copying disc to disc one cd-rom

If you have only a CD-R drive, you can manually copy the contents of the original CD-ROM to a folder on the hard disk, and then drag the data to the CD-R drive that has had the original media removed.

NOTE: You can also right-click the files, click Send To, and then click the name or drive letter of your writable CD drive to copy the files.
To initiate the record process, either right-click the CD-R drive, and then click Write these files to CD, or double-click My Computer, click the CD-R drive, and then click Write these files to CD on the File menu

If you have only a CD-R drive, you can manually copy the contents of the original CD-ROM to a folder on the hard disk, and then drag the data to the CD-R drive that has had the original media removed.

NOTE: You can also right-click the files, click Send To, and then click the name or drive letter of your writable CD drive to copy the files.
To initiate the record process, either right-click the CD-R drive, and then click Write these files to CD, or double-click My Computer, click the CD-R drive, and then click Write these files to CD on the File menu

The usual method of accomplishing this task is called imaging. You save an image of the disk to your hard drive, then you burn the image to disk.

No problem.

The Nero or other burning programs are smart (?) enough to recognize the situation, source and destination CD device being the same. The program will copy the source CD to a temporary space in the hard drive and once this is done it will request a new blank CD to burn.

Nero Burning Rom can do the job for you..
for this you will require..

1- at least 700+ free MB space.
and it will take twice the time ...
Once it will create an image..
then you will burn that image to the Cd..

open Nero,..

...Fromchoose recorder Menu...chose Image recorder..

Insert the source Cd...select the source CD..Click Burn...
it will create an image...name that image to anything you like...the default is image.. itself.

..now take out the source Cd..
Again click the choose recorder menu..and now choose...the CD--roms which will be listed there.

click the open button...browse to your image file..
insert the Target CD..
and click Burn...

and you are done..

hope it helps..

Nero Burning Rom can do the job for you..
for this you will require..

1- at least 700+ free MB space.
and it will take twice the time ...
Once it will create an image..
then you will burn that image to the Cd..

open Nero,..

...Fromchoose recorder Menu...chose Image recorder..

Insert the source Cd...select the source CD..Click Burn...
it will create an image...name that image to anything you like...the default is image.. itself.

..now take out the source Cd..
Again click the choose recorder menu..and now choose...the CD--roms which will be listed there.

click the open button...browse to your image file..
insert the Target CD..
and click Burn...

and you are done..

hope it helps..

Hi Wilbur,

I have used both methods that have been offered to you in the other answers.

For a single copy, just use the copy function of Nero with the source and target drives the same.

Nero will read the source CD, and copy it to a temporary file on your hard drive.

After the CD is copied, Nero will ask you to insert the target (blank) CD, and burn the files onto the CD.

If I plan to make multiple copies, or expect I will want another copy at a later date, I create a folder for the CD, and copy it in it's entirety to my hard drive.

For the copy method, I would recommend a minimum of 1GB free hard drive space.
700MB for a full CD,
300MB for the Windows page file to use.

Chas

P.S. I don't need any points, just saw your user name and wanted to add my 2 cents.

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