Dear friends, let's talk about how to copy music from a disk to a computer. Before moving on to this topic, you need to know that music on a disc can be recorded in several ways.
The first is recording mp3 files, like any other documents. With this method, there are no problems with copying music to your computer. Simply open the disk on your computer, select the files and copy them to the desired folder on your computer. Everything is very simple.
The second method is to record music onto an audio CD with copy protection. Such discs usually contain no more than 20 songs in good quality. Songs from such a disc cannot simply be selected and copied; only the shortcuts will be copied. That is, such songs will not be listened to in the future. Therefore, next we will talk about how to copy a CD to a computer.
We install the disk in the drive and start it. To do this, go to “My Computer” - “Devices with Removable Storage” and double-click on the disk icon.
The disc will start in Windows Media Player. In the upper right corner, click on the “Switch to library” icon. Let's go to the library.
In the window that opens, you can change the parameters of the copied files from the disk, namely:
- specify the folder to which the files will be copied;
- select the format of the copied files, for example mp3, WMA, WAV;
- change the quality of audio tracks, the better the quality, the larger the size of the audio file.
After making changes, click the “Apply” button and close the window.
We return to the library again and in the top menu click “Copy to CD”. Here you can select the tracks that you want to copy or copy everything.
Now we get to the “CD Copy Options”. Here you need to select the two lower positions and click the “OK” button.
The copying process will be displayed in the library as a green bar opposite the track. The copying speed depends on the selected quality of music files.
In this way, you can copy music from a disk to a computer in Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8 without installing additional programs, but using the operating system itself.
Programs for copying music
In addition to the method described above, there are many free programs with which you can easily transfer music from a disk to a computer. Let's look at the most popular ones.
Accord CD Ripper Free is a free program for copying audio CDs to MP3 or WAV files. The program itself has an English interface, but the code is quite simple.
— free converter of audio and video files. To record audio files from an CD, just insert the disc into the drive and select “Audio” in the left sidebar, then select the format to which you want to convert the files. We make additional settings and copy. Let's enjoy the music.
- free converter of audio tracks from a CD to MP3, OGG, AAC, WMA or WAV (lossless audio) format.
As we see, there are many options, choose the one that suits you best and get to work!
Hi all! Today is an interesting topic, how to burn a disc to a flash drive! In general we read)
How to transfer from disk to flash drive?
Sometimes I look at the site’s statistics and see what people are interested in. I have a popular topic, and usually people are looking for how to burn an image to a flash drive, and then I see a request: how to burn a disk to a flash drive... To be honest, the request sounds strange, but when I looked at how many people are trying to find how I do it, I was a little surprised, they thousands... Well, I write topics on the site that are either interesting to people, or that I need for notes) Well, here, of course, is the first option and I hope this topic will be useful to many who are looking for how to burn a disc to a flash drive 🙂
At first I also thought whether such a program had really been written, but no, I couldn’t even find it on foreign sites, it wouldn’t be safe anyway)
1. First we make a disk image
I haven’t written an article about the UltraISO program yet, but now the time has come, I just have a portable version.
Launch it, insert the disc into the CD-DVD-ROM and select create a CD image.
Now we select your flash drive, format it if necessary, but when recording, the program itself will format the flash drive and click write.
All! Myth how to burn a disc to a flash drive destroyed :)
This article will discuss how, by reprogramming (“flashing”) the control controller of a flash memory module (“flash drive”), force any computer to which such a flash drive is connected to perceive it not as a standard USB drive, but as an external CD/DVD drive with the CD the user needs “inserted” into it.
Copyright notice
To be honest, at first I didn’t want to include this section in my article at all. However, after some thought, I decided to do it. Why? Well, firstly, this is the fashion now ;-) Secondly, I thought that it would really be nice to familiarize readers in advance with the principles that I adhered to when writing this article, in order to avoid possible misunderstandings in the future.
So, the first principle is the author's disclaimer. This does not mean at all that the information presented in the article was taken “out of thin air” and has never been verified by anyone. Just the opposite - I personally, using the method I outlined here, “reflashed” at least two dozen flash drives, and all operations, except for one single time, were completed successfully. Speaking of disclaimer, I only draw your attention to the fact that due to such objective and in no way controllable by me factors as: a huge variety of models and modifications of flash drives, possible errors in the software used, various hardware and software configurations of computers and no less different levels of user training, everything that works fine on my computer may not work on yours. Additionally, I would like to note that the method I describe is not standard and pre-provided for their products by manufacturers of flash memory modules, therefore All operations described in this article are performed at your own peril and risk.. Remember this! If, as a result of performing the manipulations described below, you suffer any material and/or moral damage, please address all claims only to yourself. ABOUT possible I warned you about the risk of further actions. If you do not find yourself ready to act on such conditions, then simply do not try to reproduce them.
The second principle is the principle of independence. In my article I provide links to Internet pages where you can download this or that software that we need for our work. So, I warn you in advance that I have nothing to do with the owners of these pages, much less with the developers of the software posted on them. Using the programs indicated in the article, I myself am in exactly the same position as you, my dear readers. Thus, if by the time my article is published, the specified software is not located on the specified links, or it is infected with viruses, or damages your computer in any way - again, all complaints should be addressed either to the authors of the resources or to the program developers (if, of course, you manage to find them), or to yourself.
And one last thing. Since I strongly doubt that the topic of my article will interest novice computer users, I initially count on a trained reader. Therefore, I will try to present those aspects that are directly related to the topic of the article in the most understandable and detailed language, but I will not pay attention (except in special cases) to those actions that are part of normal computer work. That is, for example, how to launch the “task manager” (and what it is in general), where the “address bar” is located in the browser (and why it is even needed), you, dear readers, should already know. If you (suddenly!) don’t know this, then it’s clearly premature for you to read my article - except as information for “general development” to know that “this also happens.”
Why is this necessary, or why are we not looking for easy ways?
To answer this question, we will have to start from afar.
As is known, in the period lasting approximately from the mid-90s to the mid-2000s, the main carriers of more or less significant amounts of information were optical compact discs - first CD discs with a capacity of up to several hundred megabytes appeared, then they were slowly replaced various modifications of more “advanced” DVDs with a capacity of up to several gigabytes. At present, despite their greatly weakened positions, CDs have not yet completely lost their importance (at least in such areas as, for example, the sale of “boxed” software).
Around the mid-2000s, CDs, which had previously almost reigned supreme in the field of data transfer, had serious competitors - storage media based on flash memory (colloquially referred to as “flash drives”). By the way, the first models of flash drives for the “general public” were released back in 2000, and the many-year delay before their widespread distribution is explained solely by the small volume and high cost of producing the first production samples. However, from the very beginning, flash memory technology had such obvious advantages over traditional methods of storing information that it was only a matter of time before bringing certain specific parameters to perfection.
Despite the fact that modern flash memory modules are superior to conventional CDs in almost all comparable parameters (volume, speed characteristics, compactness), the vast majority of flash memory drives have one very serious drawback - security. Or, more precisely, the lack thereof. An interesting, but understandable, fact is that the viral “stock” transmitted through storage media existed at a small but stable level until the mid-90s (during the era of floppy disks) and practically disappeared by the mid-2000s, since The widespread use of flash drives is developing at an unprecedented pace. The answer lies in the fact that optical discs, due to their special technology for recording information, require special software. We should not forget that 100% of “branded” disks generally belong to the “...-ROM” category, that is, they are “read-only” devices, writing to which is impossible in principle. Until CDs had a viable alternative, both users and manufacturers were forced to put up with the inherent recording difficulties of optical discs. But at the same time, it was precisely these difficulties that were an almost insurmountable obstacle for viruses! Virus writers would have to build into each of their “creations” a full-fledged program for writing optical discs, which would immediately negate such important characteristics for viruses as secrecy, speed and small volume. Apparently, keeping in mind the problems so typical for optical disks, the developers of flash memory modules decided to make life easier for end users. And viruses. Since a flash drive, like a floppy disk and a hard drive, does not require any third-party software to record information and any operations can be performed through standard Windows Explorer, all barriers to viruses that prevent them from penetrating to a flash drive and back have disappeared. How popular this type of media is now, you can imagine the level of interest in them on the part of virus authors and the approximate scale of the epidemic. to plug flash drive to the infected computer so that it can immediately take up residence on it someone(I had to deal with viruses that automatically scanned USB ports for the presence of storage devices and, if any were found, immediately wrote a copy of themselves to them or carried out some destructive actions). A few years ago, it was still possible to find models of flash drives on sale with a special switch on the case that blocked the ability to write to a flash drive (although there were very few such models at that time), however, unfortunately, nowadays such flash drives are almost never found. The reason for the refusal by manufacturers to such an inexpensive but extremely useful improvement is not known to me. Judging by some reviews posted on the Internet, such microswitches have a short mechanical life and fail quite quickly, leaving the flash drive in read-only mode, which causes a storm of indignation from users who are forced to buy a new flash drive ahead of schedule.
For ordinary users, such a microswitch on a flash drive may indeed be unnecessary - it is enough to have a more or less adequate antivirus on the computer... But what to do unusual users - administrators, repair engineers, information recovery specialists? After all, they often have to work with a completely unfamiliar computer, in conditions where it starts and works at all! No self-respecting surgeon would perform an operation with a dirty, unsterile instrument. In this sense, the work of a doctor and a professional computer scientist has much in common - in both cases, sterility is extremely important. You can, of course, take a “step back” and write the entire necessary set of programs onto the good old optical discs of the “...-R” modification, but...
