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So, it is a data disc, not a music CD. It's odd they'd make it a BIN file. But, you can't help their F up. First thing I'd try, since it's not a music CD, is not to create a CUE file on your own as I originally suggested. Create an MDS File instead under Tools. MDS supports BIN. Then, try loading the MDS file in Write mode. Use a rewritable disc in case it doesn't work. That way, you haven't wasted a disc you can't use. If that doesn't work, then, you could try installing virtual drive software like Virtual CloneDrive. Try mounting the MDS file as a virtual drive and see if you can access the contents from the virtual drive. Then just copy the contents. Can you provide a link to the actual BIN file you downloaded from that page? The page you forwarded needs to know a string from your router brand name to download the proper firmware file, so the site as given isn't much help to me. With the actual BIN file to examine, maybe I can determine something or at least put the contents of the BIN or a converted BIN file to another format for you on my OneDrive account.

Yeah, I was going to ask why you're burning it to a DVD? If it's a data DVD, then I can see choosing to go that way because DVD burns faster and your PC won't care. If it's a music CD, and since you've got a BIN file, that would be most likely, but you'd need a CUE file to go with it. If it's a music CD, you'd need to burn it to a CD-R in order for a player to recognize it. You could try the Create CUE File option under Tools and see if that creates a burnable file set with a CUE file. However, you really shouldn't have to do that and I can't really see it helping in this case. Most likely, the BIN file contents are probably corrupt or are not a BIN file to begin with. The file got renamed as a BIN, maybe. How big is this BIN file?

I was getting an error when trying to do so... I think that it was happening because the disk was a Blue-ray, i will try again and post the error here. I use option "Create image file from files/folders"

The MDS is made when certain conditions are true. They must have been true for the 1st discs and not for the 2nd. If you post the log, I'll be able to tell you more. If all you wanted were images of the discs, why not use the 'Create Image File From Disc' (A.K.A. 'Read' mode) option? Or perhaps that is what you used as there's no 'Convert File/Folder to ISO file' option.

Ok but how can I save it as a project to open in the GUI at a later date? I could be a total idiot but it seems the command line only lets you burn right then and there? Do I have to do the /BUILDOUTPUTMODE <IMAGEFILE> and then load the imagefile into the gui when I want to burn? I was hoping to not have to create an entire image since the files will still be on the NAS (with backups) as that would just take up double the space. Of course the /DESt would be needed also so i could name the files but I should be able to just use %date in the BAT file to create the name based on the date, which should work at least 99.9% of the time for what I need. I just really do not want to have at least 300 extra image files on the NAS + double that due to the backup of them also.

Hi, I have a list of files with full paths in a txt file that I need to burn to a disc, can I do this with imgburn? I know I can copy each line and paste into the source box in build but it will not let me paste multiple items at a time. This is something I will have to do on a regular basis so it would be a lot less time consuming if I could auto find the files, save to txt file and then just copy/paste from that txt file directly into imgburn build mode. I did read something in the last few hours of trying to figure out if I could do this that there may be a way using a command line option? If so, could I use the command line to grab the files/locations from the txt file (or lst file, I remember reading something about .lst ) and then save the project so I could open in the gui or would everything need to be done command line style? If I could save the project then I could just use a bat file to create the project each time I need it, save it, then just load it in the gui when it has to be burnt. I know, I want a lot Thank You Mike

I tried adding a .FLAC created by Windows Media Player, but ImgBurn just crashes trying to load it. The crash dialog opens and asks if I want to send the bug/continue the application. If you continue the application, of course, ImgBurn just continues. I sent a bug report of the first FLAC. However, I tried a 2nd FLAC file and got a little further. I, at least, didn't get a crash and got a listed error. E 21:44:48 ConnectFilters(Source, Sample Grabber) Failed! E 21:44:48 Reason: No combination of intermediate filters could be found to make the connection. E 21:44:48 Hint: You may need to install some additional DirectShow filters in order to support files of this type or the file might be corrupt. Does ImgBurn support FLAC for CUE files? I converted the FLAC that was crashing ImgBurn to MP3 and it imported file. I used the same conversion software, Freemake Audio Converter, to save the file as another FLAC. ImgBurn didn't crash on that new FLAC, but returned the same errors as copied and pasted above. Would installing these DirectShow filters help in this case? How would I do that? Thanks!

