Farstone VIRTUALDRIVE PRO 10 User Manual
VirtualDrive
Version 10
®
Pro
For Windows 2000/XP-SP2/Server 2003
User’s Guide
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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction 8
41.1 What is VirtualDrive® Pro? 8
1.2 Features and Benefits 8
Chapter 2 Installation 11
2.1 System Requirements 11
2.2 Installing VirtualDrive® Pro 11
2.3 Uninstalling VirtualDriv e® Pro 11
Chapter 3 Getting Started with VirtualDrive® Pro 14
3.1 Starting VirtualDrive® Pro 14
3.2 VirtualDrive® Pro Start Menu 15
Chapter 4 Backing up Data to Discs 18
4.1 Easy Backup 18
4.1.1 Searching for Files to Back up 18
Search Files Using the Easy Backup Wizard 20
Searching for Files Using Windows Explorer Search 20
4.1.2 Backing up Files 20
4.1.3 Customizing Search Types 21
4.2 Cloning Discs 21
4.3 Backing Up Image Files 23
4.4 Restore Burning an Image 24
4.5 Burning Data CDs & DVDs 25
4.5.1 Creating a Project 26
4.5.2 Burning a Project to Disc 32
4.6 Burning Multiple Discs 33
4.6.1 Burning Data on Multiple Discs 33
4.6.2 Retrieving Data from Multiple Discs 33
4.6.3 Using Multiple Disc Sets in a Virtual Drive 35
4.7 Burning Settings 35
4.7.1 Disabling the CD/DVD Drive Auto-run Feature 35
4.7.2 How to Choose Burning Settings 36
Chapter 5 Multimedia Creation 39
5.1 Creating an Audio CD 39
5.2 Creating an MP3 CD 39
5.3 Creating a Movie/Video 39
5.4 Creating a Slideshow 42
Chapter 6 Working with VirtualDrive® 46
6.1 How to Make an Image 46
6.1.1 Making an Image from a Project 46
6.1.2 Making an Image from an Existing Disc 47
6.2 Working around in VCD Manger 52
6.2.1 Adding Images to Run on Your Virtual Drives 53
6.2.3 Using Cabinets to Organize Images 53
6.2.4 Creating a VCD Shortcut 54
6.2.5 Searching Images 54
6.2.6 Extracting Files from an Image 54
6.2.7 Adding Additional Virtual Drives 56
6.2.8 Changing the Auto-run Function of Disc Drives 56
6.2.9 VCD Manager Settings 57
6.4 Converting between ISO 9660 Images and Virtual CDs 57
Chapter 7 Virtual Hard Drive 60
7.1 Creating a RAM Disk 60
7.2 Mounting an Image into the RAM Disk 61
7.3 Working with Virtual Hard Drive Manage r 62
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7.3.1 Moving Files and Folders to a RAM Disk 62
7.3.2 Saving the RAM Disk Image 63
7.3.3 Removing RAM Disk from the System 63
7.3.4 Virtual Hard Drive Settings 63
Chapter 8 InstantBurning 66
8.1 Starting Instant Burning 66
8.2 Getting Prepared for using Instant Burning 66
8.2.1 Choosing right type of disc to use 66
8.2.2 Choosing the Default Recorder 67
8.2.3 Formatting a Rewritable Disc 67
8.3 Instant Burning Basics 68
8.3.1 Adding Files to Disc 68
8.3.2 Deleting Files from a Disc 69
8.3.3 Viewing Contents of a Disc 69
View Disc Contents on Another Computer 69
8.3.4 Ejecting a Disc 69
8.3.5 Renaming a Disc 70
8.3.6 Erasing a Disc 70
8.3.7 Viewing Disc Status 70
8.4 Instant Burning Settings 70
Chapter 9 VirtualDrive Pro Utility 73
9.1 Erase Disc 73
9.1 View the Device Information 73
9.3 Rapid Cache 74
9.3.1 Rapid Cache Features 74
9.3.2 Rapid Cache Settings 75
Chapter 10 Live Update 77
Chapter 11 Appendix 79
11.1 Definitions 79
10.2 Technical Support and Product Update 83
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Chapter 1
Introduction
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Chapter 1 Introduction
41.1 What is VirtualDrive® Pro?
VirtualDrive® Pro is the most comprehensive CD/DVD software package ever created. In addition to the
CD and DVD burning features you will find in many media suites, VirtualDrive® Pro gives you two
additional unique bonus features: Virtual Hard Drive, for hard drive emulation and VirtualDrive®, the No.1
CD/DVD Emulator worldwide.
