What are Reddit's favorite DVD Burner Apps?
ImgBurn
CDBurnerXP
InfraRecorder
VideoPad
Free Studio
RealPlayer
AnyBurn
Brasero
Freemake Video Converter
StarBurn
aTube Catcher
Alcohol
FairUse Wizard
Roxio Toast
ISO2Disc
Astroburn
WinX DVD Author
LiquidCD
Aimersoft DVD Creator
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Just use ImgBurn.
Edit: a couple of folks have pointed out that ImgBurn is also doing this lately, although it seems to be less dickish about allowing you to turn off the option. There are still other alternatives mentioned below.
There might be something better, but it's what I use - CDBurnerXP.
Why did programs like Nero and Roxio have to make burning disks so fucking complicated? Drop the shit in the box and hit burn, that's all that needs to happen there.
I've used this program for years without any spyware problems, you probably got infected from something else. I just upgraded to version 2.5.6.0 which was released early last month. during the install it will ask you to install the ASK.COM tool bar (and to change your homepage and your main search engine) just say no to all that crap and you should be good to go. =) Download
For the record, it is impossible to pirate a windows ISO. Microsoft makes all of them publicly available for download. It is the license that is or is not legit.
Regardless, all you have to do is burn the ISO to a disk (as an image, not just copying the ISO file to disk). ImgBurn is my disk burning software of choice.
I think you should append to Step 2:
If you don't have a USB drive, you can burn the ISO to a DVD using ImgBurn or other image burning software and then install it using your DVD drive.
Then mods could have their link say "How to Download and Install Windows 7" which would be a little more helpful/descriptive.
Edit: Also a mention that x64 means 64-bit and x86 means 32-bit.
Try using this app for burning (instead of WMP): CDBurnerXP. It’s easy to use, it should work with any audio file (or any file as a matter of fact) and it’s free. I used it for awhile and it worked fine for me. Hopefully it also help you.
Do you want a real DVD with Menus and so on that plays on a regular DVD player [go there]? Or simply a data DVD with the mp4 file on it [download this]?
Recommend CDBURNERXP or IMGBURN if you're just looking for CD burning capabilities.
MediaMonkey is a full suite for managing your media, so unless you're looking for an iTunes-type replacement it is more than you likely need.
Are you doing this just for archiving or are you wanting to watch the content?
You can either use http://www.imgburn.com/ to make ISO's for complete duplication.
Or http://www.makemkv.com/ if you'd like to be able to play them back in any video player of your choice.
Both options keep the quality, almost, if not completely the same as source I believe.
Windows 8/8.1 does, indeed, have built in support for mounting and burning ISOs. Right-click, "Burn disc image". Done. Not Windows' fault you can't be arsed to join the modern age.
Also: there are TONS of free disc burning programs. Just use Bing or Google or DuckDuckGo or whatever. Further, if you're not burning a pre-made ISO, Windows 7's Windows Explorer can be used as a drag-and-drop to "queue" items to burn, then you just burn it.
Edit: I suppose while I'm here, I could make a recommendation to be 'helpful' or whatever: http://www.imgburn.com/
Stuff you will need:
- Time, quite a bit of it
- CD or DVD drive with write functionality
- a blank writable CD or DVD
- ~10 GB of free hard drive space (more is better)
- Backup of your important Windows files
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- Go to http://www.ubuntu.com download their 32 bit cd iso (the orange get Ubuntu button).
- After the download completes burn it to a CD
- Download http://infrarecorder.org/
- open InfaRecorder and press the write image button
- select the Ubuntu iso
- wait for the system to burn the cd rom
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you now have a CD installer for Ubuntu
Place in the cd rom drive and reboot
as soon as the computer reboots press f12 and boot from the CD drive
When Ubuntu is done booting from the CD press the try Ubuntu button
If all goes well you will be presented with a desktop that you can use to get a feel for Ubuntu
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- When you are ready click the Install Ubuntu 11.04 shortcut on the desktop
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- In the Preparing to Install Ubuntu steps
- select language
- Check install this third party software on the second page
- Select Install Ubuntu alongside Microsoft Windows...