By testing, I mean take a blank of every media you intend to burn with the drive, create an image to test it with, preferably an image that nearly fills the disc, and burn those images to the blanks. Just test if they finish Writes without error and finish Verfiies without error. Writes aren't as important as Verifies as far as I'm concerned. Writes will often times pass but will fail on Verifies of those Writes. You can, of course, perform disc scans, attempt to read the data back to image files, test playing movie discs on a stand alone player, etc. if you want to. I don't generally go that far. I just mostly care that they pass Verifies. And, to an extent, Writes, because one must be done before the other can be, of course. Be aware that M-Discs cost about 5 times as much as standard media. However, it can be worth the cost if you're really concerned about obtaining archival quality media. For instance, a DVD+R can cost between 50 cents and a dollar. An M-Disc DVD+R will set you back about $5. So, if you're willing to invest in them, by all means, get the M-Disc drive. You may find yourself using them more than I do. I'm just mostly concerned about the decreasing quality of my 2209 drives I've gotten. The first one still works, save for the Eject button issue. The 2nd one I still use for reading discs and for writing BD-RE DL and BD-RE SL as giant floppies. The 3rd one I had died after 7 months when it stopped writing BD-R properly. The 4th one was borked right out the box, failing on BD-R. Maybe I just got flukes, but I worry about possible quality decline of Pioneer drives.

How do I get this window to appears as shown in the guide? When trying to create a DL disk, I click on the calculator button as descibed but i never get the layer break choice window. The disc then seems to burn halfway before failing iwth a 'check condition' error. So many coasters, so few discs ...

It can be done over multiple sittings. A common use of IsoPuzzle is to read as much as possible from a single bad disc using multiple different drives. The rip/dump status is stored in an .flg file which allows recovery over multiple sittings. It cannot use existing images since those are not accompanied by any information about what portions were and weren't read successfully from the DVD. 2048-byte sectors read from DVDs don't have checksums, so sector-level error-checking of existing images isn't possible. The A/V streams on the discs may include optional checksums, but that is far beyond the scope of what IsoPuzzle considers. How were the images created in the first place? Are they the full size of the disc, or are they smaller due to aborting the reading process? This info would have an impact on how practical it would be to merge the existing images successfully in the absence of checksums. As far as I remember, you only get the image file from IsoPuzle, no MDS. Is having the discs professionally resurfaced out of the question? These images were created with DVD Decrypter. They are full sized discs that went through the full reading process. Too bad no program out there is capable to doing something like xdelta, but to replace specific sectors from a different ISO's. I would really appreciate if someone knowledgeable in this field can create something that can do what I've suggested. Not that ISOPuzzle is bad, but it seems to have it's limitations with requiring it to rip with another program's decryption method active in the background. If a program can work with the already existing ISOs and we can tell it to replace what data sectors with another disc. I'm not sure how complex this might be to do, but since the structure and data organization is more or less identical from the same source, I'm thinking it's doable. Maybe even implementing a log to record every sector and their CRC which can be then referenced within the ISOs would be interesting. I do not know much about professional resurfacing, but I do not want to risk making these discs worse than they already are. I would like to preserve them and keep a perfect digital copy for archival purposes. Some of the disc I have are almost impossible to find, even if they aren't worth anything really. But whether they are of some worth or not, they are precious to me because they were gifts that I should have taken care of as a kid. I just wish that Lightning UK and some other developers would take a look at this. Really wish this suggestion can be actualized. I know I'm going to get scolded by Lightning UK again for talking about DVD Decrypter here again because he pointed it out that this forum isn't the place for this. But I really hope one day a piece of software can do all this.