Firstly, a complete set of professional programs for restoring a computer’s functionality, as a rule, has a volume significantly larger than the capacity of one disk, so you will have to carry with you not just one, but a whole set of disks, which, you see, is not good...
Secondly, optical disks, which serve as “workhorses”, constantly transported whenever, wherever and in anything, deteriorate quite quickly, becoming dusty and covered with scratches.
Thirdly, even the most “advanced” modifications of DVDs provide very mediocre, by modern standards, reading speed. It happens that loading the system from such a resuscitation disk takes up to 10-15 minutes. I don’t argue that some people will agree to wait 10 or 15 minutes, or even a whole hour - it would be just something to wait for, but, you see, if there is an opportunity to significantly increase the productivity of their work, it would be a sin not to take advantage of this opportunity.
Fourthly, such a once standard and mandatory device as a DVD drive is increasingly becoming persona non grata in a modern computer; it has not been in laptop computers “from birth”, and I won’t say anything about Blu-Ray drives at all.. At the same time, not only are almost all types of computers equipped with USB ports, but the number of these useful ports is steadily growing. So you may well encounter a situation where you only have a set of CDs on hand, and the computer being restored has only a free USB port instead of the expected drive.
In general, I really don’t want to give up the now familiar flash drives in favor of optical disks! “But there’s no need! - an experienced user will say. “Isn’t the Internet filled with programs that allow you to write an “image” of the desired disk to a flash drive?” And he will be right... Partly. Most of these programs - DirectGRUB, WinSetupFromUSB, WinToFlash, UnetBootIn, ROSAImageWriter - and dozens of others like them really do a good job, but, firstly, they do not give the user “freedom of maneuver”, clearly “tying” him to the “image” of this or that other type; and secondly, despite the opportunity to boot from a flash drive processed by them, your information remains completely unprotected. That is, the flash drive can still be easily formatted, delete some files from it, or, conversely, add some information.
However, there is a method that allows you to write absolute contents to a flash drive. any the disk you need with the ability to boot from this flash drive, and its contents will be reliably protected from “invasion” - creating a CD-ROM (DVD-ISO) partition on a flash drive and recording an “image” of the desired disk into it.
Why is “reflashing” possible?
This becomes possible because the manufacturers of controllers for flash drives themselves initially include in their products the ability to work in various modes, including the mode of emulation (simulating) an external CD/DVD drive. Thus, manufacturers leave themselves a “loophole” to create various cunning “branded” flash drives. After some time, information about this one way or another becomes available to the general public, and after another period of time, versions of “proprietary” utilities appear on the Internet that make it possible to switch the controller mode in practice.
What is needed for “reflashing”?
To successfully complete this interesting procedure we will need:
- a computer running Windows XP or later with Internet access;
- a flash drive equipped with a controller that has a CD-ROM emulation function;
- flashing program;
- actually, the “firmware” itself (in 99% of cases it is supplied with the program);
- ISO image of the desired disk;
- any instructions (for example, this article);
- approximately one hour of free time;
- straight arms and crooked brains (but in no case vice versa! ;-))
As I already said, you must know what an ISO image is and have it available (download from the Internet, “remove” it from an existing optical disk, “assemble” it yourself). If you don’t know what it is and can’t download/remove/build an ISO image, then, sorry, I won’t describe this procedure here for you personally, since the topic is so vast and multifaceted that it deserves a separate article. As a last resort, you can find all the necessary information on the Internet. In the future, I will no longer return to this issue, and I will assume that you have the necessary “image”.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the most difficult stage is, oddly enough, the preparatory stage. The most difficult thing is to choose a mutually suitable “flash drive - program” pair. If you managed to pick such a pair, then with a 99% probability everything that follows will end successfully.
Why is this so difficult to do? Yes, simply because nowhere to get information. Since “reflashing” the controller is not included in the concept of “regular work” with a flash drive, manufacturers do not consider it necessary to indicate such uninteresting details (why do you need it, poor things?!? ;-)). Moreover, it is enough to mentally put yourself in the place of a large manufacturer of flash drives to understand that one should not even hope for any, so to speak, “internal constancy” of products - he (the manufacturer) produces them in millions of pieces, and at the same time he must take care of continuous supply of them to the market. It follows from this that he has dozens of contracts with various companies producing controllers, memory chips and other electronic “stuffing”. Today, one specific model of flash drive is produced on the A-001 controller, in a month the same model (!), in exactly the same case (!) will be produced with the B-002 controller, and in another six months, when the previous controller supplier has problems with production, another company will take over the baton, offering its new Yo-030 controller. Of course, sooner or later service utilities appear on the Internet even for the newest types of controllers, but how much time will pass between the start of sales of flash drives on this controller and the appearance on the Internet of a suitable utility for it, only God and Chinese computer pirates know;-)
This leads to three possible strategies for our search:
- borrow each flash drive purchased by a friend, colleague, or issued at work by the supply department for an hour, and check it with a special program (I’ll tell you which one below). The flash drive will not suffer from this and all information on it will remain safe and sound. If we see that the controller is exactly the one we need, we immediately find out from a friend/colleague/supplier where the flash drive was purchased and go there to buy the same one for ourselves.
- search for the information we are interested in on the Internet (for example, using the phrase “controller + “flash drive model”). Sometimes people on specialized forums, when describing a particular flash drive, also indicate the controller model. Here, however, you should be careful and look at the publication date - if the description of the flash drive you found is older than six months, then there is a high probability that even if you buy such a flash drive, you will be very upset, because it will be on a completely different controller.
- from time to time buy one flash drive you like, checking it for the presence of the desired controller and, then, act according to point 1. The obvious disadvantages of this method are the large expenditure of time and money.
The most preferable for beginning sewing mechanics... oh, no - programmers, are flash drives on SMI controllers. Phison controllers are a little more complicated to flash, but in general, it’s also not bad, but it’s better not to mess with Alcor and SSS controllers unless absolutely necessary. With regard to flash drive brands, the products of greatest interest to us are “A-Data” and “Apacer” (most), “Kingston” and “Transcend” (minor).
If you fundamentally do not want to waste time and money searching for the desired flash drive model, but want to “reflash” the one you already have at all costs, try first looking for a suitable “flashing” program here: and here:. The site listed first - usbdev.ru - contains a more complete and detailed file archive, and the likelihood of finding the latest version of the desired program is much higher here. At the same time, its “completeness” and richness of information also have a downside - for a beginner, as a rule, it is very difficult to decide which software from the ones available on the site he really needs. The site listed second - flashboot.ru - has a simpler structure and a rather nice appearance, but it is not a fact that here, firstly, you will be able to find the program you need, and secondly, that this program will be the latest. Also, when selecting the right software, you should not forget that both of these sites are dedicated to USB drives at all, therefore, programs that make it possible to “turn” flash drives into CD/DVD-ROM are not specially separated or sorted by anyone, getting lost in the general mass of their colleagues designed to restore the functionality of flash drives, monitor, diagnose media, low-level formatting, provide loading from a flash drive and other things.
Demonstration equipment
As a “guinea pig” I chose an eight-gigabyte flash drive “Transcend JetFlash 520S”. Why did I choose this particular flash drive? It's simple:
- Since I decided to combine useful with... useful - to write this article and create a new repair flash drive-DVD-ROM for my needs, I first of all paid attention to the type of case. In this model of flash drive, all the electronic filling is placed in a sealed all-metal case, the connector is made integral with the case, which, you see, is important for a “workhorse” that you constantly have to carry with you. No static discharges, lost or forgotten caps, bent connectors - even protected from moisture penetration (although I haven’t personally checked ;-)).
- The ISO image I have, which I was going to “upload” to a flash drive, occupies a volume of approximately 3.3 gigabytes, so, of course, I could get by with a four-gigabyte one, but flash drives with a capacity of less than 8 gigabytes do not exist in this design .
- and, finally, the most important thing - I managed to find information that this flash drive model is currently being produced based on one of the modifications of the “SMI” controller - just what you need!
The flash drive comes in a small cardboard box, inside of which there are: brief instructions, an insert with advertising information and a transparent blister, which, in turn, contains the flash drive itself and the branded “Transcend” strap (cute, but extremely short, clearly intended to increase convenience manipulations with a flash drive, but not for carrying):
The flash drive itself is not full-size, but not miniature either - overall dimensions (length*width*thickness in millimeters): 37*12*4.5. In general, “slender” ;-)
Controller Model Definition
First of all, let's create a working folder in the root of one of the local drives of your computer, in which we will place all the programs we need for flashing. You can rename the newly created folder to your liking, but keep in mind that the name of this folder should not contain spaces or Russian letters. As an example, I will use the "USBreFLASH" folder on the local "C" drive of my computer. It wouldn’t hurt to immediately add this folder to the exceptions of your antivirus, since, for example, my vigilant “watchman” “Dr.Web”er, when I first accessed this folder, moved about a third of the program modules to “Quarantine”, considering them “ potentially dangerous" and "possibly infected".
After we have decided on the working folder, we launch the browser available on the system (in my case, Mozilla Firefox) and type the following in the address bar: . On the page that opens, click on the “Download program” link located below (2). The archive with the program offered for downloading takes up approximately 3 megabytes; after unpacking, the folder with the program will take up a little more space - about 4.5 megabytes.
After that, go to the downloads folder (its location depends on your browser settings), find the “usbflashinfo” archive and, using any archiver available on the system, unpack it into the previously created “USBreFLASH” folder. As a result, a folder of the same name “usbflashinfo” and a text file “File_id.diz” containing a brief description of the program version appear in our working folder. Since this file is not needed for the program to work and is only an eyesore, we delete it with a clear conscience.