Features you receive with VirtualDrive® Pro include:
CD/DVD Burning: Allows users to back up, share or archive various file types from the hard drive to
a CD/DVD, clone CD/DVD discs and backup VCDs (VirtualDrive® CD/DVD Image files) to a physical
disc.
Multimedia: Allows users to create audio CDs, MP3 CDs, movie CDs/DVDs and slideshow CDs from
their multimedia collections, which can be played on computers and/or home entertainment
equipment.
VirtualDrive®: A revolutionary software program that emulates your computer’s CD/DVD-ROM drive,
which enables you to run CD/DVD programs directly from your hard drive without the use of the
physical CD/DVD-ROM drive or the actual disc.
Virtual Hard Drive: Emulates a RAM Disk Drive to store files in non-swappable physical memory.
Virtual Hard Drive works almost the same as a physical hard drive in your computer and the data can
be automatically saved if any changes are made to the Virtual Hard Drive.
Instant Burning: With a recordable disc in the drive, you can use the CD/DVD drive as easily as any
of the drives on your local hard drive. Burning data to the disc is as easy as dragging-and-dropping
files to the drive in Windows Explorer.
1.2 Features and Benefits
• Customize your own CD & DVD Discs
Customize your own CDs, DVDs and Images (Virtual CDs/VCDs) with selected files from other media, such
as a CD, DVD or from the hard drive. The compiled Images can be configured to automatically run when
inserted into a virtual drive.
• Create you own Movie or Video
Create customized home movies or videos from your multimedia collections. The CD/DVD you create can
be played on personal computers as well as on home entertainment equiptment.
• Easy Backup
Searches and organizes all types of files to allow you to quickly and easily back up data onto a CD/DVD.
• Clone CD/DVD
Make an exact copy of an existing CD/DVD (copy protected content excluded) to another recordable
CD/DVD disc.
• Supports most CD/DVD formats
VirtualDrive® supports the following CD/DVD formats: CD-ROM, CD-Extra, CD-Text, Audio CD, Mixed
Mode CD, Photo CD, Video CD, DVD-ROM, Multi-session CD and unprotected DVD Video.
• Copy protection support
VirtualDrive® Pro is compatible with SafeDisc, SecuROM, LaserLock, StarForce and more.
• Fully integrated with Windows
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The XP-style user interface is completely integrated with Windows Explorer and the Windows Device
Manager. Easily insert, eject and browse an Image from a familiar interface. Enable/Disable a CDs
auto-run function, change CD/DVD drive letters or set your own hot-keys to insert and run VCDs
quickly.
• Create shortcuts for your Images
This feature allows users to create desktop shortcuts to local or network Images. Double-clicking on
the shortcut will insert the Image into the virtual drive quickly and easily.
• Add Images from the Internet
With VirtualDrive® Pro, you can add an Image that is shared on the Internet or a LAN into VirtualDrive®
Pro.
• VCD Cabinet
Instead of storing Images all in one place, the new Cabinet function allows you to sort your Images and
place them into different “cabinets” in the VCD Manager.
• Export Audio Tracks
Extract audio tracks from an existing audio CD, either a real CD or a virtual CD, and store them as audio
files (*.WAV) or MP3 files (*.MP3) on the hard drive.
• Compression
VirtualDrive® Pro incorporates a high-performance compression engine for building VCD files.
Compressed VCD files are automatically decompressed when accessed.
• Optimized CD performance
VirtualDrive® Pro plays VCDs at hard drive speed (equivalent to a 200x CD-drive). With its advanced
caching technology, VirtualDrive® Pro can reduce CD access times by up to 75%.
• Optimized application performance
Virtual Hard Drive allows once disk-based data to be accessed from physical memory. At physical memory
speeds, this will boost the performance of your programs by reading information in nanoseconds.
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Chapter 2
VirtualDrive Pro
Installation
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Chapter 2 Installation
2.1 System Requirements
• Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003
• CD/DVD drive or recorder
• 50 MB of hard drive space
• Intel Pentium (or compatible) 233MHz processor or better
2.2 Installing VirtualDrive® Pro
Step 1: Close any applications that are running before starting the installation.
Step 2: Insert the VirtualDrive® Pro CD-ROM into the drive. The setup program should start automatically.