There isn't really any swapping out of sectors, just filling in of blanks. IsoPuzzle keeps track of which sectors have and haven't been read successfully as you use it. You would first use the program to create a new image from one of the bad discs. You would then switch to the second disc and the program would try to read the previously unreadable sectors again. If the process is successful, you should have a single good image as the output. Can this only be done in one sitting? If I do, that would mean I must have two or more of the same discs with me already sitting at home. Why I'm asking this is because I already have two ISOs from two different DVDs of the same source, and I'm not sure if I still have multiple copies of the same disc with me at the moment. Can the program cross analyze with the ISOs I've already got, or does it have to be a completely new rip with ISOPuzzle? Also, does it retain any of the extra data like MDS Files do on the side? Such as laybreak and etc.

There isn't really any swapping out of sectors, just filling in of blanks. IsoPuzzle keeps track of which sectors have and haven't been read successfully as you use it. You would first use the program to create a new image from one of the bad discs. You would then switch to the second disc and the program would try to read the previously unreadable sectors again. If the process is successful, you should have a single good image as the output.

Well, now I don't know if my next tower model PC will be a Dell anymore. Dell has removed the full height 5 inch bays from the latest iteration of their XPS tower model PC's. It comes with 1 half height bay for a half height DVD burner. As far as I know, they don't even make half height BD burners and that's what I need. Even if they did make them, slim model external BD drives are junk, so I can't see internal half height drives being of any quality. So, I'd have to get an enclosure and buy full height drives for external use only. Plus, I preferred having 2 5 inch height bays in the Dell towers I've had before. I liked having 2 internal drives because I had some old DVD-9 images that were split across 2 DVD-5's. With only one drive, internal or external, I'd have to copy the parts from each disc to HD and create a new .DVD that way. I don't think I have too many more of these split images left anyway, but it was easier having 2 internal drives for this process. And I need BD drives. I've moved to BD for a lot of my dual layer DVD-9 needs. No more layer changes to worry about failing. So to Dell!

IsoPuzzle may be helpful for merging two DVDs into one image if the source discs are identical. ImgBurn can tell you the sector count for a minimal indicator of if the discs are likely to be the same, but IsoBuster (free version) would be more informative. IsoBuster shows the volume timestamp info, sector numbers where files start, and other details. If the DVDs are copy-protected a product such as AnyDVD will be needed as well. IsoPuzzle doesn't do decryption, so something like AnyDVD is needed to ensure that the data is decrypted before IsoPuzzle sees it. Thank you for replying. I haven't checked IsoPuzzle yet, but will when I have time. But can it swap out bad sectors from an ISO that I found when cloning the first disc with a good sector at that same location with the ISO of a second disc? Was that what you meant by "merging two DVDs into one image if the source discs are identical". What I would like is to create a perfect ISO from two or more scratched discs by replacing with ones that I know are good. Some DVDs also have fake sectors, so if I compare the log of two or more copies and determine which ones are fakes, I can ultimately figure out which ones are real sectors that turned bad from dirt or scratches and have them replaced.