Next, go to the “usbflashinfo” subdirectory and launch the only exe file “GetFlashInfo.exe” from there. A program window opens with a warning text and a single button “Get information about the flash drive” (see figure):
We connect the flash drive we have at our disposal to a free USB port.
Please read the warning carefully before taking further action! The program shows it to you every time you start it, and I will additionally remind you here. The main condition for the successful and safe completion of the diagnostic procedure is no access to the flash drive, that is, before starting and during the diagnostic process itself, you should not read or write anything from or to a flash drive. Otherwise (very nasty! :-)) when you click on the “Get information about the flash drive” button, the program will roughly “cut off” everyone else’s access to the flash drive, and what will happen after that with the data on the flash drive (if it is there, of course) exist), no one knows. As you yourself understand, this is especially important if the flash drive being tested is not yours, and, in addition, is filled with information that is important for its real owner, the safety of which you have no right to risk. Please note that some antiviruses (Kaspersky and others like it), acting “by default”, rush to check the newly inserted flash drive with all their might, so it is better to either wait for this process to complete, or, if the information on the flash drive is very a lot and the scan is delayed, interrupt it through the antivirus menu.
So, we make sure that no one or nothing is working with the flash drive at the moment, and click the “Get information about the flash drive” button. If everything is in order with the flash drive and nothing prevented the diagnostic program from completing its work to the end, the main window of the program will be filled with the data obtained as a result of polling the flash drive. The second line from the top will indicate the model of the controller on which the experimental flash drive is assembled (in this case, “Silicon Motion SM3257 ENBA”):
For the future, you should keep in mind that the developers of the usbflashinfo program are trying to “keep up” with the times, so you may well encounter a situation where a program downloaded several months ago, upon subsequent launch, refuses to work and asks you to download an updated version - there is no need to worry or be afraid of this, the program developers do not require money from you (at least for now ;-)), so you should not neglect the update O it.
Search for service utility
So, we were able to determine the specific model of the controller on which our flash drive is assembled. Now is the time to start looking for a suitable flashing program. I hope you haven’t forgotten the address of this wonderful site - ? As I already said, when visiting this site you can easily get lost among the abundance of software presented on it, so I’ll give you a hint - the main service utility for working with flash drives on SMI controllers is called “SMI MPTool”. Despite the same name, this program exists in many versions and modifications, differing in support for certain models of controllers and memory chips. Therefore, you need to not just download the latest version, but make sure that it supports your particular controller model.
To find the version of the program we need, we again launch the browser available on the system and type in the address bar: :
Slowly “scrolling” the page that opens, pay attention to the models of supported controllers indicated in square brackets to the right of the name and version number of the production utilities. Let me remind you that in this case we are interested in the line containing . After the required line is found, download this version of the utility by clicking on the word “download” in the found line:
We find among the downloads a freshly downloaded archive with a service utility and, using any archiver available in the system, unpack it into the previously created “USBreFLASH” folder. After unpacking, a subdirectory “smi_mptool_v.2.5.27_v8_m1004_3257enba” with program files and a text file “readme.txt” with a link to the source site appear in our working folder. Since the “readme.txt” file does not have any practical value, we simply delete it so as not to clutter up the working folder.
In principle, you can stop at this stage, but despite the fact that the name of the folder with the program is “correct” from the point of view of the program itself (that is, it does not contain spaces or Cyrillic characters), I would advise, for convenience, to shorten the name of the folder somewhat , to, for example, this: “smi_mptool_3257enba”. I repeat - the flasher program will launch perfectly and will work even without renaming the folder in which it is stored, so the purpose of renaming is just to make it a little easier for the user to navigate the working folder.
Editing the configuration file
At first I wanted to call this section “ Creation configuration file", however, I remembered that the configuration file itself, although in a form unsuitable for our purpose, was already present in the folder with the service program, so I called the section " Edit configuration file."
So what kind of file is this, why is it needed and, most importantly, how to edit it?
The configuration file is a simple text file called “default.ini” and contains instructions for the firmware program to in what way you need to “flash” the flash drive controller. Since the configuration file, despite the unusual (in the eyes of a non-specialist) extension “.ini”, as already mentioned, is a regular text file, it can be edited even using the standard Windows text editor “Notepad”. However, the lesson this is thankless and a bit complicated for beginners, so we will make changes to the configuration file directly through the interface of the “flashing” program, which, exclusively for this purpose, has a special button (well done, Chinese!) In general, the need to edit it is explained by the fact that , that the configuration file that comes with the service utility is intended, first of all, to restore the functionality of conventional flash drives, and therefore does not provide any opportunity to “turn” a standard flash drive into a “default” CD/DVD drive.
To make the changes we need to the configuration file, go to the folder with the service utility - “smi_mptool_3257enba” - and run the only executable file from there - “sm32Xtest_V27-8.exe”:
The main window of the service utility opens in front of us, in which we need to sequentially:
- click the “Setting” button at the right edge of the program window (1);
- in the password entry window that opens, type: “320” ( without quotes!) (2);
- Confirm your entry by pressing the “OK” button (3):
If you leave the password field empty or enter any combination of letters and numbers there, the program will still give you the opportunity to view the current settings, but will not allow you to edit them - keep this in mind. After we have entered the correct password to be able to change the settings, a window will open in which we will be asked to select a configuration file (2) from those already available in the program folder (1) or specify the path to the configuration file (if you saved it somewhere “outside”), confirming the selection by pressing the “OK” button (3):
There is nothing stopping you from creating several different configuration files over time so that you can choose the one most suitable for your specific task before starting work. The program, immediately after launch, “by default” works with the “default.ini” file located in the program folder, so this file should not be renamed or deleted. It should be noted here that the mechanism for changing configuration files in the SMI MPTool program is not implemented very well. If you need to change the “default” configuration file to some other one, you will need to open this “other” file for editing in exactly the same way as described above, but do not make any changes and just click on the “OK” button . After this, the program will “think” for a few seconds, and when it “comes to its senses,” the file you selected will be installed as a working file. You can determine which configuration file is currently in use by looking at the title of the window of the running program, in the center of which, delimited on both sides by continuous underscore characters, the name of the currently active configuration file will be indicated, for example: “___default.ini___”. It should be remembered that when saving or creating configuration files, they are subject to exactly the same requirements as those imposed on the program itself - the file name ( and all the way to it!) should be as short as possible and should not contain spaces or characters from the Russian alphabet.
Since the topic of creating multiple configuration files, as well as clarifying the differences between them, is beyond the scope of this article, I will not dwell on this in detail, but will simply describe what changes should be made to the existing configuration file “default.ini” in order to After “reflashing” the controller, the flash drive began to be defined as a CD/DVD drive. After you have completed all the previous steps and opened the “default.ini” file for editing, a window with many settings will appear before your eyes (see figure):
All the settings contained in the first tab of the window, called “Main Flow Setting” (“my main settings”) - and we are only interested in this one tab for now - can be divided into five groups:
- extended USB device identifiers (1);
- abbreviated USB device identifiers (2);
- USB device type (3);
- USB device indication (4);
- the actual “flashing” settings (5).
From the first group of settings we will need only two lines - “Vendor Str” (“Vendor Name”) and “Product Str” (“Product Name”). In principle, the information they contain only affects the “name” under which your flash drive, after flashing, will appear in the Windows Explorer window and in the BIOS boot menu. The full “name” of the flash drive will be displayed as: “manufacturer name” space “product name” . When filling out these fields, Latin letters, numbers and even a space character are acceptable. Since I am creating a bootable flash drive in the form of a CD/DVD drive to repair broken computers, the ISO image that I plan to “upload” to the flash drive is called “Repair”. Accordingly, it will be more convenient for me if my repair flash drive is designated as “REPAIR USB DISK”. This means that in the “Vendor Str” field I need to enter the word “REPAIR” (without quotes), and leave the “Product Str” field as is. Of course, you can change the contents of these fields to your liking, for example, by immortalizing your name in the name of the flash drive: “ETO SDELAL VOVA” ;-)
In the second group of settings, we just need to duplicate the manufacturer name and product name in exactly the same form as you entered it earlier. In the same group there is a “switch” for the current consumed by the flash drive “USB Power”, but I would not advise you to use it, and here’s why. The real, “physical” current consumed by a flash drive depends directly on the design features of the flash drive itself and cannot be changed in any way by software. The value determined by this “sort of switch” only tells the system how powerful the equipment is connected and whether it is possible to find an opportunity to “save” on its power supply. It follows that it is quite possible that a flash drive physically consumes, say, 300 mA, and you manually set the value to 200 mA, as a result of which the system, when connecting the flash drive, will consider that it “has the right” to reduce the current to the specified 200 mA, and The flash drive, of course, will stop working. Therefore, it is better not to win any crumbs, but to leave here the standard value of 500 mA, which is more than enough for the vast majority of flash drive models.
In the third group, we are interested in the “Disk Type” and “Disk Label” fields. For our purpose, the “Disk Type” field should be set to “USB-ZIP”; and in the “Disk Label” field you must repeat (yes, for the third time!) what you indicated in the “Product Str” (from the first group) and “Product” (from the second group) fields ).
The fourth group of settings is responsible for changing the light indication of the flash drive, and nothing needs to be changed here.
Finally, the fifth group of settings is of greatest interest to us. Here are the parameters directly related to the “flashing” process:
- "Boot Blk" - boot sector. By default, the checkbox is checked, but the file is not selected. It doesn't matter to us.