If the auto-run function does not start, run the setup.exe file directly from the disc. Also, if you are
installing from a network or a hard drive, double-click setup.exe to launch the Windows Installer
program.
Step 3: Select the language you prefer for the installation. After the Windows installation program has
configured your system, the VirtualDrive® Pro installation wizard will be launched.
Step 4: Carefully read the software license agreement. If you accept the terms of the agreement, select
I Accept the License Agreement, and then click Next to continue.
Step 5: Enter your Name, Company (optional) and Serial Number; click Next to continue.
Step 6: The Installation Wizard will suggest a folder in which to install the VirtualDrive® Pro program files.
If you would like to store the program files in another location, select Change to open the file browser and
select a new folder.
Step 7: Confirm the setup configuration and then click OK to start the installation process.
Step 8: Set the number of virtual drives in your system. (Note: You must select at least one virtual drive
to install VirtualDrive
Step 9: You can place a shortcut on the desktop after the installation, by selecting the appropriate
checkbox as the installation completes. After the installation process has completed, select Finish and the
setup program should prompt you to restart the computer. Click Yes to restart the computer and launch
the VirtualDrive® Pro program, or click No to restart later.
Note: The VirtualDrive® Pro program is unusable until the system has been restarted.
2.3 Uninstalling VirtualDrive® Pro
Step 1: Close all other programs that are running. If the VirtualDrive® Pro icon is displayed in the System
Tray, right-click the icon and select Exit.
Step 2: To uninstall the VirtualDrive® Pro program, use either of the following methods.
● Select Start in the Windows taskbar, then select All Programs VirtualDrive® Pro Uninstall
VirtualDrive® Pro or
● Select Start Control Panel and double-click the Add or Remove Programs icon to open the Add
or Remove Programs screen. Select VirtualDrive® Pro, and then select Add/Remove.
Step 3: Either method will launch the VirtualDrive® Pro Uninstall Wizard. Select Remove to continue. The
uninstall program will now remove all files created by VirtualDrive® Pro.
®
Pro) Click Next to start the installation process.
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Note: The uninstall program will remove all files created by VirtualDrive® Pro, except the Image files
(VCDs, with the “VCD” or “D00…” extension), the project files (files with the “CIF” extension), and some log
files that keep a record of the VCD list in VCD Manager. These files are located in the VirtualDrive® Pro
install path and can be accessed or deleted through Windows Explorer.
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Chapter 3
Getting Started with VirtualDrive®
Pro
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Chapter 3 Getting Started with VirtualDrive® Pro
3.1 Starting VirtualDrive® Pro
After installation, you can launch VirtualDrive® Pro using any of these methods:
Double-click the program icon
Select Start All Programs VirtualDrive® Pro.
The main functions of VirtualDrive® Pro include:
Backup: Allows users to backup, share or archive various files from the hard drive to a CD/DVD, clone
CD/DVD discs, or back up Images to a real disc. From this page, you can:
Easy Backup Search for a specified file type on your local hard drive and burn the found files
to a CD/DVD disc(s) all at once.
Make Data
CDs/DVDs
Clone CD/DVD Make an exact copy of an existing CD/DVD to another recordable CD/DVD
Back up Image Back up and burn an Image file from the hard drive to a recordable CD/DVD
Restore Burning Restore an Image and burn the contents of the Image file to a CD/DVD disc.
Multimedia: Allows you to create an audio CD, an MP3 CD, a movie CD/DVD or a slideshow CD from
your collections.
Create an Audio
CD
Create an MP3
CD
Create a
Video/Movie
Create a Slide
Show
VirtualDrive®: A revolutionary software program that emulates your computer’s CD/DVD-ROM
drive, which enables you to run CD/DVD programs directly from your hard drive without the use of the
Backup or archive your various files from the hard drive to a recordable
CD/DVD disc such as a Data DVD, Data CD, Audio CD, MP3 CD, Mixed-Mode
CD, CD Extra, UDF CD and Multi-Session CD.
disc.
disc.
The files on the burned disc are the original files selected to initially build the
Image.
Use MP3, WMA or other types of audio files to make an audio CD that can be
played on your computer, home stereo equipment and car stereo.
Create an MP3 CD that can be played on a stereo that supports the MP3
format.
Create a movie from your video collections.
Create a slideshow accompanied by background music and transition effects
from your digital photo collections.
on the desktop
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physical CD/DVD-ROM drive or the actual disc. From this page, you can:
Create VCD Create an Image file of a CD/DVD disc and store it on the hard drive.
