Today it is difficult to find a person who would completely copy the contents of a disc in the usual way. It is more profitable to create a disk image than to copy all the files. they can be lost and, more often than not, lead to fragmentation of the working surface of the hard drive. A disk image is a kind of archive that contains data read from a disk. The most popular among the images are the iso and mdf formats.
Necessary
Alcohol 120% software
Instructions
Step 1
The Alcohol 120% program has an internal format - mdf. At the moment, many programs support this format. If you create a disk image using the Alcohol 120% program, it will be rational to write them to disk using the same program. If you have not yet configured the program for recording, you need to do it according to some rules.
Step 2
After installing the program, it searches for virtual devices and starts the virtual disk service on the computer. In the left part of "Alcohol" click on the link "Virtual disk", and in the window that opens, select the number of virtual disks. To write an image to a blank disk, you only need one virtual disk.
Step 3
Then you need to search for images, if available on your hard drive. In the left part of the main window, click the "Search for images" link, in the window that opens, specify the folder in which to search and click the "Search" button. If the image was created by the Alcohol 120% program on your computer, in the "Location" list, select the Alcohol 120 folder.
Step 4
The images found by the program must be added to the main window - double-click the left mouse button on the disk image. Now you can mount the image or burn it to disk.
Step 5
To write to a disc, you need to prepare a blank disc and insert it into the drive. In the left part of the main program window, click the link "Burn images to discs". In the window that opens, specify the recorder (drive for recording) and the path to the image file. It remains to select only the speed and tick the boxes "Record" and "Simulation". Now you need to click on the "Start" button and wait for the end of the operation being performed.
Step 6
After the image is written to the disc, the drive tray should pop out. Slide it back in to check the writing on the disc - if the disc reads quickly, then the disc creation process was successful.