- It will divide up the free space on your hard drive between Windows and Ubuntu
- if you want give Windows or Ubuntu more space by dragging the slider
- Click install now and wait
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- When the install completes restart the computer and remove the cd
- When starting your computer you now should have the choice of using Ubuntu or Windows
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- go through the rest of the setup steps
- this is mainly account setup and a few other settings
before you wait for someone to send you a disk, why don't you download a .iso from the xubuntu site, or the lubuntu site, and then use imgburn on windows to burn the iso to a disk,
you could have it done today, instead of waiting.
Create an ISO image with Imgburn and use Microsoft's Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool to create a bootable USB installer. You will need at least a 4 gig USB key.
ImgBurn is a free tool to rip the CD into an ISO file. VirtualCloneDrive is a free tool to virtually mount the ISO so the computer thinks it is a CD.
http://www.imgburn.com/ http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html
Hello, welcome to /r/freesoftware. I have a feeling you mean "free" as in price (zero cost), but when we say "free" we mean free as in freedom. Free (as in freedom) software gives you the freedom to use, study, change, and share (copy) the program however you want. Most software that is free as in price doesn't let you study, change, or share it.
That said, InfraRecorder seems to be a good burning program for Windows that is free as in freedom as well as in price. (However, Windows itself is not free software, so if you are concerned about software freedom this isn't enough.)
Try using the software off this website. http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download Rip it off and get a 'iso' file from the disc. Then you should have a serperate file from the CD on your computer labeled 'blahblahblaevagos.iso'. Then you can take this iso and upload it to a torrent website such as megaupload or thepiratebay. I believe you will have to create an account to upload files. Godspeed!
ImgBurn. Use the mode "Create image file from disc", and save it to a location of your choice.
Incidentally, ImgBurn is one of the best burning programs out there. Everyone should have it installed.
Have you tried Free Studio? I haven't tried it but meant to and forgot about it when I needed it. I've heard good things about it. Might try that and use Audacity for what that doesn't do.
> What is the difference between using these programs compared to an ISO burner such as PowerISO or alcohol120?
The obvious answer is that burning a physical CD requires a disc blank, which is frequently single use whereas USB drives are re-usable. You also can't install using a CD if the PC doesn't have a CD drive. If you want to play around with a couple of distributions with about two releases a year each then that's quite a bit of waste and general inconvenience.
The software you mentioned tries to justify the price by offering additional features that are completely unrelated to burning ISOs (e.g. "Up to 31 virtual drives" which Linux loopback devices can do out of the box). If all you care about is getting an ISO image onto that disc blank than things like InfraRecorder will do the job just as well (http://infrarecorder.org/)
> Why would someone pay for software when there are free alternatives?
Because Windows lacks a lot of really basic features, thereby creating a market in 3rd party software - for example, you need 3rd party software if you don't want running windows in the taskbar grouped with glorified desktop icons (making it impossible to easily tell which applications are actually running).
I've always been a fan of infrarecorder. It's FLOSS, has a familiar interface, and there is a graphic that makes the window look like it's billowing smoke during operations!
If you can navigate reddit you can rip videos.
First find an online youtube to .mp4 converter like this one. Paste the url of the video and download the .mp4 file.
Then find a free burning software like this one and done.
Most of this stuff can be found pretty easily with a quick google search. Search queries like "youtube to mp4" and "dvd bluray burn software" will get tons of results if you don't want to use the ones I found.
Did you download from the official site, right? http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download
Also, better look for a Win10 ISO to install on that drive, it has better suppport and you'll get more speed.
Turn off your computer. Go and have a cup of tea. Come back and turn it on. That should stop the 'open in another program' error. Your poor old computer may have gotten confused.
Uninstall the programs you have installed. I don't use windows but google will tell you how to do so. If you're having problems, google the error message, or ask me.
Then go download one of these https://cdburnerxp.se/en/home OR http://www.imgburn.com/
Again, I haven't used windows in years so I don't know what all the cool kids are using or if these are supported by Windows 10 but they probably are.
If you're still having problems reply here with some details of what's going wrong.
Do you have any real games to try? Some times even real disks will fail the boot check if the system is having issues.
Try really cleaning the laser pickup lens with a semi-damp cloth.
Use Alcohol 120% or Imgburn software.
Imgburn can be found here free
Also download the add-on at the bottom of the page, Padus .CDI File Mounter v1.0.0.12.
There are two ways: CD or USB.
For CD, do you have any image burning software? I suggest ImgBurn.
From there, burn the image you downloaded to your CD then pop that bad boy into your CD drive and you should be good to go.