VCD Manager Launch VCD Manager and enjoy the more powerful functions of VirtualDrive®
Pro.
ISO Conversion Convert an Image to an ISO image, and vice versa.
Virtual Hard Drive: Emulate a RAM Disk Drive to store files in non-swappable physical memory. The
Virtual Hard Drive works almost the same as the physical hard drive in your computer. The data can
be automatically saved if any changes are made to the Virtual Hard Drive. You can launch Virtual Hard
Drive Manager from this page.
Create a New
RAM Drive
Mount Image as
a RAM Drive
VCD Manager Launch VCD Manager and enjoy the more powerful functions of
Utilities: Provides tools to erase all data from a re-writable CD/DVD disc and displays detailed
information about CD/DVD devices and the disc inserted in the device. From this page, you can:
Erase Disc Erase all data from a re-writable CD/DVD disc (CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW,
Create a new RAM Drive on your system.
Mount a previously created Image file as a RAM Drive
VirtualDrive®.
DVD-RAM).
Device info View detailed information about your CD/DVD device, including the CD/DVD
recorder and the disc inserted in the recorder
Rapid Cache Set caching configurations and view disc and CD/DVD device properties.
About: Click the Company logo on the VirtualDrive® Pro interface to view
information about VirtualDrive® Pro and FarStone. You can register your product by clicking Product
Registration on this page and you’ll be guided to the corresponding page at FarStone’s website
http://www.FarStone.com/).
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3.2 VirtualDrive® Pro Start Menu
After installation, the VirtualDrive® Pro icon will be displayed in the Taskbar Notification area.
Double-click the icon to launch the VirtualDrive® Pro main interface.
Right-click the icon to open the VirtualDrive® Pro Start Menu. (shown below) The Start Menu provides a
quick entry point to the most commonly used functions of VirtualDrive® Pro.
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Using the VirtualDrive® Pro Start Menu, you can perform the following functions quickly:
VirtualDrive® Pro: Launch the VirtualDrive® Pro main interface.
Instant Burning: Click to launch Instant Burning.
CD/DVD Burning: Click to launch CD/DVD Burning Manager.
VCD Manager: Click to launch VCD Manager.
Virtual Hard Drive: Click to launch Virtual Hard Drive Manager.
Insert: Click to select a virtual drive, and the Image to be inserted. (All virtual CDs that have been
added into the VCD Manager will be listed for you to choose from. You can also click Open and choose
an Image from the hard drive.)
Eject: Click to select a virtual drive and eject the Image inserted in it.
Browse: Click to select a virtual drive and view the contents of the VCD inserted in this drive through
Windows Explorer.
Erase Disc: Click to erase the rewritable disc inserted in the CD/DVD recorder.
Note：
If the auto-run function of your recorder is enabled, an Auto-run dialog will be displayed.
Choosing to disable the auto-run function will log you off Windows. Please save your
documents and close all other applications before clicking the OK button.
Enter New Serial Number: Click to enter a new serial number to activate VirtualDrive® Pro.
Note：
A serial number can only be used on one computer on a LAN. If a serial number is used to
install this program on a second computer on a LAN, the installed program will not be
available. You can purchase another serial number and enter it, to activate VirtualDrive®
Pro.
Exit: Click to exit the VirtualDrive® Pro program.
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Chapter 4
Baking up Data
to CD/DVD
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Chapter 4 Backing up Data to Discs
4.1 Easy Backup
Easy Backup allows you to search for specific file types (extensions) and back them up to a data CD/DVD.
If you ever forget the location of the files you want to back up, Easy Backup will search your computer for
you and return a list of files for you to back up.
To start using Easy Backup:
Select Easy Backup from the Backup page on the VirtualDrive® Pro main interface. The window below
will be displayed.
(to be modified)
Note: Easy Backup will initialize your system to prepare the search engine when you run Easy Backup for
the FIRST TIME. The time it takes to complete this operation may take up to 1 hour, depending on the
amount of data on your hard drive and the speed of your system.
4.1.1 Searching for Files to Back up
Follow the steps below to search for and add files to a Data CD/DVD project.
1. First specify your search options in the left pane of the program window. You can specify the following
options:
• File name or type: In this box, type in the name or partial name of file you want to search for. You
can also specify a type of file to search for. (Eg. If you want to search for word document, type in
*.doc).
