After successfully making a back up, i attempted to make another backup of another image. ImgBurn reported my buffer continually going down to 0, again and again and again while repeatedly waiting for my "HDD activity threshold" to reach a desired level I continued to let it burn, but while it was burning, decided to run programs on my computer like firefox, some very light anti-virus programs. Now my buffer is at 100% constant, yay! Maybe I just needed to get my hard drive spinning?
Used to happen to me, i have 2 disk drive in my pc, so i unplugged the power to the one i didnt use and now i get 100 buffer and device buffer. i think the drive thats doing the burning isnt getting enough power.