Disc image = twice as large??

[Try4ce]

At work we recently got a system that can burn four dual layer lightscribe discs simultaneously. It came with Roxio Media Creator 9. The directions on the one sheet of documentation included with the unit are pretty straightforward, and all seems to work except for one part: making the disc image.

The only way to create more than one disc at a time is by using the image file. Oddly, when creating an image, I'm getting something like 4 separate files, and all total, they equal almost double the actual data on the disc! This just doesn't work. Whether it be using the Roxio software I have, or something free I can download, how can I make a proper disc image?

[TooLFooL]

try Imgburn!

[jman98]

I agree with TooLFooL's advice, but here is possibly why this is happening. Let's say you have a dual layer DVD which we will "My Vacation" which is 7.5 GB in size is of your vacation footage. You rip it to your hard drive under the directory C:\myjunk. Now under C:\myjunk you have VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS directories that came from the original DVD. Let's say for some reason that you use C:\myjunk to store other files that have nothing to do with your DVD. When you create an image, Roxio may be grabbing everything at the directory level of VIDEO_TS, so if you have, say, five 1.5 GB files in the C:\myjunk directory, your ISO image will contain:
VIDEO_TS
AUDIO_TS
and all five of the 1.5 GB files in the directory

If this is what Roxio is doing, the only way to prevent this is to make sure that the directory you rip to is empty except for the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS directories.

[Try4ce]

Unfortunately ImgBurn didn't turn out a playable disc, but it did make a file of the proper size...

Wonder what I did wrong.

[Cornucopia]

Get ISOBuster and read a sample of the discimage files (both the Roxio-made and the IMGBurn-made) and see the differences, post them here, etc. It might be quite obvious once you look inside...

Scott