imgburn will not work with windows 8

[squelch]

hi, just had a new laptop and installed imgburn onto it (running windows 8) and every time I go to burn an image it gets stuck on writing layer 0 on 0% because the writing speed goes up and then comes back down to 0 and just sits there. I've updated imgburn, done all updates on windows 8 and its definatly not my ihas drive as I tried burning an image on a friends windows 7 comp and it worked perfectly.

 

at a loose end now, any help at all would be much appreciated.

 

thanks

[LIGHTNING UK!]

It works fine on Windows 8.

 

How is the drive connected to the PC?

[squelch]

sata + usb cable and then separate power source to mains.

 

don't understand its like it starts to burn goes up to 4x speed and then drops back down to 0 and just sits there.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

There must be some issue with sending the commands on your machine. I assume you've tried other ports and cables?

 

Do you have an eSATA port on your laptop?

[squelch]

ye well what I did I bought new cables as the old ones were abit worn but didn't change anything :S

 

no don't think it has got an esata port, I will give it another go tonight when I get back from work and try re-installing everything again but its just weird how it worked with windows 7 but not my new laptop which is on windows 8 (which isn't as good as windows 7 imo)

[LIGHTNING UK!]

It'll be a hardware issue or something with the drivers. Is it a special usb -> sata adapter you're using or just some generic thing?

 

I'm not a fan of Windows 8 either and will be sticking with Windows 7 for as long as possible (or until they bring out another 'desktop' OS with the start menu back in place properly).