For USB, download Rufus. It will create a bootable USB drive. You will need to format your USB drive before use, then specify the image you want to mount. Plug that into a USB port, boot from USB, and you should be good.
Verify you download. This makes sure that the download was sucessful. Burn at a slower speed and verify the disk also. The verification makes sure there were no burning errors.
I recommend ImgBurn.
Yes, but there are many ways to do this, and the processes aren't as refined as with DVD. Also, they're a bit more complex (and quite possibly illegal) due to the copy protection on Bluray discs.
One way is to create a direct copy of the Bluray disc onto your hard drive, that will take 40-50GB for most commercial discs. This will be the easiest and quickest way to do it, but will take the most time.
Another way is to take just the video from the Bluray, and re-encode the video into a more compressed format, usually an mkv file with x264 video encoding. This will take ~15GB per movie, depending on the quality and compression. This re-encode, however, will take a long time, especially on a low-end CPU.
For the first option, I would suggest a program like ImgBurn:
For the second option, LifeHacker has a great guide:
http://lifehacker.com/5559007/the-hassle+free-guide-to-ripping-your-blu+ray-collection
You can use ImgBurn to rip the disc to an ISO on your HDD, and then burn that ISO onto other DVDs. This won't work with copy-protected discs, but will do just fine for everything else.
What you need to do is download the ISO from your school's msdn (e-academy) website. Then you need to burn it onto a dvd with something like ImgBurn and install it onto the machine (with the ssd attached). If you install windows on another machine and just swap the drive, you're going to have a bad time. The reason for this has to do with the Hardware Abstraction Layer. If you don't have a dvd burner use a friend's computer to burn it.
> Got a couple quotes, $90 was the lowest for an OS installation. Thanks for the input, all.
Do it yourself for free if you have a little bit of patience for the download.
Find the license key, which you legally own. This will be on a sticker on the bottom of the laptop.
Download an .iso backup file of whatever your operating system is from a torrent. Use Vertor or torrentz.com to find a verified copy of this backup. Do NOT download a cracked/keygen/etc file.
Burn the backup .iso onto a DVD with ImgBurn
Use that backup DVD to reinstall your OS, using the license key you own.
Re-installing the OS is super super easy. Put in the DVD, boot from CD-ROM, let it load up, select your language, and follow the instructions for installation. It will take about 20 minutes or so.
Please, save yourself the $90!
Official Microsoft Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool.
You have to start with an ISO. If you have a dvd, you can rip the iso using free software.
If you don't want to bother ripping, you can download the ISO directly, legally, from Microsoft. I'm not going to post the links, as some might see this as encouraging piracy, but they are 100% legit from digital river (Microsoft).
Make a bunch of disc images with ImgBurn, then add them all to Handbrake, which will turn them into video files. I recommend you use the h.264 encoder (good quality), so the file extensions will be mp4 or mkv instead of avi. Just use the "high" preset plus a few custom settings, and you're good to go.
Dual layer DVD. Then use something like ImgBurn to burn it to disc. You do need to mod the Xbox to read the disc (either through flashing the firmware on the drive or something more in depth, depending on the drive you have) and burning with a couple specific settings I don't have off the top of my head.
FS is Free Studio.
Violet triangle is my dongle dialler, Ucell Internet. An alternative to my main Reliance dialler from some foreign company. (They built that dialler for ZTE modems.)
Onto a Usb via a DVD? Huh.? :)
For burning the iso file onto a DVD disk, i tend to use
I just realized - i dont even have an optical drive on my desktop machine.. well.. its in the case. I just unplugged it to plug in another ssd. :)
lol, this description is pretty funny but I know how he feels. Have you tried InfraRecorder to make the ISO? It's free. What you say makes some sense -- Test Drive: Off Road was kind of like that, it'd play as a normal music CD but also had an installer for the game. If I could get a look at that it may shed some light on all this, but I can't make any guarantees.
Something you could try though is mounting your CD drive to DosBox (going off memory here but it should be "mount d d:\ -t cdrom", where d:\ is your physical cd rom device) and try to run it that way.
Did you just copy the files from the disk onto the flash drive? Because that may present some problems. Like I mentioned in the first comment, you'll need to use a tool like infrarecorder to make a virtual disc, and then mount it on your new PC.