I've been thinking about these ideas for a while, but not sure if these functions already exist or not. But most of these were geared towards DVD Decrypter, which was sadly discontinued. But here is what I have anyways. They might be possible or impossible to currently do, or never, but who knows. Here they are anyways: 1. More on the possible side of things is this. Let's say I have two copies of the same disc. If I know which sector is bad or not by comparing sector errors from one disc's log with another's, the one that shows up but doesn't in another's must mean it's a bad sector. Knowing that, maybe I can tell ImgBurn (DVD Decrypter...) to read it "x" amount of times for that particular sector. This is different than setting the number of retries under settings because originally, it will set the same number of retries for all the errors encountered (fake sectors or not). I want is to set a number of retries for a few or many particular sectors I know are not fake sectors, but ones that are bad because of dirt or scratches on a disc. This can significantly save a lot of time. 2. This might be impossible to do at the moment, but I'll share anyways. Let's say I have two discs that both have bad sectors. If I know which sectors are bad (but not fake) on one disc, but read perfectly on another genuine copy, maybe we can swap the bad ones with the ones that read correctly from the other disc. Then we can make a perfect copy from the two discs that both had bad sectors, but ones that do not have the same ones, otherwise a perfect copy cannot be made from the two. 3. This third one is sort of like the 2nd suggestion, but a little different. Let's say I'm trying to clone a disc, but I want to skip the first 2 million sectors because I know the first 2 million sectors of another disc are perfect. So placeholder sectors are slotted in for the skip ones (not sure if the term dummy sectors is correct here for the placeholder term I'm using) to save time. A cross comparison between the two BINS (or ISO...) are then combined with the bad sectors taken out to create a perfect copy from the two discs with different bad sectors than the other. Is there a program out there that actually does the 2nd and 3rd suggestion? If not, can a new development project be built on top of what DVD Decrypter has already done as a whole separate project? There wouldn't be any affiliations to it as it is just swapping out bad sectors from one ISO with another ISO of another copy of the same source disc. Since this program doesn't do anything illegal as to decrypt or rip anything, it seems to be perfectly legal.

This may not actually be considered a bug. I can't replicate it with any frequency. It seems to be random, but it does happen randomly about 1 in 10 times. When I'm in Advanced Input mode, I drag and drop folders/files, create folders I want, etc. I X close the Advanced Input window, but instead of closing and ImgBurn doing its calculations on the input, the window sometimes goes minimized to the tray. I just open the minimized window, X close it again, and everything proceeds as it should, with the window closing and the calculations performed. It's actually been doing this for years and I just lived with it since I never could replicate it except randomly. But, after I got it just a moment ago, I thought I'd post it.

I was trying to create a clone of the CD, which had a fair number of light scratches, but nothing deep. I'd say condition was 70-75% compared to a brand new pristine copy. Everything seemed to be fine until near the end when a message said something about "Illegal Mode". Just some extra information, I always create a WAV for the entire CD with it's Cue Sheet using EAC, and then create a clone (bin + cue) with ImgBurn. EAC said the disc had Sync Error and Read Error during around 20-30% of the rip session. I never finished the EAC ripping session because it took far too long with it's error correction (~38%, 25+ minutes into ripping). ImgBurn stated there were 0 Read Errors after competition, which took ~9.5 minutes. Results vary quite broadly. EAC says it detected Reading Error, but ImgBurn says there weren't any in the Read Error area, but the log says something about Illegal Mode and failed to read sectors near the end. Here's the log: I 15:00:05 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 15:00:05 Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7601 : Service Pack 1) I 15:00:05 Total Physical Memory: 16,717,504 KiB - Available: 13,346,688 KiB I 15:00:05 Initialising SPTI... I 15:00:05 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 15:00:06 -> Drive 1 - Info: ASUS DRW-24B1ST j 1.01 (D:) (SATA) I 15:00:06 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM! I 15:00:18 Operation Started! I 15:00:18 Source Device: [0:0:0] ASUS DRW-24B1ST j 1.01 (D:) (SATA) I 15:00:18 Source Media Type: CD-ROM I 15:00:18 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 10x, 16x, 24x, 32x, 40x, 48x I 15:00:18 Source Media Supported Write Speeds: 48x I 15:00:18 Source Media Sectors: 332,850 I 15:00:18 Source Media Size: 782,863,200 bytes I 15:00:18 Source Media Volume Identifier: I 15:00:18 Source Media Application Identifier: I 15:00:18 Source Media Implementation Identifier: I 15:00:18 Source Media File System(s): I 15:00:18 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / 8x I 15:00:18 Destination File: I 15:00:18 Destination Free Space: 945,774,055,424 Bytes (923,607,476.00 KiB) (901,960.43 MiB) (880.82 GiB) I 15:00:18 Destination File System: NTFS I 15:00:18 File Splitting: Auto I 15:00:51 Read Speed - Effective: 10x I 15:00:51 Reading Session 1 of 2... (11 Tracks, LBA: 0 - 187360) I 15:00:51 Reading Track 1 of 11... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 0 - 19524, ISRC: NLA320581340) I 15:01:56 Reading Track 2 of 11... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 19525 - 36345, ISRC: NLA320581339) I 15:02:46 Reading Track 3 of 11... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 36346 - 55764, ISRC: NLA320581256) I 15:03:39 Reading Track 4 of 11... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 55765 - 69759, ISRC: NLA320581337) I 15:04:15 Reading Track 5 of 11... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 69760 - 86208, ISRC: NLA320581344) I 15:04:55 Reading Track 6 of 11... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 86209 - 104071, ISRC: NLA320581338) I 15:05:36 Reading Track 7 of 11... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 104072 - 120174, ISRC: NLA320581342) I 15:06:34 Reading Track 8 of 11... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 120175 - 133575, ISRC: NLA320581346) I 15:07:03 Reading Track 9 of 11... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 133576 - 149942, ISRC: NLA320581341) I 15:07:36 Reading Track 10 of 11... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 149943 - 168080, ISRC: NLA320581345) I 15:08:12 Reading Track 11 of 11... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 168081 - 187360, ISRC: NLA320581343) I 15:08:48 Reading Session 2 of 2... (2 Tracks, LBA: 198761 - 332849) I 15:08:48 Reading Track 1 of 2... (MODE1/2352, LBA: 198761 - 332818) W 15:09:37 Failed to Read Sectors 332654 - 332680 - Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track W 15:09:45 Failed to Read Sectors 332774 - 332800 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error I 15:09:50 Reading Track 2 of 2... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 332819 - 332849) I 15:09:54 Exporting Graph Data... I 15:09:54 Graph Data File: I 15:09:54 Export Successfully Completed! I 15:09:54 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:09:35 I 15:09:54 Average Read Rate: 1,329 KiB/s (6.7x) - Maximum Read Rate: 7,834 KiB/s (39.6x)

