having trouble backing up dvd9 to dvd9

[Chunking]

Greetings,
I’m having trouble backing up a DVD9 to a DVD9. I have a Toshiba 5372 drive with firmware TU56. I’ve used DVDdecrypter to build an image and burn an image. That failed with a write error. I used DVDshink ins DVD9 mode to build and image. That failed during writing with dvddecypter. I tried using DVDfab to extract all the files and then used DVD shrink to build the ISO. Then used DVDdecypter to burn image. That failed during burn too. I have no problem burning DVD5 discs. Is there some sort of setting I need to make? Am I missing something? I wasted a few dvd9 discs during this testing. I’m gonna get a rewritable till I get this right.

[Baldrick]

I would try burn with ImgBurn instead of dvddecrypter.

WHat does the error log say in dvddecrypter?

[Chunking]

It gives an I/O write error. Scsi

[jman98]

If you use any DVD discs except Verbatim DVD+R DL for dual layer burns, you are throwing your money away. I'm guessing that you didn't use Verbatim discs. DVDDecrypter hasn't been updated in years. You should use ImgBurn for burning now. It uses the same burning engine, but at least it's kept up to date, that DVDDecrypter used to use.

I/O write errors can be caused by a lot of things. Use a lower burning speed and better media. We get a lot of posts here asking why dual layer burns fail and in almost every post they admit that they didn't use Verbatim DL discs but something else.

[Chunking]

I used memorex. Which I beleive is Ridata or Ritek. I'll find a re-writable and keep testing. I'll also try imgburn. I didn't know if I was missing some sort of setting I needed to change going from dvd5 to dvd9.

[Chunking]

Well, Tried BurnImg and got the following

[guns1inger]

The discs are not very good quality to start with, so that may be the cause of your problems. Imgburn is also saying they are incompatible - are you sure your burner can write to these discs ? You don't say if you are using - or + R DLs.

But as pointed out, if you don't use Verbatim +R DLs from Singapore, you might as well flush your money down the toilet.

[Chunking]

The drive is both Plus and minus. I'm using Plus disc.

[guns1inger]

The drive is both Plus and minus. I'm using Plus disc.

You may need a firmware update to burn that particular disc.

You also seem to be studiously avoiding the issue that these are crap discs, and may never burn well for you. Accept that you have done your money, and go and buy some Singapore manufactured Verbatims.

[Chunking]

Noted that these are not good disc. Can't get around that. Just trying not to waste them entirely if I can get around that. But I may not be able to.

Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything besides the media.

thanks