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qyot27 · 29th June 2018, 05:01

ImgBurn is all you'll need to use. For data backup, go ahead and use UDF. The issue was that back then, XP didn't support UDF 2.5 or 2.6 (both used on retail Blu-ray Discs) except via third-party utilities, and even older versions of Windows had higher restrictions. But UDF 2.6 was finalized in 2005, there is absolutely no reason for any OS from the last decade to not support it fully. If you want to be cautious, you could leave ImgBurn set on plain UDF at version 1.02; if you ever want to author a video Blu-ray, ImgBurn will probably prompt you to change the UDF version to the appropriate level, since it prompts to automatically adjust to the ISO 9660/UDF bridge format when you want to build an ISO from a DVD directory structure.

I'm not sure if the mode settings even mean anything on DVD or Blu-ray (pretty sure that was a track sector layout thing specific to CD-ROM), but leaving ImgBurn on MODE1/2048 is fine.

The only thing I will mention is just, make sure you have plenty of drive space to hold the data.

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qyot27 ...? Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 1,420	ImgBurn is all you'll need to use. For data backup, go ahead and use UDF. The issue was that back then, XP didn't support UDF 2.5 or 2.6 (both used on retail Blu-ray Discs) except via third-party utilities, and even older versions of Windows had higher restrictions. But UDF 2.6 was finalized in 2005, there is absolutely no reason for any OS from the last decade to not support it fully. If you want to be cautious, you could leave ImgBurn set on plain UDF at version 1.02; if you ever want to author a video Blu-ray, ImgBurn will probably prompt you to change the UDF version to the appropriate level, since it prompts to automatically adjust to the ISO 9660/UDF bridge format when you want to build an ISO from a DVD directory structure. I'm not sure if the mode settings even mean anything on DVD or Blu-ray (pretty sure that was a track sector layout thing specific to CD-ROM), but leaving ImgBurn on MODE1/2048 is fine. The only thing I will mention is just, make sure you have plenty of drive space to hold the data.