Hi, First time to post here. I have been using IMGBURN to burn *.ISO to DVD or CD media. I also have used it to create an ISO file from several files on my PC. Is there a way to do this with UDF? I see some files that are *.UDF and I want to burn them to a DVD media. Is this the same as *.ISO where IMGBURN can directly burn to a DVD media? Appreciate any guidance on how to burn .UDF to DVD. Thanks shantarro

Can anyone recommend some kind of free software that converts audio files, like MP3, to video container files, like AVI and the like? I'd prefer something where I can set a still image for the video instead of a black screen. But something like an equalizer output that just shows random graphics in synch with the video would also do. I'm looking for something like Freemake Video Converter, but that "free" software adds black bars to the video and a watermark at the start and stop of the video. So, it's crippled, instead of "free." I really can't use any kind of online converter because I'm often converting entire CD's, which can be over an hour. Thanks! Looks like I found something that works. Something called Any Video Converter. I had it already, but didn't think, given its name, it would do what I wanted. But, on a whim, I tried it for this purpose and it works. Even lets me add a still image to the video, which is what I usually do with spoken word CD's. I rip all the tracks to 1 giant audio file, convert to a video file using a scan of the CD cover art for the still image, and then put all the CD's for, say, a book on CD, as a DVD Video. Allows me to replace 5 CD's, usually, with 1 DVD. Music CD's aren't prime candidates for this, but books on CD or Big Finish Doctor Who audio dramas fit this category very well. And, I can only play these books on DVD on a DVD player, so it doesn't do any good for playing in a car audio CD player. Well, Any Video Converter works but it doesn't do it "right." You cannot navigate to random points in the container file. It plays but only from beginning to end. If you try to jump around in the video, it just sits there doing nothing. However, I just need these containers to import into ConvertXToDVD. They do and preview so it should seem that they would work, but I won't know for sure until I come across a need to create one.

