cues and isos again

have just been trying to burn dts cds (it's in wav.cue format)

system refuses to burn both the images i try to burn
have had two different error messages:
"can't read file" and "cannot find image"

also now ashampoo just crashes with a windows "close program" message

any ideas/help? i'm pretty sure it's not software specific - as i've loaded 3 versions of ashampoo and also magic iso

could it be hardware? no it sounds silly but could there be drivers required for win7 to understand cue/bin files?

thanks

Hello brenski and welcome to Seven Forums.

Have you had this problem before or has it just started? Are you using audio CDs? I'm not sure if Ashampoo or Windows 7 natively supports DTS burning. But you might see if this free tool works. It supposedly supports DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming.

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Since you mention images and ISOs, I presume that you are trying to burn the ISOs into an optical media but the burning software you used failed. ( It is immaterial what the ISO contains since it is just the replica of the original.)

On this presumption, I would suggest that you defragment the ISOs using WinContig WinContig or Power Defragmenter RejZoR - Power Defragmenter 3.0 released! and then burn the defragmented ISOs.

May or may not work, but absolutely no harm in trying. ( When my multi-boot pendrive couldn't boot from a bootable ISO, the above defragmentation helped to fix it. After defragging the ISO, it booted.)

Fragmented ISOs? Does such a thing even exist I've never ever seen an ISO containing a filesystem where any file was in more than one fragment.

brenski: you mention a "wav.cue" image, is this a .cue file with multiple .wav files? Or is your image a .bin/.cue set? The .cue file is actually plain readable text; if you could post it here that would be great.

ISO itself is one single file. It can be broken and placed at different locations in segments in which case it is fragmented.

Such non-contiguous ISOs may not work/appear corrupt in certain situations like the multiboot pen drive I have mentioned previously.

WinContig or Power defragmenter can make the ISO contiguous by putting all the fragments together in one place. Defragmented.

Perfect Disk drive map of an HDD containing 13 large ISOs (no other file category) with no fragments:




The same drive with one ISO fragmented:



WinContig and Power Defragmenter can list the fragmented files (ISOs in this case) and defragment the chosen files.

I didn't realize you were talking about the ISO itself, I thought you meant the files within. Still, I don't think fragmentation should affect it anymore than it would affect an mp3 file or a video or a Word document. (Of course it's different if you try to burn it to a disc at high speed and the HD can't keep up with delivering the data - but that shouldn't cause actual read errors.)

But the OP's question was about a .cue/.wav image, or so he claims. We're not even dealing with .iso files here...

Yep, Corazon, normally though a fragmented ISO shouldn't matter. It is just like any other fragmented file.

Recently when I added the latest Paragon WinPE recovery CD ISO to my multiboot pendrive it wouldn't boot. As recommended by the software author, I defragmented the ISO in the flash drive with Power Defragmenter and then it booted. So under certain conditions/situations defragmenting the ISO can help. ( I am not sure whether it will help only under a Linux environment.) So where one finds some difficulty in dealing with a particular ISO, my recommendation will be to try defragmenting the ISO. It may or may not help in that particular situation, but trying it does not cost anything except the little time it takes to defragment that single ISO.

Since the OP mentioned "cues and ISOs again" as the title, I had presumed certain things as clearly stated in my first post. Yes, my presumption was wrong.:)

Let us now hear from the OP and his response to your query.

Yes, let's. But thanks for your useful information. :)