- “Erase Info” - erase all information. By default there is no checkbox. It doesn’t matter to us, since when “flashing” all the information on the flash drive will be lost in any case.
- "Pretest" - " pre accumulative test" This refers to a test of flash drive memory cells. By default, the “daw” is checked, the “Erase Good Block Only” option is selected (“to erase only good blocks”). Flash drives, like hard drives, undergo full memory testing during manufacturing, as a result of which unstable memory blocks are identified and marked in a special way to prevent their further use. If the “Erase Good Block Only” method is selected, then the flash drive controller does not overwrite the table of “bad” blocks created at the factory and tests only those blocks that were marked as “good”. Some older types of controllers “did not know how” to implement this method in practice, therefore, if problems arise during “flashing”, you can change the value of this parameter to “Erase All Block”. This will slow down the flashing process, but may help if problems arise.
- “Write CID” - “a method of recording information.” By default, the “daw” is checked, “TSOP Standard Type” is selected as the method, which is standard for all modern flash drives and does not require replacement with any other method.
- “Download ISP” - “download a specific type of firmware.” By default, the checkbox is checked, but the file is not selected. The point does not make much sense - if the program “recognizes” the connected flash drive, then it will select the appropriate type of “firmware”; if not, then selecting something manually in our particular case is pointless, since you still won’t really “flash” the flash drive.
- “Copy Test” - perform a preliminary test of copying information to a flash drive. By default, the “daw” is checked, the amount of information to be copied is selected in the amount of 2% of the capacity of the flash drive. For us, this item does not play a special role - in order to once again verify the quality of the flash drive, you can leave it turned on; To speed up the flashing process, you can disable it.
- “Make Auto Run” - “create an autorun”. The name is not entirely accurate, since it is precisely the inclusion of this item (checked) that gives us the opportunity to load an ISO image of the desired disk onto a flash drive during flashing. After the item becomes active, a field to enter the path to the ISO image opens to the right of it. In my case, this path looks like this: “D:\ISO\REPAIR.ISO”. Please note that the path to the image, as well as the name of the image itself, must be as short as possible, without Cyrillic characters and spaces! Activating the “CDROM Only” sub-item enables a mode in which the free space remaining on the flash drive after recording the image is blocked (until subsequent flashing) and becomes unavailable for use. Deactivating this sub-item, accordingly, allows you to use the remaining free space as a regular removable disk, that is, one physical flash drive will be detected by the system as a composite device of an external CD/DVD drive and a regular flash drive. On my own behalf, I would like to add that, despite the seeming tempting of this method, which consists in the fact that you are allowed to use the entire capacity of a honestly paid flash drive, this method is fraught with problems in the future, since booting through the BIOS from such a “composite” flash drive can be far from all computers. Personally, I’m willing to sacrifice the remaining half of the flash drive’s capacity to ensure maximum compatibility, so I’ll enable this option. If you nevertheless chose the option with a “composite” device, then by checking the checkboxes on the checkboxes located below, you can immediately set the formatting mode for the remaining capacity of the flash drive and select the file system type.
- "Preload" - "pre-load". By default, there is no checkbox and this item is inactive. We don't need to change its state. Activating this item involves simply writing some of your data to a flash drive during the “flashing” process - in much the same way as you do using a regular Windows Explorer. Of course, such data loading is only possible if you Not create a CD-ROM, or at least leave free space on the flash drive (see previous paragraph). The question is, why add this option to the settings? What, after “reflashing” the flash drive, it will be impossible to write data in the “usual” way? Of course it is possible. But only they will not be protected from change. That is why the program developers added this item and the next one to the settings, which is called...
- “Disk Read Only” - “read-only disk”. By default, there is no checkbox. In relation to our task, it does not play a special role, since the CD/DVD disk obtained after flashing a flash drive, even with the “Disk Read Only” parameter inactive, will still be “read-only”. But if you do not create a partition on a CD-ROM flash drive or plan to write some arbitrary information to the remaining space, activating this item will help you protect it from unauthorized changes.
- “Test Result LED Flash” - “checking the results.” The default is "daw". It is advisable to leave this item active to once again make sure that the “flashing” process was completed properly.
As a result of all the ordeals with the settings, you should get something like the following (here the items that I considered necessary to change are highlighted in red; of course, in your particular case, the settings may differ from mine):
After all the necessary changes have been made, we must save the configuration file. To do this, click on the “Save As” button located at the right edge of the bottom edge of the settings window (1), then in the standard window that opens, select the existing “default.ini” file (2) and click on the “OK” button (3) :
Let me remind you that if for some reason you do not want to “spoil” the original “default.ini” file, then you can save it under a different name, for example “forcdrom.ini”. If you decide to overwrite the existing configuration file, then after clicking on the “OK” button, another window will open in front of you, in which you will be asked to confirm the replacement of the file. In any of these cases, after you complete the described actions, the settings selection window will close, and the program will automatically switch to working with the updated configuration file (in case of creating a new configuration file - before restarting).
After the configuration file has been properly edited, you can proceed directly to the “flashing” process.
“Reflashing” the flash drive controller
Before starting the “flashing” (or even better, before connecting a flash drive), it is highly advisable to pause the antivirus. Yes, yes, I, of course, remember that you have already added our working folder to the antivirus exceptions, however, do not forget that in the process of “flashing” the service utility will have to go “outside” - to where the one specified in the settings is stored file-image, and braking by an anti-virus monitor the flow of data “flowing” from one disk to another is fraught with the occurrence of the most unexpected errors. All other application programs that are not related to the flashing process should also be terminated. Additionally, I note that it is very rare and not on all computers, but, nevertheless, it happens that the energy saving functions of the monitor, hard drives, motherboard, forgotten by the user and activated at the wrong time during the “flashing” process, as well as turning on the screensaver, lead to to the impossibility of its correct completion. Therefore, instead of taking risks and checking in practice with a result unpredictable for a flash drive whether you have the “right” computer, I would advise you to temporarily disable all energy saving functions for the above devices, and either turn off the screensaver for a while or set a longer interval activation - at least one hour. During this time, firstly, you will take some actions in any case; secondly, it will become clear how great the chances of success of our event are.
After the antivirus program is suspended, the energy-saving functions of the hardware are disabled, and the time before the screen saver is activated is increased, insert a suitable flash drive into a free USB port:
We launch the flasher program. If your computer has the Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 operating system installed, then use the “Run as Administrator” function. Since I have good old Windows XP, I do without such problems and simply launch the program file for execution. The main window of the service utility opens before us:
First of all, use the mouse to click the “Scan USB” button, located at the right edge of the program window, in the middle (1). The same effect can be achieved by simply pressing the “F5” key on the keyboard. If at the moment you press a button - on-screen or keyboard - it makes no difference, a suitable flash drive is connected to the computer and nothing interferes with the program’s operation, the following changes will occur in the program window:
- firstly, in one of the lines of the list of 16 possible USB ports (what a scope! :-)), the status value “Ready”, volume accessible flash memory, controller model and unique serial number of the flash drive (2);
- secondly, in one of the squares corresponding to the same 16 USB ports, the value will appear total volume flash drives, an obscure index “2” (the second representation option?), and to the right and below the main square there will be a small additional one, filled with blue, corresponding to the same controller status “Ready” (3);
- thirdly, in the lowest information window the name of the flash drive controller model and the corresponding binary firmware will appear, automatically selected by the service utility (4).
If, after pressing the “Scan USB” button, the listed changes do not occur to you, then this indicates either some physical problem with the flash drive/USB port, or that the program does not “know” anything at all about the connected flash drive. Sometimes it happens that, based on the scan results, the information fields are filled in, but the controller status value is indicated as “No ready” or “ISP can"t be found!” and is displayed in a red font, not blue (the small additional square in the graphical representation field (3) also becomes the same color). Unlike the previous situation, when the program “knew” nothing at all about the connected flash drive, this means that the program I “recognized” the flash drive, but it (the program) does not have at its disposal the binary firmware suitable specifically for this type of controller.In this case, all that remains is to look for a newer and (or) suitable version of the “flashing” program.
Let's hope that you correctly identified the model of the flash drive controller, took the choice of the service utility very seriously, and that everything is in order with the USB ports on your computer, so the program window is blue, symbolizing inspiration (what, you didn’t know? : -)), the promising status “Ready” is displayed. This is the last step when you can “painlessly” refuse to “reflash” the flash drive if you suddenly change your mind. And if not, then all you have to do is click with the mouse on the “Start” button (the top one at the right edge of the program window), or, which is the same thing, press the “Space” key on the keyboard (1):
After this, in the very first line, which previously had the inscription “Ready”, in the “Progress” column a progress indicator similar to the one that is standard for Windows (2) will start. Please note that it will fill up and reset again some times, since the “flashing” process consists of several successive stages (have you forgotten many settings in the configuration file yet? ;-)), and the indicator shows the current progress everyone process one by one. You can find out exactly what stage the flashing process is currently at by looking at the second option for representing USB ports in the form of squares. In the square that corresponds to your USB port to which the “flashing” flash drive is connected, a description of the current stage of the “reflashing” process will be displayed in the form of a text inscription (3). In this case, it is clear that the screenshot was taken at the moment when the preliminary testing was performed, as clearly evidenced by the inscription “Test” in the background of the first square. In the lower right corner of the program, a counter of the time elapsed since the start of the “flashing” is displayed in seconds (4).
