImgBurn, but it never got past the analyzing tracks process so I closed it...

Hi, I've tried to create an image of a CD that was burned more than 18 years ago, and ImgBurn detected four tracks on the CD for some reason, even though there doesn't seem to be a reason for this CD to have more than one data track. Although ImgBurn didn't report any read errors when creating the image, the process took a long time (about half an hour), and DAEMON Tools failed to mount it. Is it possible that ImgBurn detected four tracks on a single-track data CD? Is there a way to see what's in each track? Thanks

When you just copy the MP4 to a BD, if your Blu-Ray player supports playing MP4 files, it will play it. ImgBurn will make an auto playing Blu-Ray from a BDMV and CERTIFICATE combination IF they're both compliant. IF they're authored correctly to auto start, ImgBurn will create a BD that will automatically play in a Blu-Ray player. Which is why it's best to have authoring software that doesn't create the ISO itself. To let ImgBurn create its own ISO. Most likely, this muxing software isn't creating compliant content. Either it doesn't play or it doesn't create proper ISO's for auto play. Having never used it, I can't say. If I were going to get such software, I'd get VSO's ConvertXToHD, since I've used ConvertXToDVD for years to create DVD's from video containers. I think it has a 7 day free unlimited trial. Although the output may be watermarked. Couldn't say.