BentoLover Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 (edited) Hello. I joined today just to solely ask a question... Before I begin, my machine specs: - Centrino 2 Duo P8600 (2.4GHz / core) - 8GB DDR3 RAM - 320GB 7200rpm HDD (75GB free) - Matash!ta Panasonic UJ232a Blu-ray burner (yes, it's a 9.5mm slim-line drive). - Windows 7 Pro x64 - I bought this lappie without a blu-ray option (at the time it was a US$1k extra). - I bought a UJ232a blu-ray writer a few weeks back for about US$100, along with a 5 pack Sony BD-R 50GB DATA discs (write speeds 1x-2x), not the usual VIDEO variants. ImgBurn shows a disc ID of MEI-T01-001. - The UJ232a is an internal device; I took my lappie apart and placed it where the old DVD writer used to be. - Just incase this is relevant, the UJ232 is capable of WRITING to BD-R DL media at 1x (so ImgBurn shows just 1x at the capable burn speed window). - I have burned CD and DVD discs using this drive in the past using ImgBurn (without a hitch). Although I've PLAYED blu-rays without issue, this would be the first time I am attempting to burn to blu-ray (DATA) media. I've scoured these forums and the closest thing I've come across to burning (video) blu-ray discs is by Lightning UK himself (http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=9512) There, step 4 describes a process which I'm assuming is required to burn blu-ray discs that are usable on the conventional (living-room) blu-ray movie player. Ok. I wish to burn DATA to a BD-R DL disc, and refer to it in the future should I require it (it will act as an irreplacable backup of sorts). So my question is whether I would need to undertake any specific steps to burn blu-ray DATA discs? Like VIDEO blu-ray discs? At the moment, I'm in the BUILD mode and have clicked-and-dragged my desired files to the SOURCE box. I clicked on the OPTIONS tab on the right, and at the bottom clicked on RESET SETTINGS; everything should be at default now. The VERIFY tick-box has been ticked on the left, in case you're wondering. Is this the correct method? It's just that the blank blu-ray media I have here are rather expensive (I bought them in Japan), and would very much prefer all burn processes to finish successfully (heck, anyone would...). My intention is to use blu-ray DATA media for long-term data archiving. I was put off external HDDs after a catastrophic platter failure a few months back, and flash drives don't really go any bigger than 32GB without the prices sky-rocketing... Thanks in advance for the help. Guess I'm being a noob here but better safe than sorry, as they always say... Edited January 11, 2011 by BentoLover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 (edited) There is no specific way to burn a bluray data disc, you can choose it to have iso9660 only, or can use iso9660+joliet+udf, or just udf and you can tweak the restrictions all you want. The only thing you cannot change is the mode, it always has to be in mode1/2048 but other than that, it is just like burning a CD-data or DVD-data disc but with more capacity obviously and yes it is a good idea to verify your burns. Edited January 11, 2011 by Rincewind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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