Keep in mind that the process of “flashing” itself and, moreover, writing the image file require considerable time - sometimes up to several tens of minutes. Despite the fact that the speed of data transfer via the USB bus is strictly regulated by relevant standards, the execution time of the “flashing” process is influenced by many factors, both obvious (number of stages during “reflashing”, USB port standard, ISO image size), and and hidden (configuration and characteristics of the computer’s disk subsystem, parallel execution of system processes, modification of the controller). In any case, you should be patient and under no circumstances interrupt the “reflashing” process if the counter continues to count seconds, the indicator scale moves slowly, and the inscriptions on the square symbolizing the USB port change. Of course, if, for example, for a whole hour the inscription “Test” is not replaced by the inscription “Load”, and the indicator either stands still or cyclically fills/resets, you will have to make a sad conclusion that that the “flashing” has currently failed and the program will crash. But, I repeat, this is - extreme a case that should not be resorted to unless absolutely necessary and without clear evidence of the “freezing” of the “flashing” process.
Evidence of the successful completion of the “flashing” process is a “reset” progress indicator, a stopped time counter and, most importantly, the appearance of two green squares with the inscription “OK” in the graphical representation field and in the upper right corner of the program:
As you can see, on mine On the computer, “reflashing” an 8-gigabyte flash drive with preliminary testing and recording an ISO image with a capacity of 3.3 gigabytes took a little more than 13 minutes and ended quite successfully.
After the long-awaited “OK” inscriptions “light up” in the service utility window, close the program and safe using this method we extract our flash drive.
Remember - at the first moment after flashing, you only need to safely remove the flash drive with the obligatory preliminary stop of the device!
Checking the results
Let's say you did everything correctly and the flashing process was completed successfully, after which you safely disconnected the flash drive and removed it from the USB connector. What's next? And then we have to check the result of the “flashing” by testing our flash drive in action. Therefore, without delaying the matter (as a rule, human nature is designed in such a way that you want to quickly see the result of your work), let’s start testing. To do this, we again connect our experimental flash drive to the computer:
But what do we see? A computer that has long been “familiar” with our flash drive (it identified it even at the very first connection and installed the appropriate driver), has just worked with it and into which we, after just a few seconds, reinserted it, informs us about that “New equipment was found” - but not a flash drive at all, but first we are talking about a certain “REPAIR USB DISK USB Device”, and then it is clarified that this device belongs to the class of “CD/DVD drives”!
Now let's see how this device is displayed in the standard Windows "My Computer" window:
Obviously, it is classified as a “Devices with removable media”, and is displayed as a CD/DVD drive (in my case it is assigned the letter “G:”) with a “REPAIR” disk inserted into it.
Do you still have doubts that the drive is “not real”? Then let's look at its properties:
From what was demonstrated to us by the operating system in the properties window of this device, we can clearly conclude that the drive is a “real” one, with the CDFS file system, which is the “calling card” of real CDs, and a complete lack of free space for recording.
How are things going with his security? Maybe the flash drive only skillfully “pretends” to be a CD/DVD drive, but in fact remains a standard random access media accessible to everyone? To answer this question, let’s try to write some arbitrary file to it (for testing, I’ll try to copy the “readme.txt” file from the archive with the flasher program):
Does not work! We are politely but firmly made to understand that this, so to speak, “disk” is “read-only” and you cannot copy or move files to it. Well, am I really repeating the standard Windows message to you? Have you never seen it yourself? ;-)
Thus, it turns out that we really “turned” the flash drive into a CD/DVD drive, along the way once again making sure that it is now really recognized by the system as a real CD/DVD drive and can write or change the data stored on it (or everything). “on it”?) files are not possible, but - I hope you haven’t forgotten yet? - we are interested in another important feature of our “reflashed” flash drive, namely the ability to boot a computer from it via BIOS. Therefore, the last and most important stage of verification lies ahead of us.
Leave the flash drive connected to the computer and reboot it. While the BIOS firmware is running, we call up the boot menu (usually by pressing one of the “F+digit” keys - which one depends on the developer of your computer’s motherboard) and make sure that our flash drive is present in the list of devices from which you can download:
After we confirm our choice by pressing the “Enter” key, we make sure that the computer actually boots from our flash drive (of course, the resulting “picture” on the monitor will depend on which ISO image you chose to write to process of “flashing”):
Congratulations - you have not only become the proud owner of a unique flash drive, but also mastered the technique of making such flash drives!
Possible problems and ways to solve them
Despite the fact that SMI controllers are among the most reliable and thoughtful, during such a delicate and non-standard process as “flashing”, a wide variety of errors and problems may arise. I sincerely wish you a successful completion of each “flashing”, but if it does happen that the process ends with an error or does not complete at all (“freezes”), I hope this section can help you, in which I tried to collect descriptions and possible solutions to the most common problems. At the same time, I ask you not to consider the material presented here as the “ultimate truth.” Alone person who owns one(well, let’s say, even two or three) computers, and having “reflashed” only two dozen flash drives out of thousands available for sale, it is simply physically impossible to “catch” all possible “glitches” and “bugs” that arise due to the greatest variety of hardware combinations -software configurations of computers, models of flash drives and controllers, as well as differences in the experience of their owners. Therefore, it is quite possible that in the process of implementing the actions outlined in this article, you will encounter a certain problem, and I, in turn, will not be able to help you. In this case, I can advise you to search for information about the problem that has arisen on the Internet, ask the appropriate question on specialized forums (at least on the two sites mentioned at the beginning of the article - and ), consult with more experienced comrades, or try to implement these actions on another computer (on work, with friends...).
So, now a direct description of possible problems and ways to solve them:
| Description of the problem | Clarification | Possible reason | Solution |
| The service utility does not “see” the flash drive | The operating system also does not “see” the flash drive | Physical malfunction of the flash drive | Replace the flash drive with a working one |
| Physical failure of the USB port | Connect the flash drive to another USB port | ||
| Failure of the “south bridge” of the motherboard | Repair or replace the motherboard | ||
| USB device support is disabled at the BIOS level | Enable support for USB devices in BIOS | ||
| The corresponding USB controller is disabled at the operating system level | Enable the USB controller (for example, through Device Manager) | ||
| Not installed at all or inappropriate drivers for the motherboard are installed | Check and, if necessary, update drivers for the motherboard | ||
The flash drive does not have enough power:
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| The operating system “sees” the flash drive | Temporarily disable anti-virus protection, as well as currently unnecessary software running in the “background” mode (for example, using “msconfig”) | ||
| The connected flash drive is incompatible with the version of the service utility being used | Replace the flash drive with a compatible one or update the software | ||
| The service utility “recognizes” the flash drive, but cannot work with it | One of the following messages is displayed: "No ready" "Initial Param Fail" "ISP can"t be found" | The service utility cannot find the appropriate firmware file for this controller model | Select software that supports this type of controller |
| The service utility “resets” or “freezes” during operation | The problem occurs at the same stage of the “flashing” process | The configuration file contains functions that are not supported by this controller model |
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| The integrity of the ISO image written to the flash drive during the “flashing” process has been compromised | Check the integrity of the ISO image used and, if necessary, update or replace it | ||
| The problem occurs at different stages of the flashing process | The operation of the service utility is interfered with by activated energy-saving functions of computer components | Disable or pause all energy saving features (both software and hardware) | |
| The operation of the service utility is interfered with by the activity of anti-virus tools or other third-party software | Temporarily disable anti-virus protection, as well as currently unnecessary software running in the background | ||
| The service utility does not have enough system rights to perform the action | Run the program “As Administrator” and (or) “In compatibility mode for Windows XP” | ||
| The flashing process ends with an error | The message appears: “Bad Block over setting” | The detected number of unstable flash memory blocks exceeds the maximum allowed specified value |
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| The message appears: “Bad Block over setting (User... > FW...)» | An unrecoverable error has occurred with the flash memory. |
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Optical discs (CDs and DVDs) are now used extremely rarely, since their niche as portable storage media has been occupied by flash drives. In the article below we would like to introduce you to ways to copy information from disks to flash drives.
The procedure is not much different from the banal operation of copying or moving any other files between different storage media. This task can be performed either by third-party tools or using Windows tools.
Method 1: Total Commander
Total Commander was and remains number 1 in popularity among third-party file managers. Of course, this program is also capable of transferring information from a CD or DVD to a flash drive.
- Open the program. In the left work panel, in any available way, go to the flash drive into which you want to place files from the optical drive.
- Go to the right panel and there go to your CD or DVD. The easiest way to do this is in the drop-down list of drives; the drive is highlighted there with a name and icon.
Click on the name or icon to open the disc for viewing. - Once in the folder with the disk files, select the ones you need by pressing the left mouse button while holding down Ctrl. Selected files are marked with a light pink name color.
- It is better not to cut information from optical disks, in order to avoid failures, but to copy it. Therefore, either click on the button labeled "F5 Copy", or press the key F5.
- In the copy dialog box, make sure you have selected the correct destination and click "OK" to start the procedure.
It may take some time, which depends on many factors (disk condition, drive condition, type and reading speed, similar flash drive parameters), so be patient. - If the process completes successfully, the copied files will be placed on your flash drive.
The procedure is fairly simple, but optical drives are notoriously tricky—if you encounter problems, see the last section of this article on possible problems.
Method 2: FAR Manager
Another alternative file manager, this time with a console interface. Thanks to its high compatibility and speed, it is almost ideal for copying information from a CD or DVD.
FAR Manager is known for its lightweight and almost lightning-fast speed, so we can recommend this method for users of low-power computers or laptops.
Method 3: Windows System Tools
Most users will be satisfied with the fairly convenient file and directory management implemented in Windows by default. All separate versions of this OS, starting with Windows 95, have always had tools for working with optical disks.