If that still doesn't work I don't really know what else could be wrong, outside of a hardware problem.
You can burn an ISO using most any popular DVD burning software such as: http://infrarecorder.org/
To mount it without burning to a physical disc you can use this if you're on Windows 7: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38780
Create a CD image using some sort of burnig software (Infra Recorder is free and should be enough), containing all the files. Then, mount that created iso, and try to install it using this 'Disk'.
A second option is use Visual Subst to mount the folder with all the files as a separate CD Drive.
A third easy but 'unpolished' (because cave-man style sounds bad) method can be to simply throw all the files within the root folder of any of your HDDs (that is with no folder containing them), and then try to install it from that location. Although i do not recommend this method.
If the installer was coded to install from a CD/DVD any of those options should do the trick.
download and install Infra Recorder, run it - you should see this: http://i.imgur.com/AI7iBpn.png
on the bottom left corner, click on Write Image, a window will pop up and ask for your *.ISO, point it to the file
If you just put the .iso on a disc it won't work. An .iso is just an image of a CD, kinda like a .zip file. It has to be "unpacked". You'll need to use something like InfraRecorder to burn the image to disc.
Where are you running into the issue, exactly? There are some good programs out there that will do all the converting necessary and burn the CD for you.
If I recall correctly, Infrarecorder is decent: http://infrarecorder.org
One thing to remember, though, is that audio CDs only hold I think a maximum of 79 minutes of sound, so you will probably only be able to put 2 shows on a CD.
Now, some CD players have a data mp3 feature, meaning you can burn a data CD containing a bunch of mp3 files, which can be played, and this will allow you to put dozens of shows on one CD.
If you want some help, feel free to PM me, and I can step you through things. If you know the exact model of your CD player, that would make it easier to figure out the best options for you.
No need to torrent or pirate!
Office 2010 http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try/
Just enter your serial!
If you HAD to use the CD.....
Use Infrarecorder to create an ISO of the DVD then copy across using a flash drive. Windows 8 is AWESOME at handling ISO's. Just double click and it will mount it as if it's a real DVD in a drive and allow you to open it through file manager and install.
DISCLAIMER: Other ISO burning tools exist which may or may not perform better depending on other requirements. For straight ripping ISO's, this is an easy solution.
I Haven't used Nero in ages but it used to be really good back in the day. If you don't plan on burning many discs or ripping many movies, uninstall the whole suite and get yourself something much lighter like the free InfraRecorder
Get rid of kaspersky and get Microsoft Security Essentials
unless you use it, TeamViewer can go, too, it should probably free up some more resources for you.
Get rid of norton online backup if you don't use it, and probably the gateway one to. I'm not telling you not to make backups, quite the contrary, just make manual ones every now and then.
and finally, if that isn't for your printer, dump the epson drivers.
After all this, the machine will be tidier.
http://infrarecorder.org/ maybe give it a try?
or install the Desktop Experience Pack within Windows 2008 R2 http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/133.windows-server-2008-how-to-burn-a-cddvd-on-ws2k8-r2.aspx#Choice_A
For the first one, right click on the unzipped .exe file (M17xR3_A09_W74.exe) and choose "Run as Administrator". For the second one, from the instructions, "ISO image of production GTX560M Vbios. Burn image to CD and reboot system. Press F12 to choose CD/DVD drive. When prompted, press Y." If you don't have any burning software, download InfraRecorder or CDBurnXP.
Get InfraRecorder instead. It's open source, free, doesn't include extra stuff like that, and it's available as InfraRecorder Portable for use on USB drives and cloud drives.
CdburnerXP -- get it and create audio discs.
You'll only get about a dozen songs on a CD.
Of course this was what everyone did 10 years ago.
Easier ways to get your music in the car.
I found CDBurnerXP (watch out for the crap ware install) to work well. Set it to burn at a slower speed usually makes a difference (don't know why) you may also need to try and fail to see which discs work best for your player.
and CDBurnerXP is good if you need a free burning app.
You just burn it, pop it in the drive, and reboot. If it doesn't give you the option to boot from CD, you need to change a BIOS setting to allow you to boot off of CD.
You'll get a graphical user interface that is pretty easy to use and comparable to Windows and MacOSX. It should pick up the HD enclosure, see if it can access it.
CDBurnerXP, free and simple to use.
