BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.10.02

[spwolf]

explorer view has apsolutly nothing to do with burner, it is just an wrapper over standard windows controls which show drives available on your computer. What happened with PowerArchiver freezing when trying to read that external drive from post above?

PowerArchiver has apsolutly nothing to do with your other burning software which may be working perfectly. So lets get that out of the way please.

Now, when it comes to the PA Burner and your external drive. Did it EVER recognize the drive? Or did it simply not work ever?

[Hagen]

@spwolf:

explorer view has apsolutly nothing to do with burner, it is just an wrapper over standard windows controls which show drives available on your computer. What happened with PowerArchiver freezing when trying to read that external drive from post above?

PowerArchiver has apsolutly nothing to do with your other burning software which may be working perfectly. So lets get that out of the way please.

Now, when it comes to the PA Burner and your external drive. Did it EVER recognize the drive? Or did it simply not work ever?

It briefly recognized the external drive the first time I used it when I tried the first burning job. After the first burning job didn’t work…it no longer reads the drive for CD/DVD jobs.

[spwolf]

ok great, we will start from there :).
We will have an internal build with new burning engine within few days and we will let you know via this thread where to download it.

There are million possible issues when it comes to cd/dvd/bd burners, they are all slightly different and there are 3 different interfaces we can use to burn files, this all contributes to the issues with specific burners. We do have very extensive logging support just for this.

thank you,

[Hagen]

@spwolf:

ok great, we will start from there :).
We will have an internal build with new burning engine within few days and we will let you know via this thread where to download it.

There are million possible issues when it comes to cd/dvd/bd burners, they are all slightly different and there are 3 different interfaces we can use to burn files, this all contributes to the issues with specific burners. We do have very extensive logging support just for this.

thank you,

I have good news. I did a Windows XP reboot and now PowerArchiver 2010 can see and read the external DVD drive correctly. Whew! That was close.

Now comes the hard part…narrowing down why the freezing happens.

Here’s an interesting question…

1. Do I put the DVD/CD in the external drive BEFORE hitting the Burn button on PA2010 when I need to run a burn job? Would this help prevent PA2010 from “skipping” to reading the drive contents more accurately?

[spwolf]

@Hagen:

I have good news. I did a Windows XP reboot and now PowerArchiver 2010 can see and read the external DVD drive correctly. Whew! That was close.

Now comes the hard part…narrowing down why the freezing happens.

:-)

I pretty much figured out that was the case (needed an reboot).

You do need to try to burn to internal drive, that will narrow down issue to the external drive (vs everything else).

[Hagen]

@spwolf:

:-)

I pretty much figured out that was the case (needed an reboot).

You do need to try to burn to internal drive, that will narrow down issue to the external drive (vs everything else).

Ugh! I was hoping to save the internal DVD drive for only emergency situations like reinstalling the OS. I’ve become paranoid about this because if one uses the internal DVD drive to the point of exhaustion you’d be forced to bring in your box to having it serviced to install a new one. This just inconveniences your time to do this.

I’ll try burning a DVD using the internal one.

[Hagen]

I’ve attached a screenshot showing PA2010 successfully did a test burn on my internal DVD drive. So…that part has been removed from consideration.

[Hagen]

Uh…fellas? I’m still waiting for the build to fix the burner freezing issue. Although I’m able to burn using my internal DVD drive…doens’t mean this problem is fixed. I have an external DVD burner that I’d like to use for primary burning jobs.

[spwolf]

@Hagen:

Uh…fellas? I’m still waiting for the build to fix the burner freezing issue. Although I’m able to burn using my internal DVD drive…doens’t mean this problem is fixed. I have an external DVD burner that I’d like to use for primary burning jobs.

there is no magic wand we wave around here to fix issues. Be patient, and you will be informed via this forum thread when we have new build.

thank you!

[Hagen]

@spwolf:

there is no magic wand we wave around here to fix issues. Be patient, and you will be informed via this forum thread when we have new build.

thank you!

Just thought I’d give you some eyebrow raising information about my further “adventures” in DVD burning using my external drive.

I decided to double check just to make sure that there is something wrong with the burner software in PA2010.

Well, I have good news…look at the screenshot. It says PA2010 successfully burned and VERIFIED 200 mg of data to my external DVD drive. But…

I double checked using Directory Opus 9 to verify the contents of the newly “burned and verified” DVD I just put through PA2010. Guess what? There was absolutely NOTHING on the disc. Zero. Nada. I used the defaults in PA2010 and it went through the motions to read and “verify” my data and said my session was completed successfully. That’s what the screen grab shows in the attached photo. But when I checked to make sure it was true…there wasn’t anything there.

When I hit the close button to the dialog box saying the burn session had completed? It froze PA2010 and I had to give it the three finger salute to close the application.

[spwolf]

You mean it froze PA Burner right? As those are two separate applications actually, closing PA Burner has nothing to do with PA 2010 itself.

Seems like session info was not recorded properly in that case. We will know more once new burner is ready.

thanks

[spwolf]

Hi,

please check following release:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2010/powarc1160rc1.exe

and let us know how it works now.

thanks!

[MarcFou]

@Hagen:

It briefly recognized the external drive the first time I used it when I tried the first burning job. After the first burning job didn’t work…it no longer reads the drive for CD/DVD jobs.

I just wanted to confirm I a similar issue with v11.50.61

I got to 98% in the burning process, then gave an error (dont recall what it said). Ejected the disk and from that point failed to recognize any blank disk inserted.

The OS also wouldnt recognize when a blank disk was inserted. Reboot didnt fix it. I had to unplug the drive, boot up into Windows, then plug the drive back in. Now the OS can see the drive and I can burn from the shell. Havent tried it again in PA.

The file I was burning was a 1 GB ISO image. Vista Business x86 SP1. The drive is a Toshiba H653A.

[Hagen]

@spwolf:

Hi,

please check following release:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2010/powarc1160rc1.exe

and let us know how it works now.

thanks!

So far so good on my end. I need to test it on my external tomorrow before giving it a full thumbs up.

[spwolf]

did you check with your external drive? We just added support for another burning method (SPTD) in PA 2010, in latest preview version. It is actually faster (20% in our tests it might be different) and lets multiple devices use burner at same time (which is problem with other burning methods).

It is automatically installed once you get latest PAVD update… let us know how it works.

[Hagen]

I just installed the PA 2010 (latest build) today. I’ll test it to see if this works on my external burner.

[spwolf]

@Hagen:

I just installed the PA 2010 (latest build) today. I’ll test it to see if this works on my external burner.

make sure you also install latest PAVD…

[Hagen]

Something is wrong…I get an error dialog box saying “wrong Starburn.dll file”. What’s going on? And what is this PAVD thing you’re referring to?

[spwolf]

@Hagen:

Something is wrong…I get an error dialog box saying “wrong Starburn.dll file”. What’s going on? And what is this PAVD thing you’re referring to?

hm, check the dates on files:
PABURNTOOLS.EXE
Starburn.dll

in your PA folder. They should be 7.9.2009 and 13.08.2009 respectivly.

[Hagen]

@spwolf:

hm, check the dates on files:
PABURNTOOLS.EXE
Starburn.dll

in your PA folder. They should be 7.9.2009 and 13.08.2009 respectivly.

Actually I’m reading

PABURNTOOLS.EXE as 8.9.2009
Starburn.dll as 13.08.2009

So in conclusion…I think I’m using an even more updated version of PABURNTOOLS.EXE while Starburn.dll appears incorrect…because it’s not updated for the PaBurnTools.exe date. This is probably why I’m getting the error message when I hit the option VD button.