As practice shows, failures and problems most often arise when using standard "Conductor".
Method 4: Copy data from protected drives
If the disk from which you are going to transfer data to a flash drive is protected from copying, then methods with third-party file managers and "Conductor" they won't help you. However, for music discs there is a rather clever way of copying using Windows Media Player.
- Insert the music disc into the drive and start it.
By default, Audio CD playback starts in Windows Media Player. Pause playback and go to the library - a small button in the upper right corner. - Once in the library, look at the toolbar and look for the option “Setting up copying from disk”.
Click on this option and select from the dropdown list "Extra options…". - A settings window will open. Tab open by default "Copying music from a CD", that's what we need. Pay attention to the block “Folder for copying music from a CD”.
To change the default path, click on the corresponding button. - A directory selection dialog box will open. Go to your flash drive and select it as the final copy address.
- Set the copy format as "MP3", "Quality…"- 256 or 320 kbit/s, or the maximum allowed.
To save settings, press "Apply" And "OK". - When the options window closes, look at the toolbar again and click on the item "Copy music from CD".
- The process of copying songs to the selected location will begin - progress is displayed as green bars next to each track.
The procedure will take some time (5 to 15 minutes), so please wait. - Once the process is complete, you can go to the flash drive and check if everything has been copied. A new folder should appear containing music files.
Copying videos from protected DVDs cannot be done using system tools, so we will resort to a third-party program called Freestar Free DVD Ripper.
- Insert the video disc into the drive and run the program. In the main window, select "Open DVD".
- A dialog box will open in which you need to select a physical drive.
Attention! Do not confuse a real device with a virtual drive, if any!
- The files available on the disk are marked in the box on the left. On the right is the preview window.
Mark the videos you need by checking the boxes on the right next to the file names. - Videos cannot be copied “as is”; they will have to be converted in any case. So take a look at the section "Profile" and select a suitable container.
As practice shows, the best in terms of “size/quality/no problems” ratio will be MPEG4, we select it. - Next, you should select the location of the converted video. Click the button "Browse" to bring up the dialog box "Conductor". We select our flash drive in it.
- Check the settings and then press the button "Rip".
The process of converting the clips and copying them to the flash drive will begin.
Note: In some cases, it is better to copy multimedia files not directly from the disk to a flash drive, but first save them to your computer, and then move them to the flash drive.
For disks that lack protection, it is better to use methods 1-3 described above.
Possible problems and malfunctions
As already mentioned, optical discs are more demanding and demanding in terms of storage and use conditions than flash drives, so problems with them are common. Let's look at them in order.
- Copy speed is too slow
The cause of this problem can be either a flash drive or a disk. The universal way in this case is intermediate copying: first copy the files from the disk to the hard drive, and from there to the flash drive. - Copying files reaches a certain percentage and freezes
In most cases, this problem means there is a problem with the CD: one of the files being copied is incorrect or there is a damaged area on the disk from which data cannot be read. The best solution in this situation would be to copy the files one at a time, rather than all at once - this action will help identify the source of the problem. - Disc is not recognized
A common and quite serious problem. There are several reasons for this, the main one being the scratched surface of the CD. The best solution would be to remove an image from such a disk and work with a virtual copy, and not with real media.There is a high probability of problems with the disk drive, so we recommend checking it too - for example, inserting another CD or DVD into it. We also recommend that you read the article below.
To summarize, we would like to note: every year more and more PCs and laptops are released without hardware for working with CDs or DVDs. Therefore, finally, we would like to recommend that you make copies of important data from CDs in advance and transfer them to more reliable and popular drives.
Instructions
Insert the disc containing the video file into the drive. If the startup system is installed, a window will appear for selecting further actions to work with the disk. Click the "Open folder to work with file" option. If there is no startup, click “My computer - Drive E (any other letter indicating your drive).”
In the window that opens, either the movie file itself or two folders will appear: audio and video content of the movie. You need to select them with the mouse. Then on the left side of the window where the tasks are listed, you need to click the “ Copy” option.
The other option is much simpler. Select files on the disk with the mouse. Then right-click and in the dialog box that appears, click “Copy.”
For those who are used to working in the Total Commander program, it will be easiest to save the movie from disk. You need to click on the icon indicating the drive, use the Insert key (Ctrl + A) to select the files on the disk to be copied, and press the F5 key. The advantage of this method is that the film is copied much faster than in the two previous options. Enjoy watching!
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- how to work with dvd
Nowadays, you can find any movie or TV series on the Internet. But it is not always convenient for everyone to view them on a computer monitor. To play it in a home DVD player, you need to transfer the movie to a DVD disc, or, more simply put, burn a DVD.
Instructions
There are many different programs for burning DVDs, we will look at one of them - the Nero Vision program, included in the standard Nero package. Launch the program by double-clicking on the shortcut. The Nero Vision loading screen will immediately ask you what you want to do. Since you want to burn a DVD, press the Make DVD and DVD-Video buttons in sequence.
You will see a Contents page with windows on the right and left. The file structure of your file will be shown in the right window, find the movie you want to record and drag it with the mouse to the left window. There may be several films; the green bar at the bottom will show you the amount of free space on the future disk. Once you have added all the required files, click the "Next" button.
The next page will be called "Edit Menu". You can leave it unchanged, or give the menu a name, select its template, individual clips, and so on. The menu created on this page will be the welcome menu that the DVD player will show when the disc starts. For each film, you can configure the special effects with which it will appear on the screen; this is done under the “Connections” item. When you are finished editing, click the "Next" button.
The "Preview" page will give you the opportunity to preview the still virtual DVD. Using the drawn remote control, make sure that all functions work correctly and proceed to directly recording the disc. Tell the program the DVD drive it should use, the name of the future disc, and click the "Burn" button.
But before you start writing to disk, the program will need some time to transcode the video. Depending on the power of the computer, this can take from several minutes to an hour. Nero Vision no longer requires your presence; after transcoding the video, it will write it to disk itself. All you have to do is go back to your computer and get the finished DVD out of it.
In our age of computerization, digital devices are increasingly becoming part of everyday life. Digital music, movies and games have become commonplace. But if with music and games everything is obvious and simple, then watching movies on a computer is not always convenient. It is much more interesting to watch a movie in the company of friends, for example, on a home theater or on a regular DVD player. To do this, you may need to burn movies to disk.
Instructions
In order to burn movies to disk, we need special burning programs. There are quite a lot of them, for example, CDBurnerXP, Free Easy CD DVD Burner, Astonsoft DeepBurner, Small CD-Writer, Ashampoo Burning Studio, Nero and others. Considering the simplicity and intuitive interface, we will use the Ashampoo Burning Studio program for recording.
After installing and launching the program, we see a window with a list of available functions grouped on the left side. You can burn movies to disk using two commands: either “Burn files and folders” or “Burn and photos”. Let’s select the “Burn files and folders” menu, since the further operation mechanism will be simpler and the recording will be faster.
In the pop-up window, select “Create a new CD/DVD/Blue-Ray disc.” In the window that appears, add the films that need to be recorded. This can be done either with the “Add” button located on the right, or by dragging files into the workspace with the mouse. At the bottom of the window there is a volume. Using it, you can estimate the total volume prepared for recording. Click “Next”.
In the next window, select the disc writing speed by clicking on the “Change options” button. Some DVD players do not read discs recorded at high speeds well. Therefore, we recommend choosing not the highest speed available for the drive. Next, click “Record”.
Disc recording has started. Its time depends on the selected speed and the size of the recorded files. After the burning is completed, the drive will come out of the housing. If the recording is successful, a service window will appear on the screen with the message “Disk burning successful!”.
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DVD players are not capable of reading all video formats and codecs. In order to watch an unreadable format on the player, you should select the “Burn video and photo” menu and then “Create a video CD” or “Create a video DVD.” The program transcodes the video files specified in the subsequent steps into a format readable by the player before recording.
A seemingly simple problem is not so easily solved. How to burn (send) a movie to disk? Simply dragging the file onto your disk icon will not do. You can use a special program that is tailored for this function and will quickly help you achieve results.
You will need
- Computer, Nero Express program.
Instructions
Use the popular Nero Express program. Launch it by double clicking on the shortcut.
In the program window, find the “Add+” button at the top and search for the corresponding movie file or files. Select your DVD from the drop-down list at the top. Below is a bar showing the remaining free space on your disk. Add the required number of movies to the disc until the bar reaches the red line. To continue, click the “Next” button.
The next step is setting up recording parameters, naming the disk, choosing the recording speed, etc. To start recording, click the “Record” button. Wait for the procedure to complete until the information capsule is completely filled. As a result, the disc will eject itself from the DVD ROM.
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- How to burn a video to disk so that it can be played by anyone
A favorite movie recorded on a DVD can be an excellent gift for your girlfriend, friend, mother and other acquaintances. Moreover, it’s so easy to do.
You will need
- Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 Free disc burning software
Instructions
Start with the Start button. Launch Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 Free. Under the heading "What do you want?" you will see options. In order to record music, text files, programs or games, use the "Burn files or folders" option. If you want to burn DVD Video, use the "Burn Movies" menu item.
Then select "Burn Video DVD from the prepared folder."
Click the "Browse" button and select the required files (the files must be VOB, IFO and BUP).
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note
Do not interrupt the recording manually, wait until the process is completed.
Helpful advice
The program will prompt you to select the disc writing speed. Do not choose the slower option - this will provide the desired recording quality, although it will take a little longer.
