RockAroundTheClock Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Hi. I've been using ImgBurn to burn CDs & DVDs since I found it in a list of recommended "best of" applications. It has never given me any problems & the discs always worked. However as of late (this last week) it has been failing with any dual-layer operations I've tried to undertake. These have been standard operations of burning games bought on online stores as 7-zip archives to avoid re-downloading the data (i.e. Frontlines: Fuel of War from Direct2Drive). It also includes ISO images made by ImgBurn. However I don't have any burn log errors because the burn stage always indicates a successful burn; it's the "verify" stage that fails on burns. It has failed with an I/O error but there seems to be no log files in ImgBurn's folders; I did not copy the contents of the verify window :-( (which did have an "OK" button in it). Further trying to verify the burnt files with 3rd party utilities also fails. Since the files are 7-zip I tried having 7-zip test for errors & it froze at random points for each of 8 coasters made. A program to calculate hash checks (particularly md5) crashed altogether. But the files on the HDD verify just fine; the data extracted from the 7-zip files works as intended (game runs) & 7-zip says there's no problems with the archive. Md5 checks also worked. For ISO images made by ImgBurn it's a little different. One of the images burned by CDBurnerXP works just fine however all other images had be purely bad; I installed & tried opening one with UltraISO today to find UltraISO reported the image as blank, I tried again thinking I made a mistake & same thing. I then went to see what other tools I have to create ISO images with to find only CDBurnerXP (and it has a limitation I decided I didn't like) so opened the image a 3rd time with UltraISO to get 3 "files" of correct size with weird (wingding font?) characters as the file names... the ISO is supposed to only have 2 file in it. I then tried saving the same ISO image using CDBurnerXP & it seems to have worked; UltraISO sees both files correctly. All this being said... ImgBurn is handling single-layer images & burning DVDs just fine. I've burnt several single-layer DVDs since the problem started happening & all verified just fine. Steps I have taken to try & the correct the error have been limited since I do not know what could have changed to cause this issue. I verified that I was running the latest version of ImgBurn, I set all options under the "Burn" tab of options to default even though the only setting I've changed is to prevent ImgBurn from verifying ever time (since I haven't had a problem before this last week). Only system modifications made: nVidia drivers updated (video only) & Microsoft Update ran (no critical updates installed... 1 optional... update of Security Essentials definitions; only thing I was missing). The operating system is Windows 7 x64 & the HDD space free is 25GB. Please advise as well I can use CDBurnerXP in a pinch ImgBurn is more flexible & graceful with out the couple of limitations in CDBurnerXP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynthia Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 No idea what media + burner you use. Sure that there are no logs in this location? http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=14632 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockAroundTheClock Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 No idea what media + burner you use. Sure that there are no logs in this location? http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=14632 Burner: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182M SB06 (ATA) (LG burner) Media: Same media as always: DL: Verbatim 8x DVD+R DL LightScribe (note... I tried once to burn at 6x speed; still failed on burn) SL: Maxell 16x DVD+-R "Normal" Cover DVDs (note: burnt at maximum speed as chosen by ImgBurn... work fine) Logs: I was checking the "Logs" directory in the program directory & that was empty... the other location had a log for only my last session.. which ended being nothing more then a normal program start & exit because I only checked the version number before posting to re-verify I was using newest version... no attempts to burn or create or read anything were made. Below is posted: ; //****************************************\\ ; ImgBurn Version 2.5.5.0 - Log ; Thursday, 03 February 2011, 19:49:47 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 19:48:24 ImgBurn Version 2.5.5.0 started! I 19:48:24 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7600) I 19:48:24 Total Physical Memory: 4,193,400 KB - Available: 2,453,408 KB I 19:48:24 Initialising SPTI... I 19:48:24 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 19:48:24 -> Drive 1 - Info: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182M SB06 (E:) (ATA) I 19:48:24 -> Drive 2 - Info: 56X CD-ROM 1020 (F:) (ATA) I 19:48:24 Found 1 CD-ROM and 1 DVD±RW/RAM! E 19:48:24 Failed to check for ImgBurn update! (<--- This is normal... updates are firewall blocked & handled manually usually) I 19:49:47 Close Request Acknowledged I 19:49:47 Closing Down... I 19:49:47 Shutting down SPTI... I 19:49:47 ImgBurn closed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Are you sure it is an LG? TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182M SB06 (ATA) (LG burner) TSSTcorp usually are burners found in notebooks. If that is the case and really is a slimeline burner, well then you are SOL because slimlines are crap for burning DL media. Get yourself a proper burner and an external USB 2.0 enclsure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockAroundTheClock Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 Are you sure it is an LG? No, but I tend to buy LG burners. I added it myself but it's unbranded on the front & don't have a box any more. Google says it's Samsung. TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182M SB06 (ATA) (LG burner) TSSTcorp usually are burners found in notebooks. If that is the case and really is a slimeline burner, well then you are SOL because slimlines are crap for burning DL media. Get yourself a proper burner and an external USB 2.0 enclsure. It's not a laptop. It's a normal DVD-+RW burner on IDE1/Master & the CD-ROM is IDE1/Slave. As indicated before ImgBurn has never ahd any problems burning with this burner; the errors have only been occurring the last 7 days (12 days before that they burned the same media at full speed with no errors). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockAroundTheClock Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 As a note... my last test with CDBurnerXP of the same files has verified via CDBurnerXP & 7-zip; so whatever the problem is it's effecting only ImgBurn. I'm hoping to get ImgBurn running 100% again though because it has better image creation support & better UDF support as well as allows longer titles for the discs. (Plus a few other things making it much better then CDBurnerXP._ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 You won't get any real help until you burn+verify a disc and then post the log. ImgBurn has no control over success/failure of a burn, it's all down to your drive/firmware/media combo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockAroundTheClock Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 It has to be a software problem in some way at this point as I know it does work; I've burned many discs in exactly this way & now it doesn't burn but the competing product does work. Also why would the burner's presence cause ISO images written to a directory to fail? That makes no sense. The ISO was confirmed bad by UltraISO; at no point was a DVD even involved & it was bad. I'll make another image & verify that to demonstrate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Please do. And use a decent program like IsoBuster to look inside the ISO - or mount the image in a virtual drive program (like Virtual CloneDrive) and browse it normally with Explorer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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