Can only burn one dvd upon opening imgburn

[spaceace]

Greetings. I've been using imgburn for several years with great success. Recently however, imgburn will only burn one disc upon opening. Second disc will not burn. The time starts ticking but no burn occurs. I have to close and re open imgburn each time I want to burn another disc. Any ideas? I've un installed and re installed to no avail.

 

Thanks!

Edited September 7, 2008 by spaceace

[mmalves]

Can you post the log of the burn session where that happens? You can find the log at Help menu -> ImgBurn Logs.

[spaceace]

Can you post the log of the burn session where that happens? You can find the log at Help menu -> ImgBurn Logs.

 

You'll see disc one (nims island) burned fine. disc two (turistas) hangs. It won't get past burn proof enabled and I have to abort.

 

I 14:11:05 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started!

I 14:11:05 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3)

I 14:11:05 Total Physical Memory: 3,668,448 KB - Available: 2,923,040 KB

W 14:11:05 AnyDVD can interfere with ImgBurn's ability to verify accurately, please ensure it's disabled!

I 14:11:05 Initialising SPTI...

I 14:11:05 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 14:11:06 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD

Edited September 7, 2008 by spaceace

[LIGHTNING UK!]

What does it say in the statusbar at this point?

[spaceace]

Locking Volume For Exclusive Access...

[mmalves]

Have a look at this post as it may be relevant to your problem

[spaceace]

Yes, but I don't get an error saying; "'Unable to lock volume for exclusive access". It just hangs while Locking Volume For Exclusive Access...

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Not erroring out just means something in your system really isn't playing nicely and I expect the OS is having to wait for an answer - which it never gets.

 

If the OS never gets an answer, ImgBurn never gets an answer and the OS remains in control - basically that means ImgBurn is frozen at this point.

 

You can use the stuff in the FAQ to pin point where the locking issue is coming from (see which app is using the drive) and hopefully then you'll be able to fix it.

 

If it stays being a problem you'll probably have no choice but to tell ImgBurn not to attempt to get exclusive usage of the drive at all.

 

Please note that this is a workaround (NOT recommended) and not an actual fix.

To fix it you need to find out why the OS is getting stuck trying to give ImgBurn exclusive access to the drive and correct it by updating/removing the problem causing software/driver.

[spaceace]

Thanks! Looks like I've got some work to do. I'll report back.

[spaceace]

Ok, I've found 31 .exe's . Now what?

 

In the mean time, unchecking the "Lock Volume - Exclusive Access" works.

Edited September 10, 2008 by spaceace

[LIGHTNING UK!]

31 exe's that say they have a 'handle' open to the drive?!

[spaceace]

Yes. Used Process Explorer "Find Handle or DLL". 31 were shown in the find window.

Edited September 10, 2008 by spaceace

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Care to post up a screenshot?

 

No wonder it's having trouble if 31 apps think they're using the drive.

 

Maybe it was just the search term you used - or you have a lot of optical drives?

[spaceace]

Only one optical drive. I'll post the screen shot when I return.

[spaceace]

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr321/s...et/Untitled.jpg

Edited September 11, 2008 by spaceace

[LIGHTNING UK!]

ok so none of those search results are actually anything valid.

 

Search for 'cdrom'.

[spaceace]

nothing comes up when searching cdrom

[LOCOENG]

nothing comes up when searching cdrom

 

Then nothing is accessing your drive.

[spaceace]

ok, but if E: is my cd drive, why do I have all the exe's? And if nothing is accessing the drive, why can't imgburn?

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Because the 'E:' you're searching for is matched to '...SERVICE:34e' etc.

 

I have no idea why the API command isn't working, you'd have to dig much deeper to get an answer to that.

 

Maybe you have some dodgy filter drivers installed or something.

 

Check them out in the Tools menu.