Sources:
- Review of Free DVD Burning Software
Many PC users sooner or later face the need to burn information to a DVD. And today there are many reasons for this need. For example, backing up important information, creating databases with music, creating bootable disks, photos, documents, movies. In addition, with the advent of DVD-RW discs, it is possible to use the same disc, that is, re-record and use it as a regular storage medium.
You will need
- Computer, Nero Burning ROM, DVD
Instructions
You can burn files to a DVD using the Nero Burning ROM program. Select the DVD you want to record. This can be recording data such as mp3 files, documents, files, programs, etc. To do this, select the desired item, and in it, select the “Create DVD with data” item.
Then the “Nero Burning ROM” subroutine for burning discs will open. Use “three and four” - on the PC, find the necessary information and drag it with the mouse into the first of the left columns “one or two”. You can create folders in these columns. In addition, you can delete folders and files from columns “one and two” if you placed them there by mistake or simply do not want to write down these particular folders or files anymore. But deleting information from the right columns “three or four” leads to deleting information from the PC, so you need to be careful! The right columns “three and four” perform the same functions as “Explorer”, that is, the same techniques for selecting files can be used here.
As you drag and drop information, make sure that the amount of data you write to the DVD does not exceed the size of the DVD itself. The volume scale at the bottom of the window warns about this. If you take a double-layer disc, switch the volume mode from DVD5 to DVD9. This can be done using the drop-down list in the lower right corner of the window. If you decide to record information, for example, a movie larger than 2GB, then you need to change the disc recording standard from UDF to ISO or ISO/UDF. To do this, close the running project (2nd from the top, menu “File - Close” or a cross on the right, or go to the menu “File - New”, or left-click on the image with a sheet of paper), select the required standard at the bottom of the list and click the "New" button. If you accidentally closed the navigation panel to conveniently drag and drop files, don’t panic - it can be restored. To do this, go to the “View – File Viewer” menu.
Once all the information is ready for recording, insert the DVD into the drive and start recording.
To start recording a project, click on the image with a “match and disk” on the “Toolbar” at the top or select the menu “Recorder - Record Project”. Then select the appropriate recording speed (if the information is important, select medium speed recording) and click the Burn button. After this, DVD recording will begin.
If you want to write data to a DVD-RW that already contains information, you need to delete the old data before writing new data. To do this, go to the “Recorder” menu and select the “Erase rewritable disc” menu tab. Then do not change anything in the settings and click the “Erase” button.
Nowadays, unlimited Internet has become publicly available, as a result of which we download more and more music and films from free services. Gradually, the space on your computer's hard drive fills up. However, you don’t want to delete important information. In this case, it is better to save files that take up a lot of space on CD or DVD drives. A good affordable program for burning movies and other information to disc is Nero Start Smart (as well as its other versions).
You will need
- - CD-Rom or DVD-Rom writer;
- - Nero program.
Instructions
Nero's menu prompts you to select a task and action. Place the cursor on " " ("Favorites") and select disk, which suits us, depending on which disc is inserted into the drive - CD or DVD. Select the “Create DVD with data” function and left-click on it.
The “Disk Contents” window opens in front of us; for now it is empty. On the right side of this window we see the “Add” button with a green cross. Click on it, and the “Select files and folders” window opens in front of us. By default, this function is suitable for recording any data, not limited to movies. We indicate the path to the folder we need: it is located on the desktop, in the “My Documents” folder, any hard drive or inserted USB device. Having selected a folder, click the “Add” button highlighted in the same window. You can select multiple folders if the DVD disc capacity allows you to save them. After selecting the files you want, click the “Completed” command.
The additional window has disappeared, and we see “Disk Contents” again. At the bottom of this window we see a line of DVD disk capacity: a scale in megabytes and a blue bar showing how much space the files we have selected take up. If the blue line does not extend beyond the yellow border, then there is enough disk space.
Recording has started. Its duration depends on the amount of information you save on the disk. After the required time has passed, the “Burn successfully completed” window will appear in front of you, and the CD-Rom will open with the disc already burned.
Click "exit" and close Nero by clicking the cross in the upper right corner.
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You can record movies on almost any computer. The main thing you need to burn movies to disc is to have an optical DVD burner on your computer. Fortunately, almost all modern computers have such a drive installed. So if you have a large number of movies accumulated on your hard drive, you can burn them to discs. This will free up space on your hard drive and add to your home DVD collection.
You will need
- computer, optical DVD burner, disk, Ahead Nero program, Internet access.
Instructions
Ahead Nero will help you burn to discs. Download and install it for yourself. After installation, launch the program. In the top window of Ahead Nero, select the disk format with which it will work. Select CD/DVD format. Now explore the program menu.
You only need six basic components. All of them are located on the top toolbar. By selecting one of the main parameters, you will see how additional components of the work will open in the window below. From the six main options, select “Photos and” (the fourth option). A menu will appear in the lower window where you can select different recording options.
Now, depending on the disc format, you need to select the recording option. If you are using a CD, select the Super video CD option. Please note that the maximum size of films in this mode should not exceed 700 megabytes. If you need to burn DVD movies, then the disc on which the movie will be recorded must be in DVD format. Select “DVD Video Files” as the recording format.
A window will then open where you can add movies to burn to disc. In the upper right corner of the program window, click on the “Add” tab. Now select the movies you want to burn to disc. After that, in the lower left corner of the program, click “Next”. After that, in the window that appears, click “Record”. The process of burning movies to disc will begin. Do not remove the disc from the optical drive until the process is complete.
After the films are written to the disc, a message will appear in the window indicating that the process was successfully completed. The computer's optical drive should open automatically after recording has finished. Remove the disc from it. Now you can watch movies from a burned disc on any computer or DVD player.
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The development of modern information technologies has led to the fact that the need to buy discs with films has disappeared. Now the pictures you are interested in can be downloaded and recorded on so-called “blanks”.
Instructions
Buy an empty disk - a blank. At the same time, do not forget about the size of the movie you plan to record. The amount of virtual space on the disk must be no less. It is advisable to purchase a blank DVD with maximum recording speed.
Downloading a movie. Select the movie on the tracker that you want to burn to disc and download it to your personal computer.
Changing the file format. After you have downloaded the movie, look at the file format. To play on all DVD players, you need to make the MPEG4 or AVI format using special programs.
Burn a movie to disk. For a more convenient and simpler way to burn a movie to disk, you can use programs that make it easier to record files onto a disc, for example, Nero. Insert the disc into your computer's CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. Autorun will offer you several options for disk operations; select writing files to disk. Next, specify the movie directory (location, movie on your). Next, click “Burn files to disk.” Recording a movie may take some time, depending on the specifications of your personal computer. After the recording is complete, select “check disk for errors.” This is necessary for the movie to play correctly. If there are errors, it means that the recording was successful and the disc with the film is ready for viewing.
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Helpful advice
Do not download films that are restricted in cinemas, as this is a violation of copyright, which is punishable by law. New items must be purchased in special stores that sell licensed products.
Anyone who has ever made a home video would love to show it to family and friends. It is much more convenient to do this by placing the disc in the DVD player and sitting in front of the TV screen. Moreover, there is nothing difficult in burning files to a DVD disc, even if your video is saved as an avi file.
You will need
- Nero Burning ROM
- DVD burner on a computer
- Video file
- Blank DVD disc
Instructions
Prepare files for burning to disk. Some players may not understand Cyrillic file names. This will not be a problem when playing the file, but you will not be able to select the desired file by name in the player menu, so rename the files in Latin. If you are going to write more than one file to disk, add a sequential number in front of the file name in the format 01, 02, and so on. In this case, your files will be played by default in the specified order.
Launch Nero using the Nero Smart Start icon.
At the top of the window, select the DVD disc type. Below, click on the icon that looks like a piece of paper. Your task will be to create a DVD with the data. The corresponding message will appear in the Nero Smart Start window. Click on this caption.
In the Nero Express window that opens, select the size of the disc to be written. This can be done through the drop-down list in the lower right corner of the program window.
Select the files you want to burn to DVD. To do this, left-click on the “Add” button in the program window. In the window that opens, select the required files and double-click on them with the left mouse button. A disk full indicator will appear at the bottom of the program window. The disk will be full when the indicator reaches the red line. After adding the last file, click on the “Finish” button.
Click on the "Next" button. In the window that opens, specify the name of the disk to be written, check the “Check data after burning to disk” checkbox and uncheck the “Allow adding files” checkbox, if it was there. The player may have problems reading multisession discs.
Click on the "Record" button in the lower right corner of the program window. Wait for the data recording and verification process to complete. The disk with AVI files is ready.
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Try not to write files larger than 2GB to disk. Some DVD players do not support such files and, worst of all, this information may not be in the instructions for the player.
The AVI file extension says nothing about the codec the file is compressed with. Make sure your files are compressed with a codec that is supported by your DVD player. The list of codecs is in the instructions for the player, and you can determine the codec with which the file is packaged using the VideoInspector program.
Sources:
- Description of working with the Nero Burning ROM program
DVD discs are the most common digital storage media today. They are read by computers and music players, DVD players. They are used to record video, music and large amounts of information. Sometimes you need to burn a DVD yourself to free up space on your hard drive or to transfer information to someone.
You will need
- Computer or laptop with a writing drive,
- program for creating discs, DVD disc.
Instructions
Make sure that the drive installed in your computer or supports DVD recording. In this case, the documentation or sticker on the case will indicate “DVD-RW”. If your drive is not DVD, install one that supports this function, or purchase an external drive, for example, one connected via a USB port.
