making a DVD of multiple CD images

[Locksmith Charley]

OK, I'm a bit new with your program and this might be an unusual concept, but here is what I am trying to do.

 

My girlfriend's father has given us a laptop. I am attempting to store all of the recovery CDs on 1 DVD, as well as locally on my desktop computer.

 

I have used IMGBURN to make 7 images of the 7 CDs in the set of recovery disks that came with a sony viao computer.

 

I have also made a text file of the word 2002 CD-key.

 

I have copied the IMGBURN installation file into the same directory so I have a total of 9 files in this directory (just so anybody with the recovery DVD can restore the images to CDs).

 

I loaded IMGBURN and using the "COPY FILES/FOLDERS to DISC" function, I have successfully selected the 9 files

 

When I tell it to write the disk the process ends with "SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED"

 

When I try to use windows explorer to view the image, it will not. When I go to view properties of the DVD it says "Used Space 0 " and "Free Space 0"

 

I have tried (on 3rd attempt) to use all 3 kinds of directories (longer burn) but same result.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks in advance,

Charley

[Locksmith Charley]

I have gone a step further and made an image file of the files in question.

 

Then I have "successfully" written the image file to a DVD once again...

 

I get same results, "Used Space 0 " and "Free Space 0"

 

This is getting old fairly quickly...

 

 

 

[Locksmith Charley]

I did a "VERIFY" operation on the disk that I made from the file.

 

I 23:20:12 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started!

I 23:20:12 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3)

I 23:20:12 Total Physical Memory: 2,095,532 KB - Available: 1,055,236 KB

I 23:20:12 Initialising SPTI...

I 23:20:12 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 23:20:12 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Use UDF 1.02

[Locksmith Charley]

Use UDF 1.02

 

If that is the program default upon install, I used that for the first 3 or 4 attempts.

I changed to the other setting joliet + what appeared to be the most recent UDF + etc. for the last one.

 

it appears that the default is: ISO9660 + UDF. Are you saying use the UDF only?

 

Thanks in advance,

Charley

[Cynthia]

Windows XP supports UDF 1.02, 1.5, and 2.01. If you need higher versions you need to install additional drivers.

 

Use the default ones; ISO9660; UDF (1.02)

 

[Locksmith Charley]

As I said before, the first 3-4 times that I tried this I used the ImgBurn defaults of; ISO9660; UDF (1.02)

 

That resulted in 3-4 coasters. If it had worked the first time with the defaults, I wouldn't have tried experimenting or be posting here.....

[LIGHTNING UK!]

If it burns and verifies when using UDF 1.02, the problem is with windows... it's probably getting confused and still thinks the blank disc is in the drive - i.e. it hasn't tried to read the disc again properly after the burn.

 

Shut the machine down and try reading it again.

 

If ImgBurn can read the disc, Windows should be able to too.