burn a cd with one drive?

@Aitrita (145)
Switzerland
August 29, 2010 7:31am CST
hi guys how can I copy a disc to another if I have only one drive?(preferably with Nero StartSmart) happy mylotting
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6 responses
@mlhervas (482)
• Philippines
29 Aug 10
Hi Aitrita! When you start Nero StartSmart select "Copy Disc" your "source drive" and "destination drive" should be the same since you have only one cdrom drive. Nero will just ask you to change the disc when it has finished copying the source disc. Another method if you want to create many copy of your source disc is to first create an image file of your source. select source which is the disc where all of your data disc then the destination should be "Image Recorder". Remember the target location where the image will be placed. After you have created the image file, you may now burn it to a blank cd by selecting "Image Recorder" on the "Source" then the cd drive on the "Destination". By doing the image record thing you will eliminate the copy process when you want to burn same disc to many blank cds. I hope it was clear enough.
@Aitrita (145)
• Switzerland
29 Aug 10
such a great explanation, thanks a lot:) I've borrowed the CD from my teacher so I was so anxious not to harm his CD(I'd be done!)
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
29 Aug 10
Copying a CD or DVD with only one drive is not a problem. The program, for example, Nero, copies the drive contents onto a virtual drive which it stores on the hard drive. Once all the material has been copied on to the virtual drive, it prompts you to put the blank into the drive and transfers the material onto the blank. Always take care to read all the instructions during the copy process. As you only have a finite amount of drive space, you don't want to save the material to the hard drive, so make sure you select 'Delete ISO after copying' (or something similar). Make sure that you have enough RAM for the buffers. The process needs to read information into virtual memory in 'chunks' before it can write it to the hard drive. Most PCs should have enough RAM for this.
@Aitrita (145)
• Switzerland
29 Aug 10
good point. thx:)
@akopoaysi (739)
• Philippines
29 Aug 10
make an image copy of the disk first. then use it for cd to cd burning. :)
@damned_dle (3942)
• Philippines
29 Aug 10
As long as your cd/dvd drive is a cd/dvd writer then it wouldn't be a problem. What kind of cd/dvd are you going to copy? It looks like you are new to those things, there are some cd/dvd that you can just copy to another cd/dvd. You need to copy the image first.
@dealerlv (264)
• Latvia
29 Aug 10
Put the disc which you want to copy. When the disc will read this must be taken out and placed inside the empty disc. Every writer is a memory becouse from memory all information will be recorded in the blank disck.
@Aitrita (145)
• Switzerland
29 Aug 10
yep, I think making an image would be more practical for future, right?anyway, thanks for help
• India
29 Aug 10
Nero provides a option to dish to disk copy. just enter yr source disk, nero will make the image of the source, after completing the process u r asked to insert a destination data storage disk(as well as u can save the image in yr HD). or u can use CDBurnetXP, a lite & powerful CD/DVD writer tool.