Prepare a DVD disc (“blank”). Purchase a disk of the required capacity, depending on the amount of information you want to record. The standard capacity of a single-layer DVD is 4.7 GB. Keep in mind that a 4.7 GB disc actually has a capacity of 4.3 GB after recording, since part of the space is spent on recording service information. A single-layer, single-sided disc has one layer of information, a double-layer disc has two. The capacity of a double-layer, single-sided disc is 8.5 GB; a double-sided disc can hold up to 17 GB of data. If you are going to rewrite a disc more than once, buy a DVD+RW disc; if you do not plan to rewrite a disc, then DVD-RW will do.
To burn DVDs you will need a special program on your computer. For a burner drive to support it, the program must be newer than your drive model. The most popular programs are Nero Burning ROM; free ones - Burn4Free, FinalBurner and others. If your computer does not have such a utility, install it.
Typically, the process of burning a disc in programs looks like this. Insert a clean blank into the drive and start the burning program. Select the type of data to be recorded (video, music, pictures, data, image). If you want to make a universal disk with various information, select the “data” item; such a disk will be read on any computer. A window will appear where you need to drag the data to be recorded - find it on the hard drive and add it. Make sure the disk capacity can accommodate all this information. If desired, adjust the recording speed and other settings. Click on the "Record" or "Burn" button. Wait until recording is complete. Check that the recording was completed without errors.
Simple recording of DVDs is also possible using the operating system. For example, in Windows, to do this, you need to insert a blank disc into the drive, select the disc burning option in the menu that launches, add the necessary files and start burning. But it is best to use special software, since in this case there is less chance of errors and disk damage.
note
During burning, do not use other applications or stop recording to avoid errors.
Helpful advice
To create disk copies, use ISO images.
Sometimes it is necessary to empty your hard drive of files stored on it, for example, movies. They can be burned to a DVD and then viewed on a DVD player or returned to a computer.
You will need
- - blank DVD;
- - Nero;
Instructions
First you need to decide which program you will use to burn to a DVD. One such program is Nero. Buy it in a specialized store, as it is not distributed, and the use of pirated products is punishable by the law of the Russian Federation.
Install the program on your personal computer. Enter your license key. Activate Nero via an Internet connection.
Go to “Start” - “All Programs” - “Nero” folder and open the Nero Burning ROM application.
A dialog box for this program will appear in front of you. In the upper left corner, click on the tab and select the DVD section. Now you need to choose which operation you will perform. If you need to burn a movie image to a disc, select DVD-ROM (ISO). To copy a movie from one disc to another, select DVD-ROM (copy). If you need to record a movie that is on the hard drive of your personal computer, select DVD-Video. Click Next.
In the movie recording dialog box that appears, you must specify the path (the location where it is located on your personal computer). Pay attention to the size of the film. If it exceeds 4483 mb, then you need to select the DVD9 tab (the size will be increased to 8152 mb) and use 2 DVDs.
The program has the ability to create your own DVD menu. Choose from ready-made templates or create your own. The menu allows you to split the movie into fragments.
Once you've chosen a template, click OK and view your work in the video player.
The final step in creating a disc is Burning. Click "Burn" and the movie will be burned to DVD with all the settings you created. The files will also be re-encoded into DVD format. The DVD with the film is ready.
Helpful advice
Free programs: AVS Disc Creator, DeepBurner Free, Burn4Free, CDBurnerXP Pro, CD Manipulator and others.
Professional programs: Nero, Sony DVD Architect Pro, FinalBurner Pro, MAGIX Movies On CD & DVD 3.0, Alcohol 120 Percent, ULead DVD Workshop 2.21 and others.
Using special software, you can create a DVD with a menu that will include various fragments of the film, a list of chapters, contents and a trailer for the film.
You will need
- - Nero Burning ROM
Instructions
Purchase licensed software Nero Burning ROM v 8.2.4.1 from a specialized store. Install on your personal computer. Enter the key found on the back of the package. Activate your software via the Internet. Download the latest updates and install them. Reboot your operating system for all changes and updates to take effect.
Go to “Start”, then “All Programs” - “Nero” and open the Nero Burning ROM application. A special dialog box will appear in front of you, designed for professional work with iso images, films, photographs, mdf files, etc. This program allows you to burn images to disks, copy a disk located in the first drive to a disk in the second drive. You can create covers, movie menus and much more.
In the upper left corner of this dialog box, select the DVD tab. Options for working with disks will appear. Select DVD-Video. In the window that appears, specify the name of the future disc in DVD format. Open the Edit drop-down window. Left-click on the words “Add files...”. Specify the exact path to the movie and click the “Add” button.
Open the DVD menu creation tab. Choose a menu style from ready-made templates. Specify the movie segments that will be available in this function. You can also create your own style. Once you have selected a design, press the "OK" key.
Click on the “Record” link. The disc will begin burning. Once the recording is complete, check the box next to “Check disk for errors.” Once the test is complete, the computer drive will open. The disk is ready.
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You can burn video files to a CD or DVD using any specialized program, or using the capabilities of the operating system itself. The second option is not possible in all versions of the OS, but the first provides more options for designing the disk being created and allows you to add some additional functions to it. The following describes the sequence of steps for burning video files to a CD using Nero Express from the Nero Multimedia Suite.
Instructions
Place the CD in the reader/writer and launch Nero Express. Select “Video/Pictures” from the list of types of data to be recorded, and from the options for discs to be created that appear on the right side of the program window, select “Video CD”.
Click the “Add” button and in the Explorer window that opens, find the video files in your file that need to be placed on the disk. Select them all at once or just one and click the “Add” button, which is also in the Explorer window. The selected files will be displayed in the main program window, which will calculate their total size and display the fullness of the created disk. The indicator has three color ranges - red indicates the disk is full. As long as the disk is not full (green or yellow indicator), you can add files without closing the Explorer window. Then click the “Close” button in it, and the “Next” button in the main window.
Edit the appearance of the menu in the next step of the disc creation process. By clicking the "Arrangement" button, you can change the spatial position of the menu items, footer, and header. The “Background” button allows you to select a picture or menu, and the “Font” button allows you to adjust the color and style of all the inscriptions in the menu. By checking the “Show full-screen menu” box, you can see what the result will look like on the screen. The “Default” button cancels all changes made to the basic menu design. When finished with the menu, click the “Next” button.
Select a recording device from the “Current Recorder” drop-down list if you have several of them and click the “Record” button. After this, the process will begin, which, depending on how full the disk is, the format of the selected files and the recording speed, can take from several minutes to several hours. At the end of the process, the program will beep.
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External electronic storage media are now very convenient: they allow you to save free space on disks computers, create backup copies of information and protect it. Such devices include flash cards, hard drives and CDs. But to save a movie recorded on a disc, it is better to copy it to your hard drive.
Instructions
Insert the movie CD into the drive. Wait for the disc to autorun or open it using Explorer or My Computer.
Open the disc contents, but do not play. Copy a movie by right-clicking on its shortcut. In the context menu that opens, select the “Copy” function. Open your movie folder or simply log into your desktop for easy copying. Right-click and select the "Paste" task in the function window. The movie will begin copying from the CD to the computer's memory.
When loading is complete, remove the movie disc from the drive. Insert an external hard drive into the USB input of your computer. If necessary, check it for viruses, then open the device.
Open the folder with the saved movie. Copy it as you copied from disk. Enter the external hard drive folder and right-click. Select "Insert" from the context menu. Wait until copying finishes.
If your computer is powerful enough, save time downloading data to an external hard drive. You can insert a CD into the drive and a hard drive into the USB input of your computer at the same time. Open My Computer. Wait until the system recognizes both external devices.
Open the movie CD and external hard drive folders. Drag a movie from one folder to another by holding it with the left mouse button, or use the “Copy” - “Paste” function. In this case, the video will be recorded directly to the hard drive without the participation of computer memory.
Sometimes you need to burn several movies onto one blank DVD. You can do this yourself using special software.
You will need
- - blank DVD
Instructions
Purchase the licensed program Nero Burning ROM v 8.0.0.435 or Alcohol 120% v 6.9.0.12 from a specialized store. Install this application on your personal computer. Download the file with the updated databases from the official website of the manufacturer. Set them in automatic mode. Reboot your operating system for all changes to take effect.
Go to “Start” - “All Programs”. Open the Nero tab and launch the Nero Burning ROM program. A dialog box will open in front of you. Check the box next to "start multi-session disc". On the left side of the menu, select DVD-Video or DVD-ROM (ISO) recording format. Click the "Start" button. In the new window you must specify the name of the future movie disc.
In the lower right part, from the drop-down list, select the DVD9(8152 Mb) function. This will allow you to burn two films onto one disc. Click the "Edit" link. In the list that appears, click on the “Add files...” button. Specify the exact path to the location of the films (move them into one folder first to avoid confusion and difficulties in searching). Click Add.
On the makeshift data size scale you will see how much space the two films will take up.
Click "Next". A window will appear in front of you with the function of creating a disk menu. You can choose a ready-made template or upload your own. Specify the number of chapters you want the movies to be divided into, or specify the time periods of the desired episodes.
Once you've finished burning the required movies to DVD, check the "check box" next to "check for errors."
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The capacity of modern hard drives is measured in terabytes. Therefore, you have less and less to worry about lack of disk space. And if you have a large library of movies and videos, you can easily copy the entire library to your hard drive. At the same time, you will not only be able to watch movies on your computer without inserting a disc into an optical drive, but also copy movies to a flash drive and watch them on any modern TV or DVD player.
