I have the same problem you have , see mine in another post.
It seems to me that everyone of us has its own experience good or bad in burning dvd be +r or -r. There is not any rules to follow, to reach a certain result , and we all loose time and money for this.At the end I thing it is better to buy the original one saving time and money.
Then no one say if there are the same problems with Cd's but only with dvd and this is the reson I have postponed the os sw' update , having experienced bad results with trouble.
Probably also the Dvd drive must be investigated. Has anyone some spec of this mk4?( I have it on e46)
Appreciate your comments.
Mario

FOUND THE PROBLEM!! .. we're using the wrong image! BMW20062.ISO isn't for e46 or the older X5 systems. The one that will work is here:

http://torrentspy.com/download.asp?id=626299

This is the one that was hosted on m3forums.com. Its 3 rar files that extracts a MDF file. You can burn the MDF with Alcohol 120% (has a free trial)

good luck!

Thanks much guys. I found the problem, it was my Dvd burner that crapped out on me. Its not even an year old, guess you get what you pay for when you buy on black friday sale

Anyways heres the "working combination". I tried Technic's method of burning a DvD+R at 4x & it works fine. I havent bothered experimenting with any other combination as I dont want to ruin more DvDs. The only difference between what Technic posted & what I did was that I used a Fuji DvD.

Good luck to all with the same issues as me.

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OK.. I'm going to try this image out.. and see if we have any luck.. I know that the one file the torrent file call "bmw20062.iso.torrent" that one doesn't work for me..

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I am having trouble download the images. I get to 99.9% and it stop. The first file is compeleted at 100% but other 3 files is at 99.9%. Anyone else is having the same problem. Can someone help?

does anybody know where i can download nav cd 2006 disk #1

So, I got the NA 2006-2 from torrentspy, and I used ultraiso to burn the image (single iso file) at 4x speed on a sony dvdr- ....i also renamed the dvd to "NAV_DB"...the drive accepts the dvd, but it's wierd..like, i have the software, but no gps stuff, like no voice, no maps, no destinations or POI, but i can scroll through the menus and all.... I am not sure what's going on. I didn't have to extract the iso image using winrar or winimage to my HD and then do something with the extracted files, eh? Cuz, ultraiso an ETOH 120 only allow burning imaging files (iso)

I intially used Alcohol 120 but I didn't know how to change the volume name on the dvd to say "NAV_DB"....and there is an option to "make image", but after playing with it, i presume that's if u have a dvd and u want to upload an image on to your HD?? Anyways, any suggestions, anyone else have similar problem. I opened the dvd and it seems to have extracted and I can see all the files, pretty similar to the 2002 version I have. So, in terms of technical, I think I burnt it correctly, but I don't know. What should I do? Try DVDR+? Burn at slower speed? Different brand? Technically, does it look like I did evrything correctly, in terms of the actual process, etc.? Thanks a lot.

I'll second that as I can't find a reasonably priced MK IV system to upgrade my X5 with.

Can anyone tell me where I can download the latest Map Disks from? I've searched online and whatever links I've found in this post have lead to dead ends.

Would appreciate any help!

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2003 X5 E53 4.4
2001 740iL Sport
1990 325i E30 - Restored/Restoring