Cd burning in winxp - Help a brother out.

PlasticMan · 10-28-2002, 10:07 PM

Trying to copy a game was easy in the past. Run Roxio CD Creator, and copy the CD. Now, Win XP won't even let me install that software, and I can't seem to get it to let me copy a CD wholesale onto a new disk. Anyone know of (and can get me) software to do this which works in XP?

Hybrid · 10-28-2002, 10:08 PM

nero

PlasticMan · 10-28-2002, 11:25 PM

I'll give it a shot.

Much grass.

Cunk · 10-28-2002, 11:43 PM

You don't need software with XP. It can burn CD's on it's own.

I don't have a burner on my XP machine but I think you just copy files to the CD drive in explorer and once you've added everything you want there should be a menu choice somewhere (probably in the context menu for the drive, too) for burning the disk.

krahzee · 10-28-2002, 11:53 PM

Try Downloading Clone CD. It does bit by bit copies. The Demo is free, although it does restrict you to 2X's burn speed if you don't pay for the full version. I have copied a ton of games with it, and as long as the original is pure ( no scratches, ect...) it should work fine.

PlasticMan · 10-29-2002, 05:01 PM

Cunk, see my original post. I am unable (possibly because I'm dense) to get XP to burn a disk to disk copy.

Krahzee, any idea where I might get that Clone CD? I'm in no rush, so 2x would work for me.

Cunk · 10-30-2002, 01:24 AM

Sorry, I'm dense. I completely missed the point about trying to copy a CD. Wouldn't it be just like Microsoft to purposely make that impossible with XP? Fuckers.

PeterDragon · 10-30-2002, 03:00 AM

check your drivers. Roxio worked fine for my iomega cdrw in win98, but didn't work at first in XP; I just went to roxio and loaded the update, and it is fine.

Nero, CDRWin, Fireburner are better at burning cd's if you know how to use them.

krahzee · 10-30-2002, 05:03 AM

Quote:Krahzee, any idea where I might get that Clone CD? I'm in no rush, so 2x would work for me.

here you go

PlasticMan · 10-30-2002, 08:15 PM

Thanks Gents. PD, that's exactly what I went through. I'll look into Roxio, along with the rest.

PeterDragon · 10-31-2002, 04:34 AM

Even if you get Roxio to work, try to get used to cdrWin (or nero); it is much better for mixed media burns and vcd/svcd's. And don't let direct CD run all of the time; it just interferes with too much.

If your willing to go retro, go to usenet to alt.binaries.multimedia.utilities and/or alt.binaries.cd.image; you can usually find stuff there; look also for posts like "A Newsgroup Toolkit" and "Dr. Mercury's SVCD Movie Kit" - you'll find may useful utilities there.