Shinji Elric Posted July 21, 2009 Posted July 21, 2009 I just upgraded my computer to Windows Vista Home Premium. Both my hard drives is getting full of Music, Videos, Games you name it. Well I'm trying to burn em all to DVDs and DVD-DL. Nero always says Operation failed and ImgBurrn hangs at the lead in part. It doesent lock yp my system just stays there and the timer on the program still goes. I just updated my firmware on my burner from KY04 ot KY06. I'm using a Sony DVD RW DRU-800A. It burned fine before in the past but now its being stubborn. Any ideas?
Shinji Elric Posted July 21, 2009 Author Posted July 21, 2009 (edited) Heres the log I have the program running under compatibility mode Windows XP SP2. I 17:02:23 ImgBurn Version 2.4.4.0 started! I 17:02:23 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 17:02:23 Total Physical Memory: 2,096,064 KB - Available: 1,505,716 KB I 17:02:23 Initialising SPTI... I 17:02:23 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 17:02:23 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD Edited July 21, 2009 by Shinji Elric
Cynthia Posted July 21, 2009 Posted July 21, 2009 Hi and welcome to the forum, Shinji Elric! Does it work with single layer media? I 17:04:12 Destination Device: [3:1:0] SONY DVD RW DRU-800A KY06 (F:) (Fibre) Fibre sounds odd. Checked in the BIOS if there is something like IDE to set it to.
Shinji Elric Posted July 21, 2009 Author Posted July 21, 2009 My burner is IDE but I have a IDE to SATA adapter on it.
Shinji Elric Posted July 21, 2009 Author Posted July 21, 2009 Yes it also hangs on SL disks. Heres the log for it. I 18:02:55 ImgBurn Version 2.4.4.0 started! I 18:02:55 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (6.0, Build 6000) I 18:02:55 Total Physical Memory: 2,096,064 KB - Available: 1,403,856 KB I 18:02:55 Initialising SPTI... I 18:02:55 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 18:02:56 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD
mmalves Posted July 21, 2009 Posted July 21, 2009 Does your motherboard have an IDE port? Your adapter seems to be messing things up.
Shinji Elric Posted July 21, 2009 Author Posted July 21, 2009 Ya it has an IDE port. I thought it was causing the problem so I installed the adapter.
Shinji Elric Posted July 21, 2009 Author Posted July 21, 2009 Ill plug in the IDE ribbon and see what happens. Ill get back to you. And thanks for the help so far.
mmalves Posted July 21, 2009 Posted July 21, 2009 Try a lens cleaning disc on that drive. Also try with Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden blanks to rule out media as the cause of that problem.
Shinji Elric Posted July 21, 2009 Author Posted July 21, 2009 I don't have a lens cleaner disk. Is there another way of cleaning it?
Shinji Elric Posted July 25, 2009 Author Posted July 25, 2009 Ok I bought a DVD Drive cleaner. Its not playing on my burner. On my second DVD ROM drive it played fine and worked but my burner froze the program....
Cynthia Posted July 25, 2009 Posted July 25, 2009 Sounds as it's time to send the burner to a final journey and get a new one. This model was released 2005 and they do fall a part after some time - at least mine ones have a bad habit of doing that.
Shinji Elric Posted July 25, 2009 Author Posted July 25, 2009 I was afraid about that. Well I was at walmart today and I saw a HP burner for under 50. Ill prolly get that.
Cynthia Posted July 25, 2009 Posted July 25, 2009 HPs are normally rebadged ones and those are not my cup of tea - but the taste is different.
Shinji Elric Posted July 25, 2009 Author Posted July 25, 2009 What would you recommend for some one on a budget?
mmalves Posted July 26, 2009 Posted July 26, 2009 Get a Pioneer DVR-215/216/217. You can buy them online for cheap prices.
Cynthia Posted July 26, 2009 Posted July 26, 2009 If it was the HP DVD 1140i you was looking at - that one is a rebadged Lite-On iHAP422. http://club.cdfreaks.com/f44/crossflash-hp-1140i-278047/ The ones I could find at Walmart in this list http://www.walmart.com/browse/Computers/Ac...atNavId=1021822 None of those DVD burners is in my taste. I would go for a Pioneer 116/216 or 117/217 or an Optiarc either the 720* serie or the latest serie 724* (not sure if the later one is with IDE connectors - might only be for SATA). The Optiarc 722* serie is rebadged Lite-Ons and I don't like Lite-Ons. But that's my opinion - I'm sure there are others with other experiences about what a good burner model should be.
Dagmar Posted July 27, 2009 Posted July 27, 2009 I too have the same problem as OP. Whenever I try to burn an ISO to disc, the program hangs at "Writing LeadIn." Afterward, I call for an abort, but the program still hangs. Finally, I end up closing ImgBurn through Task Manager and while the program brute closes, the DVD drive's light (drive looks like it's reading data) is forever on until I reset my computer. The funny thing is though -after I reboot I'm able to burn the ISO into a disc. I can't figure out what is wrong. I hate to think that I have to do the above procedure just to burn an ISO into a disc. Oh yah, it was also the same way when I burned ISO to disc when I was on XP. Now it's the same deal on Windows 7.
mmalves Posted July 28, 2009 Posted July 28, 2009 And now that you've hijacked his thread, would you mind telling us how your burner is connected? Latest driver for the controller? The OP's problem was an inappropriate adapter that was tampering with the communication.
Dagmar Posted July 30, 2009 Posted July 30, 2009 (edited) And now that you've hijacked his thread, would you mind telling us how your burner is connected? Latest driver for the controller? The OP's problem was an inappropriate adapter that was tampering with the communication. I have a SATA connected drive. The controller would be on the motherboard, I assume? If so, no, I don't have those drivers up to date -Gigabyte has not, to this day, upgraded them to 64bit. My burner's firmware is up to date, however. Log if it helps any: (I don't have the log of when it was hanging @ "I 13:35:24 Writing LeadIn...", but I'm pretty sure it's all the same with the success log minus the parts after Writing LeadIn.) I 13:35:08 ImgBurn Version 2.5.0.0 started! I 13:35:08 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7100) I 13:35:08 Total Physical Memory: 4,192,760 KB - Available: 3,059,096 KB I 13:35:08 Initialising SPTI... I 13:35:08 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 13:35:09 Found 1 DVD Edited July 30, 2009 by Dagmar
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