How To Copy A Dvd-r To Another Dvd-r

[Dannie Heinzen]

Goingover all the log, I've compiled a few relevant things that I think lead to the problem. You're failing even on fine quality MCC discs from Verbatim/Mitsubishi. You're failing on 2 different drives, but there's one thing in common with both of them. They're both slim drives. Slim drives are generally trash. So, I'd lay the blame on the use of slim drives. Try half height drives. I would be willing to bet the AZO discs will fail, too. You were failing on quality MCC, quality MKM DVD+R DL from Verbatim/Mitsubishi, and a ProDisc which is trash to begin with.

Thanks for your time. I'm not sure I can find a USB 3.x cable for this drive. It's a bit old. What's mystifying is that I've been burning ISO files to discs from this same package of discs using the internal burner of my previous laptop as well as this laptop for 5 years and this is the first time either one failed multiple times using both DVDFab and ImgBurn. I only tried the external drive because the internal drive failed to write the ISO file.

Not all slim models are trash. Generally, Pioneer is good slim models, but I don't know about yours, so I can't explain your results. The slim burner in your old laptop may have been one of the better models. Do you remember what model was in your laptop?

Sorry, yeah, I meant the old laptop where you were getting successful burns before. Since it was in a laptop, it, too, would be a slim model drive, but it may have been one of the better models. Unfortunately, of course, that description doesn't help much in identifying what model was in your old laptop.

The SU208 is a Toshiba or Samsung model. I've no experience with those, although I believe TSST is Toshiba and the SU208 might be a TSST model. TSST models tend to be somewhat iffy in terms of reports I've seen from users with issues with those on here. However, you seemed to have no problems.

TSST is short for Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology. It's an ID string that appears in the "names" of things like Toshiba/Samsung hard drives and optical disc burners. It's common for Toshiba/Samsung optical disc burners to "identify" themselves to the OS as "names" with TSST in them.

I never migrate anything with any kind of automated software. I prefer to do it all myself. Software settings are stored all over the Registry so just moving things from one PC to another doesn't work. Laplink may just migrate simple things like Documents, though. I don't store any user files in Documents, preferring my own locations on USB HDD's. This keeps the Windows partition smaller and thus my daily backups smaller and quicker. So, I don't have much to migrate. And I prefer to reinstall everything on a new PC. That way, I can find out what installs and doesn't, as there usually is something that won't work right, on a different PC. I also have a lot of portable applications so I can just point shortcuts to them on my USB HDD's. And my e-mail and web browser clients have options to load profiles from alternate locations, so I just install them and point them to the profile folders I have on my USB HDD's.

I generally don't buy extended warranties. It rarely bites me in the ass, but 2 years ago, it did. Half a year after the warranty expired on my previous 8930, it required replacing. It's the only time I never bought an extended PC warranty that I ever had the need to take advantage of one. Extended warranties are generally a waste of money. Most repairs when needed will generally be within the warranty if a repair is required. And most PC's last longer than extended warranties, but as I showed in my case, it's not always the case. So, it's up to the user if they want to invest the money in an extended warranty.

Thanks again. Storing data on external HDDs sounds good, especially when large SSDs are getting cheaper and cheaper. I guess I was just trying to avoid the hassle of re-installation. I guess I could make an image of the new PC, try laplink and go back if it doesn't work. They say the migration can be file based or image based.

USB SSD's are getting larger, but they're still relatively small compared to what you can get in a mechanical USB HDD. I just recently upgraded my 14 TB model to 18, which the current consumer level cap. And I believe SSD's may currently be capped at 2 TB and they're not as value priced per GB when compared to USB HDD's. Still, for anything you want to transport, I'd use a USB SSD because you generally don't need to move large amounts of files. And the SSD will be faster writing by a significant factor. I have 2 1 TB Samsung T5 USB SSD's, 2 500 GB T5's, and 1 500 GB WD My Passport USB SSD. I also have a 5 TB My Passport USB HDD because I needed something portable and with a capacity enough to store multiple disk images. I also have multiple 512 and 256 GB thumb drives which I used to use before migrating to USB SSD's.

It's a rebadged Pioneer. I've not tested it thoroughly to see if works well as a writer, but I've got MCC DVD-R I can test it with. Next time I need to burn a DVD-R, which should be within the next few days, I'll try to remember to test it out on this Pioneer. If it works, you might want to try getting one yourself. Of course, it is over $100, so if you don't need BD burning, then paying that much for it might be overkill.

Thanks. I guess $40 isn't much, but I'm becoming superstitious about this whole thing in view of the fact that I didn't have problems previously with the same discs and the same burner as well as a different burner with the same discs. i ordered a commercial copy of the film, "Groundhog Day", for $5, so just for the heck of it, I will make a new ISO with DVDFab and see what happens when I try to burn it before I buy a new drive. Did you ever see "Poltergeist"? Maybe that's my problem? ?

Just as a baseline, I got around to burning an MCC DVD-R in that Pioneer USB BD slim model from Verbatim. It completed and Verified without errors. For what it's worth, I've yet to do a playback compatibility test.

Thanks. I bought a commercial copy of the film and DVDFab was unable to burn a DVD-R disc. I didn't bother with trying it with ImgBurn, since I had the same problem with it as DVDFab. I remain mystified. I guess perhaps I should at least try the Verbatim drive, but I have already tried two different drives. Perhaps it is something in my computer since that is the other thing that is the same more or less as the discs and the file, although as I said, my previous computer also had no problems with this batch of discs.

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