Imgburn is a good one for Windows, and it's free. It's ancient, I've been using it for over a decade, but it should still work with Windows 10 no problem. I haven't tested since updating (and now I'm mainly on Linux), but it was fine in Windows 8.1.
I do recommend only ripping discs at a max of 48x speed, and I usually do it at 24x or 32x. Faster spin introduces higher likelihood of errors, and above 48x you run a serious risk of disc wobble cracking the disc, or even shattering it.
http://www.imgburn.com/ is my go-to for burning disks (not that I've done it for a while). You can make a disk image, select how many times you want to burn it, and get it to eject the disk drive when it wants the next disk.
Usually CD/DVD burning software can also create .ISO image from disc. One quite popular is ImgBurn, but that of course requires downloading "a shady program" from the internet :)
ImgBurn is the last tool I used for this purpose. It hasn't been updated in a long time, but neither have those image formats, so it'll probably still work.
If not, check out this Wiki article, it should be able to point you to an application that can do what you want, probably for free.
PSX games can be ripped using ImgBurn. Just stick the CD in a computer with an optical drive, open up ImgBurn and select "read", select a file destination and format, and then click the CD icon at the bottom of the window. All there is to it.
Edit: BIN+CUE is the best format for PSX games. Audio may be messed up if you rip to an ISO.
I've never heard of a program that requires two disks to be inserted at the same time to work, but theoretically, two external drives shouldn't be treated any differently than two internal drives.
You might also want to try creating image files (an exact digital copy) of the disks with something free like ImgBurn which you can then mount as "virtual disks", which will show up like disk drives, but no need to actually keep your external drives plugged in. This isn't guaranteed to work though, because some disks have special copyright protections which can keep this from working.
Np, If you need any additional help feel free to pm me, i check my inbox like once every few days tho. All the info you need on freeMcboot is available via google, oh and i've had the best compatibility with Verbatim dvds. Basically just get a game iso, patch it with ESR disc patcher, imgburn it to a dvd, pop it in ya disc drive and press ESR to play. You can also add emulators and games for older systems with a little google-fu.
> I downloaded the media creation tool from Microsoft and tried to rip windows onto a CD.
Microsoft is quite happy for you to burn their ISO's to a CD for re installation.
> So with media creation tool, it doesn't burn it for me directly into the CD. Whether the CD is inserted or not, it doesn't do it for me. Instead it creates an ISO file that i found on my desktop. So i right clicked it and selected burn to disc.
For burning ISO's to disks I've always used ImgBurn
You also need to make sure the CD / DVD has enough space, you'll probably have to grab a DVD with 4GB space as ISO's are around that size.
It depends what you're trying to do. If you just want a disk that you can reinstall from see above, if not go ahead and create a system image (it will be big though) that is basically a snapshot of your computer right now and can be reverted to.
Hope this helps
It sounds like you burned a data DVD and have the image (iso) file on the DVD instead of burning the image on the DVD. You can use something like imgburn to burn the iso onto the DVD itself.
Swapping the HDDs will in all probabilities not work unless both the laptops have the same configuration. This is because the drivers needed for both laptops will be different. Here are the 4 options that you have -
Get hold of an external DVD drive and do the installation on your laptop.
Remove the DVD drive from your friend's laptop and connect it to your laptop. This will require you to open the two laptops and I would not recommend it if you have never opened a laptop before.
Create an ISO file from the DVD by connecting it to your friend's laptop and use this file to do the installation. You may however not be able to do so because of copy protection being used on the DVD. If you want to try it, you can use Imgburn to create the DVD image.
Connect both laptops to the same network and then access your friend's DVD drive to do the installation on your computer.
Laptops are not known for their quality of DVD drives, so it might just be that there is something not quite right with the disk that your laptop cannot read it.
What you can do is put it in your brothers computer and create an iso image of the disk using a program such as ImgBurn then copy that iso onto an external drive and copying it to your computer, then mount that iso on your computer using something like Virtual Clone Drive
you will need to extract the files from the .rar, then use a burning program, (I like Imgburn) to "burn" an iso file. You don't actually burn anything the program just makes an iso file.