Thanx for the swift response and the giggle inducing last line in your post. Not sure what I'm doing actually. I converted 12 mp3 files to cue files and then hit the write picto button in write mode to create a multi song cd for my car. And so far instead of getting 12 songs on the disc I get 1 song

Hi there. I got an error while cloning a DVD ISO . The DVD does have a moderate amount of scratches on it, so that might be the problem. Nevertheless, here is an image of the error message. http://oi67.tinypic.com/mv3wv5.jpg I have one question regarding sector errors. If DVD Decrypt comes across a sector that might be bad, it will "retry" to read it many times until it succeeds, correct? In this case, It retried 24-25 times before showing an error message. I pressed retry again and it tried to reread the same sector about ~20 more times before the same message popped up again. What I'm getting at is, if the "Read Errors: 0 (x Retries)" still remains at zero (and where x is a really large integer), it doesn't matter how many retires it takes to still make it a flawless ISO clone when the cloning process is complete, is that right? In this cloning session, the program did not try to jump over the bad sector, but kept retrying until it prompted an error message twice in a row. Is there an option to allow it to jump over that one bad sector encounter? Am I also able to control how many sectors are read a time and how many sectors the program is allowed to jump when it does come across a bad sector? Preferably, I would like both read and jump bad sector to be 1 to create the best ISO if I know the DVD is pretty much pristine and known to be error-free. In the event that there was just one bad sector on a DVD, I wouldn't want the DVD Decrypt to jump like 16, 32, or 64 sectors. I'm a freak perfectionist, I know... I want to backup perfect copies of my DVDs, but unfortunately, some of the super old ones can't be helped as to having a few scratches here and there. When I close DVD Decrypt, many error messages popup. I found a fix, but I'm not sure if it's proper or recommended. What I did was go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\DVD Decrypter\" -> Right click on DVDDecrypter.exe -> Select "Properties" -> "Compatibility" tab -> Under "Privlege Level", select (tick) "run this program as an administrator" -> Click "Apply". Does this method approve?

I know that HP has given up on LightScribe and that the software hasn't really been updated since like 2014 (if not before that), but I wonder if it was possible to create an updated version of ImgBurn that would allow one to make use of LightScribe software to create their own templates? I did have Nero 2015, but my CD got scratched to all hell. Aside from buying the latest version of Nero (or Roxio), I was hoping to just see a decent option for burning images like HP used to allow or like Nero allowed me to create. I've seen the "Free Lightscribe" burning software....and it's seriously limited. Considering how expensive the "Pro" version is, I'd rather spend an extra $10 and get Nero...I know I'm whining, but it's the principle of it. Anyhow, if anyone has any great cheap options, let me know. And if anyone would like to take on the option of incorporating LightScribe burning software into ImgBurn, I'd be grateful.

Thanks for your replies, LIGHTNING UK! and ianymaty, @LIGHTNING UK! There is no efisys.bin and no other *.bin files. I really don't understand how these bootable (recovery) media work and can't seem to find any information other than on full Windows installation media. (And this flash drive works -- I've tested it). Indeed, the very flexible (blegh) options to create recovery media were a USB stick only (even a USB HDD isn't an option!) I don't know where else to look, I see a bootmgr.efi, bootx64.efi and a boot.sdi files, but no idea what they mean. @ianymaty A file back-up is not what I'm interested in, as I'd like to be able to reconstruct the bootable flash drive when disaster strikes. Although I guess I could always try to make a bootable disk from the files at a later stage, but that means I just postpone the research. Anyway, this is not a big deal as I will still make an image of the system with either CloneZilla or EaseUS PC Backup and not be too dependent on the flash drive. I guess that being a noob I'm just a bit too curious for my own good ;-) Cheers, Sando

