Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Alcohol - How to makeburn images using alcohol?

By:Parth Barot

Now a days, most of the people are using CD Burning softwares.But see many doesn't have CD writers.so, what to do for making CDs of games and other softwares which can not be run without CD in the drive?

Simple!Make image file of the CD in your Hard Disk Drive.It means make a same data file as CD,Load the file in virtual CD/DVD software and fool the operating system and the software/game itself that you are using the original CD!

Which software to use?ok we have some choices here.
1.Slysoft's Clone CD
2.Alcohol 120%
3.Nero

And many more available free/paid but these 3 are the most used for burning and etc.

1.Clone CD(.ccd) is good for bad CDs.make images in large sizes but you can use them.Supports most of image file formats.

2.Alcohol is the best one among these three.Because it suports all kind of image formats and also make images in Clone CD(.ccd) and Nero(.nrg) formats.It is fast and better as it scans the CD and tells you that can't make image and can't burn it!small size also. (I suggest this one as i am using it.)

3.Nero...The big one(New Nero 7 is about 100 MB setup size!Too big!)it has many other features but i think no need to use it if you only want to use for making images.

Here i am giving small tutorial for use of Alcohol

Making CD image-----------------------------
1.Install Alcohol 120% and let the PC restart if it wants it.Because it installs drivers for virtual CD drive.

2.Start Alcohol and click File-->Image Making Wizard.Wizard popups as shown below.
Alcohol Make image Wizard

3.As shown in image above,choose your source CD drive from which you want to make image file.(Shown with Red A)

4.Then from 'DataType' combo box select Data format.If data cd then select what ever you want.If very bad and scratched cd then select 'video cd with bad sectors' as shown in Red B.

5.For skipping reading errors and scanning the disc, use the checkboxes given.

6.Click on next and then choose the location on your HDD to save image.

7.In file formats, select MDS (alcohol's own format)for best reduced size.If you think its a bad CD then you can select CCD(clone cd format) but it takes more size.

8.Then make the image by finishing the wizard.

9.Your image is in you drive.Load it in Alcohol's virtual drive and use it as you are using CD.

same like this you cam burn CD images to CDs directly by selecting the image files.And copy dics to dics also.

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