Here are the filenames and corresponding MD5 checksums of the official x64 SP1 ISOs from MSDN:
- Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) English (With SP1)
X17-58997.iso
da319b5826162829c436306bebea7f0f
- Windows 7 Professional (x64) English (With SP1)
X17-59186.iso
ed15956fe33c13642a6d2cb2c7aa9749
- Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) English (With SP1)
X17-59465.iso
c9f7ecb768acb82daacf5030e14b271e
Sometimes you can find download sources (torrents and direct) just by Googling the checksums. Just be weary of malicious Javascript on dodgy warez sites and always ensure the checksum matches before you burn the ISO. A free program I recommend to generate SFVs on Windows is QuickSFV and I use ImgBurn for burning.
Note that the PowerISO free version is nagware that has some dumb restrictions. It also has its some of its own proprietary formats which are a bit annoying if you ever choose to stop using PowerISO.
If you want an actually free alternative, you'll need two different pieces of software, but it's worth it.
- Use VirtualCloneDrive for creating a virtual drive that can mount ISOs and other image files.
- Use ImgBurn for turning physical disks into ISOs and other image files. You can also use it to burn actual CDs and various other things.
Both are very full featured, great pieces of software.
Use https://rufus.akeo.ie/ to make the Windows 7 USB. Just copying the CD contents will not make the USB bootable. Use http://www.imgburn.com/ to create an ISO file from the DVD to use with Rufus. If unsure how to use just google it as there are plenty of guides.
Well you need a license key for Windows, a Windows .iso file. You can use a tool like imgburn to rip your DVD into a ISO file. If you don't have a DVD you can find various downloads of 'untouched' .iso files for Windows. /r/microsoftsoftwareswap usually has a bunch of links laying around for downloads to .ISO files.
Then you insert the USB stick and use a tool like Rufus to 'burn' the .iso file onto the USB stick.
Then you stick the USB into the PC you want to install Windows on and you boot from it (you can find boot options in the bios, set your usb stick as the first option) after that its the same as a DVD, follow the instructions.
"Ripping" the disc means copying the data to your hard drive in a format that the emulator can read (generally an ISO, which can be either loaded as a virtual disc, or in most cases, just loaded directly with the emulator).
Emulators don't generally work fantastically with the original discs because of the limits on read speeds. The PS1 read at 2x CD speed, or around 2.45 Mbits, or 300-ish kilobytes per second I think. By contrast, even the slowest SATA drive will read at 1.5 Gbits, or over 1570000 kilobytes (~150MB) per second.
For a more specific example, even on very fast hardware, a game with sensitive timing like Legend of Dragoon is near unplayable from the disc. In combat, the button timings will stutter and suffer slowdowns and speedups due to the disc reads. Likewise, something like Dance Dance Revolution will also be unplayable. However if you rip those discs to images (ISO, or BIN/CUE files), they're completely playable and run without issues.
So as a rule, emulators work better if you burn the disc to an image. This doesn't damage your disc, but it makes it no longer necessary to play, you can just keep the original disc as a backup.
IMGBurn is probably the simplest software I've ever used to make disc backups (ISOs). It's very straight forward to do.
I will second ImgBurn. If I were doing this, I would first create an image of the DVD (insert DVD, select "Create image file from disc" in ImgBurn), then use that to burn the rest of the DVDs (insert blank DVD, select "Write image file to disc"). This way you have a copy of the original DVD in a single file instead of folders. Just a matter of preference.
Since you mentioned copying to a computer and trying Handbrake, I'll say that Handbrake is good for ripping the video from a DVD to a format for watching on a computer (Although VLC and probably some others will open the iso file or VIDEO_TS folder directly) or other device, or for streaming online, etc. Using Handbrake can be fairly straightforward. Click "Source" and choose your ISO file or VIDEO_TS folder (again it's best not to go directly from a physical disc), fill in somewhere for the destination, and choose a preset on the right (I generally go with "High Profile"). In most cases, that's all you need to do. Just click "Start", and wait.
assuming they're not encrypted you can just copy the files off and then use any DVD burning software -- like CDBurnerXP - https://cdburnerxp.se/en/home
or create an image of the DVD and then make copies from that - use ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/
(both apps are available through ninite.com too)
CD/DVD's will deteriorate with time. Create an iso of those DVD's and then store them electronically. You can use imgburn to create the ISO files.
Store the DVD's in a cool dry place in a good quality DVD folder.
Rufus will take care of the whole thing, but requires you have an ISO disk image (I didn't realize this before).
The other program i linked, however, WiNTBootIC should accept the disk drive as the source of your windows installation.
