erasing help

[bakedbard]

New to imgburn trying to write a iso file.

imgburn says it has to format the disc gets to 97% then goes back to 97% and keeps doing this over and over again. Polaroid dvd+rw 1-4x speed 4.7gb discs.

I 16:43:00 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started!

I 16:43:00 Microsoft Windows 8 Professional x64 Edition (6.2, Build 9200)

I 16:43:00 Total Physical Memory: 16,218,640 KiB  -  Available: 14,286,416 KiB

I 16:43:00 Initialising SPTI...

I 16:43:00 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 16:43:00 -> Drive 1 - Info: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS90 IN01-13 (D:) (SATA)

I 16:43:00 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM!

I 16:44:32 Operation Started!

I 16:44:32 Device: [2:0:0] HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS90 IN01 (D:) (SATA)

I 16:44:32 Media Type: DVD+RW (Disc ID: MBIPG101-W04-00)

I 16:44:32 Media Supported Write Speeds: 4x

I 16:44:32 Quick Erase: No

I 16:44:32 Format Properly: Yes

I 16:44:32 Format Size: Preferred

I 16:44:32 Erasing Disc...

 waited till 5:08 

saw that you posted that it should take 15 minutes waited almost 25.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

The drive performs the actual format, not ImgBurn. ImgBurn just asks the drive for progress updates.

 

If it's taking forever and seemingly getting stuck, try with some other / better discs.