Hi all, I don't know whether I'm at the right place, but I wonder whether someone could clarify the mysteries surrounding the (USB) recovery media for Windows 10. I've read up on creating bootable images for Windows 8 and Windows 10 systems and the steps don't seem too difficult. However the recovery media I've created for my new Acer Windows 10 notebook seem to contain different files from the fresh installation media. (I've successfully prepared a USB flash drive to restore my system. What I'm trying to do here is create a backup of that flash drive, as I don't want to rely on something as fragile as a USB flas drive only). So, in build mode, most descriptions of this process with ImgBurn show how on the Advanced > Bootable Disc tab the path to "Boot image" is something that leads to a file called etfsboot.com. There is no such file on the recovery media. I've got three folders in the root boot, efi and sources. In sources there is a "boot.wim" and in root there is a file BCD. Are those any use? What should I fill in at "Boot image"? (On a different note, I saw a procedure somewhere that first an image is extracted with the "Extract Boot Image" option on the Bootable Disc tab, and that Image was subsequently fed back into the Boot Image field after that. Does that make any sense. I've got no idea what's happening there. See the anser on superuser referring to ImgBurn here: https://superuser.com/questions/477569/how-can-i-create-a-bootable-dvd-iso-from-a-usb-drive) Does the lack of a file etfsboot.com have anything to do wit the fact that this is a 64-bit UEFI system? Thanks for your attention. Cheers, Sando

Thank you for following up and helping me out so far. As you know, I got rid of some DVDs I once had, meaning it would be impossible to pinpoint the exact sector that the layer break occurs at. Here's the detail in Read Mode for one of the DVDs I still have: Disc Information: Status: Complete State of Last Session: Complete Erasable: No Sessions: 1 Sectors: 3,219,725 Size: 6,593,996,800 bytes Time: 715:31:50 (MM:SS:FF) Supported Read Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x Current Read Speed: 2.4x - 6x, 6x - 2.4x File System Information: Sectors: 3,219,725 Size: 6,593,996,800 bytes Time: 715:31:50 (MM:SS:FF) TOC Information: Session 1... (LBA: 0) -> Track 01 (Mode 1, LBA: 0 - 3219724) -> LeadOut (LBA: 3219725) Track Information: Session 1... -> Track 01 (LTSA: 0, LTS: 3219725, LRA: 0) Physical Format Information (Last Recorded - L0): Book Type: DVD-ROM Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120 mm Maximum Read Rate: 10.08 Mbps Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Opposite Track Path (OTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 16,346,988 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 1,923,279 Physical Format Information (Last Recorded - L1): Book Type: DVD-ROM Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120 mm Maximum Read Rate: 10.08 Mbps Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Opposite Track Path (OTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 16,346,988 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 1,923,279 Layer Information: Layer 0 Sectors: 1,726,672 (53.63%) Layer 1 Sectors: 1,493,053 (46.37%) Am I looking at the correct places indicate in red? The authentic DVD is OTP style with the layer break at sector 1,726,672? Is what I have on the picture below correct and exactly what I need in order to create a MDS to burn and layer break at the exact same places as the authentic DVD? I would like to know what "Preserve Full Pathnames" does, and if this option will write any information in and saved as part of the MDS file. I would also like to know if "Add To Write Queue When Done" is only meant for burning, and that it plays absolutely no role in the creation of the MDS file, meaning it does not affect the MDS file in any kind of way in terms of written content for when it is created. Another question, I would like to ask if it's possible to open the MDS file and read it, like in text. Also, what's the difference between saving MDS in Ansi and Unicode? Would it not be more beneficial to always save in MDS Unicode in case there are special characters (like characters in different languages)? Or could MDS files saved in Unicode cause problems for other programs that uses it like DAEMON Tools? If I don't intend to use any other program with the MDS file, is it safe to say that I can keep saving as Unicode and still burn without problems? Sorry for troubling you so much with all these questions. Last question. I promise. Can ImgBurn tell me addition information about the DVD? For example, the ISO File System (Volume Label, Creation Date, Publisher, Application) and the UDF File System (Volume Label, UDF Version, Recording Date, # of Directories, #of Files). Cross outs mean the ImgBurn already does that, but cannot be copy and pasted like the box on the right in Read Mode. It would be nice if there was a feature to save the information in Read Mode without having to copy and paste to notepad, but I don't really mind, since this program is already so extraordinarily good.