The Microsoft tool that /u/Jeffbx linked works too, but it may require a large API download - I prefer the programs I mentioned. - I just tested "Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool" and it also requires an ISO image.
If you end up needing to make an ISO from your physical disk you can use imgburn, but try WiNToBootIC first.
honestly, I would do the following:
use imgburn to create an image of the disk http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download
The software is legit, but be careful about the installer asking about installing "extras". Just keep your eyes peeled and uncheck.
Make the CD image act as a CD to windows using virtualclonedrive http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html
Basically it adds another "cd drive" to your system, you can right click on a CD image and tell VCD to "mount it", and then your OS will see it exactly as if it were a CD in a cd-rom drive.
You get quicker load times, you don't have to rely on the emulator to have decent iso or cd-drive support, and you don't have to worry about wear and tear on your physical drive.
It's also useful for archival purposes if you have the space and want to be able to play a game without switching discs/digging around to find the disc.
I've used Virtual Clone Drive for years and never had a problem with it.
Try downloading imgburn and use it to create an ISO with all of those files as the root folder. Once that's done, you should be able to run it through the USB tool that was previously linked.
I believe so, if I understand what you're asking - download and install ImgBurn, then download the Padus .CDI File Mounter and extract the files directly into the ImgBurn installation directory.
Now when you run ImgBurn you can choose the option to "Write image file to disc" and browse for the CDI in the "Source" section (or drag and drop the CDI file onto the running application).
^ This here. If you made your own copy and the Windows 8 mounting is not working, use Daemon Tools and mount the ISO. Otherwise, try making a better image of the disk using ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/) or Alcohol 120 (http://www.alcohol-soft.com).
Downloading the ISO from the Internet can risk illegal actions. If you download any type of CD cracks or anything that circumvents any copyright protection, it can be consider illegal. Or if you reupload any of the image (seeding with torrents) it is illegal. You best and safest bet (both legally and for your computer) is to try to make a better image or a mounting tool, or buy a external optical drive, but no one wants to care those around.
Do you want to burn the video files as files (that you would open with whatever media player on your computer) or actually make a DVD that you can play with a DVD player attached to for example a TV?
If you only want to write the files as files, I recommend ImgBurn - the option "Write files/folders to disc" in the application is what you want.
If you want to play it on a DVD player you need to use something else. I haven't done this in ages and I can't remember what application I used, and since you are using XP you won't have access to some utilities available in later Windows versions. You could try Windows Movie Maker, it should be available on XP.
Regardless, there is free software available that will do this. Sorry that I can't give you more specific instructions.
> I have a CD-R.
This is not a DVD. If you want a DVD, a DVD-R is your best bet. A DVD-RW is also possible to use, but especially if you want a DVD playable in a DVD player I would go for a DVD-R.
Do you have to use Nero? You should try ImgBurn. It's free, and it works well for data cds.
After it's installed, on the top menu, go to Mode / Build.
In the options tab on the right side, choose the following.
Data Type: Mode1/2048 (You can try Mode2/Form1/2352, which if I remember right will let you burn 800 MB to a cdr, but you lose error correction)
File System: ISO9660
In the Advanced / Restrictions / ISO9660 tab, File/Folder Name Length should be set to Level 1 - 11 characters, 8.3 format
Now you should just need to drag your files /folders into the box on the left side, select your destination drive, and click the big button at the bottom left hand side of the screen (the one with the folder and the cd).
So you have the install disc? Do you have access to a desktop-PC or Laptop with an optical drive? If so, you could try this:
- Use IMGBURN to create an .iso image of the disc
- Copy the .iso to a USB thumbdrive
- Plug USB into your new laptop
- Mount the .iso using something like VirtualCLoneDrive
- Install!
use imgburn. It's the best free ISO tool out there.
Also, if you use the .cue file to mount the image on a virtual CD drive you can use imgburn to rip an .iso, effectively converting the .bin files to .iso format. I do it all the time.
How have you burned the iso file to the disk? Have you just copied it over? If so, it will not work. You need to burn the iso image. Use something like imgburn. Select the option of burn image to disk. You should be good to go.
Creating a bootable USB is a different process. Download something like Power ISO. Go to Tools > Create bootable USB drive. Point it to the downloaded ISO and follow the instructions.
If you are still unable to boot from CD or USB, in your BIOS, enable Legacy boot.
~~Have you set the boot order to be the DVD drive first in the BIOs?~~
Edit: Try burning the ISO using ImgBurn. That should work.
Edit2: Burn the original ISO you originally downloaded. Not the ISO created by the Media Creation Tool.
You can download XP SP3 from this microsoft link. You will need to burn the iso on a CD/DVD using an application like imgburn.
I would still recommend that you move out of XP asap.
That's the problem.
Download imgburn. Then select the option "Write image file to disk", point it to the W8.1 iso and burn it on the DVD. You should now be able to install the OS.
Edit: Use 8x speed to burn and not max speed. There are more chances of corruption while burning at max speed.
It will not boot with a .iso file, it must be extracted with a .iso burning program.
I use ImgBurn.
Edit: Launch ImgBurn and select Write image file to disc. Select your .iso file, insert blank disc, and select write button.
Just download that, and burn the ISO to a disk. Then go to boot options when you start your computer, and boot from the disk. As long as you have a product key, you should be fine. You can also use a flash drive to install windows.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/a/install-windows-7-usb.htm
The files and folders you're looking at are the contents of the PSP game itself. You'll want to turn them into an ISO in order to play it.
Instructions for Windows users: (this is only what I know since I don't own a Mac)
- Download and install ImgBurn.
- Run ImgBurn. In the Mode menu, select Build (Ctrl+Shift+B).
- Drop the downloaded files/folders into the big white space on the left.
- Just under where it says Test Mode, you'll see what looks like a green right arrow with a paper with a cd on it. Click that once. You should now see that right above the button, the Destination area has changed from a disc writer selection box, to a file selection box. Tell it where you want the file to be written to, and click the big Build button.
- It should take a few seconds or minutes to write the ISO file.
- Copy it to your PSP's ISO folder, and it should hopefully play.
Here's a page with pics of each part, for reference.
If you are okay with commercial products then I would recommend Slysoft's AnyDVD. Which is not itself a batch DVD copier, but a transparent DVD decryption program that strip DRM from DVDs in such a way that they can be copied and handled by any other DVD program, even if the program normally doesn't support commercial DRM protected DVDs.
Then after installing AnyDVD I would install ImgBurn which is one the the best free DVD burner / ripper programs out there and is the successor to DVD decrypter (made by the same company) but doesn't have the ability to natively decrypt protected dvds which is why you need AnyDVD.
I've done this a million times- please trust me.
Use THIS GUIDE with THIS SOFTWARE.
Works every time.
The error is related to corrupt media.
Best thing to do, if you have access to another computer, is to download and burn an ISO copy of Windows 8.1 (download links for the ISO files can be found here), (use imgburn to burn your ISO to a disc, unless you have an alternative software) then activate using the same product key supplied in the box for the 8.1 you bought.
The link above says Windows Enterprise, but it will automatically activate to whatever copy of Windows your license key is for.
i used to use this when i used windows. You can rip and image (as an .iso file) and then burn it to blank disks. The image/burn will be a btye for btye copy (which is really what you want).
Edit: You can share the .iso file too. Starting with windows 7 you can mount an iso and read it like you are reading the disk.
Can you explain how you boot an ISO from a harddrive when there is no OS installed?
As the hardware might not support booting from USB, finding a DVD and writing an ISO to it using imgBurn is often a good idea.
Then it is important that you change your BIOS settings to make your computer boot from the DVD, rather than from its primary hard drive.
Could it be a bitness problem (32-bit vs 64-bit?) If you could share your system specs (processor etc), we might get a better idea about what's going wrong.
Here is a list of available ISO files.
Burn the ISO to a DVD/CD using the excellent freeware program "ImgBurn". For an image file (the ISO file) 700 Mb or smaller, use a blank CD. Anything larger, use a blank DVD.
You want to "Write image file to disc". Put in the blank disc, close door, it'll queue up. Browse to the Image file, click on it...
CHANGE WRITE SPEED TO 4x!!!!! Burning a disc at "MAX" or as fast as possible is bad, but a 4x burn will work in pretty much any machine.
That should work.
If you don't have blank optical media, but do have a blank USB large enough to hold the ISO file, let us know.
Good luck!
Nero would work, or you can also try using imgburn though I'm not 100% sure if that can do it. Been a while since I've burned a DVD movie but hopefully you can find more specific steps through Google?