You can also select a file type for the dropdown list to search by. By default, the program lists Image,
Audio and Video file types for you to select. You can include your own file type(s) to search for (as
shown in chapter
• Look in: search for files in the selected directory or folder only.
In the lower part of the search options pane are advanced search options, which include:
• When was it modified?
Specify a time range to search in. Only files within the time range you specified will be displayed in
the results box.
• What size is it?
Specify a size limitation to search in. Only files within the size range you specified will be displayed
in the results box.
• More advanced options.
Specify to include system files, hidden files and/or subfolders when searching.
4.1.3 Customizing Search Types).
2. After you finish defining your options, click one of the following three buttons to start searching for
files on your system:
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•
Click this button to search for new files or files modified since the last time Easy Backup
was used to backup your files.
•
•
Click this button to search for files that have already been backed up before.
Click this button to search all files regardless if they have been backed up or not.
Click one of the three buttons to start the search engine. The progress bar in top of the left pane
indicates the status of the search engine. You can click Stop to cancel the search process at any time.
3. When the search process has completed, the search results will be displayed in the results box (the
upper right pane in the Easy Backup interface.) You can view the detailed information of each file in the
box by right clicking on the file and selecting Properties from the popup menu. You also can preview
a file by selecting Open from the file’s right-click menu.
To add files to the disc project, you can drag and drop the file(s) you want to back up, to the box below.
Or you can right click on a file and select Add to add an individual file.)
Upon adding files to the disc, a notice will displayed to asked you if would like to add the file only or to
preserve the original folder structure.
Select “Add files to the current folder directly”; all files will be added to the same folder on the disc.
Select the “Keep the folder structure” option. Easy Backup will automatically create folder on the disc
and keep the original folder structure of the added files.
Check the box “Remember the choice and do not prompt next time”; this prompt window will not
appear when you add files in future. Your selected settings will then be applied to all future file adding
operations.
If you want to change the add method, you can re-enable the prompt window in the Tools Options
menu. On the General tab, check the “Show Add Mode window when add files” button.
Easy Backup support creating multisession disc. You can add file to a disc that already contain some
data on it. If you have checked the box “Prompt to create a multisession disc” in Tools/Options/General,
you will see a prompt window asking you if you want to create a multisession disc.
Click Yes to select a session on the inserted disc. Now you can add files to the inserted disc. Files added
this time will be burned in another session on the disc.
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Search Files Using the Easy Backup Wizard
The Backup Wizard will automatically launch the first time you use Easy Backup. You can disable the
auto-run feature of the wizard as described in step 1 below.
To use the Easy Backup Wizard
1. Click the Wizard button
displayed, as shown below.
2. Select a file type to search for. Please refer back to the beginning of chapter 4.1.1 for more detailed
information on searching for file types.
Clear the box “Auto display wizard at program startup” below to disable the auto-run feature of this
wizard each time Easy Backup is run.
3. Click Next to continue.
4. Specify a Search Mode and a Search Scope and click Finish to start the search engine.
on the toolbar on the Easy Backup program interface. The wizard will be
Searching for Files Using Windows Explorer Search
If you would like to use the Windows Explorer search engine, select Tools Windows Search from the
Easy Backup menu bar. The Windows Explorer search program will be launched. To add files from the
search results, simply drag and drop the files from Windows Explorer to the Easy Backup program.
4.1.2 Backing up Files
Once you have added a file to the project, you can burn the project to a CD/DVD disc or create an Image
file.
To back up files to disc
1. Set the Default Recorder to the physical disc recorder in your computer by selecting the appropriate
drive from the drop-down menu.
2. Click burn
for instructions needed to complete this operation.
Note：
VirtualDrive® Pro supports split-volume. When you have added more data to the disc project
to start the burning process. Please refer to chapter 4.5.2 Burning a Project to Disc
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than the disc has capacity for, it can divide the data and burn them onto multiple discs. Please
refer to chapter
4.7 Burning Settings.
To back up files as an Image
1. Set the recorder to the Image Recorder.
2. Click burn
Project for instructions needed to complete this operation.
4.1.3 Customizing Search Types
You can customize your search for a certain file type by following the steps below.
To customize a file type search
1. Select Tools Edit File Type from the Easy Backup menu. The window below will be displayed.
2. Select a category from the Select a File Type dro pdo wn m enu. To ad d a n ew f ile typ e to t his cat ego ry,
enter the suffix of this file type into the text box located at the bottom of the File Type window and
click Add. You can delete a file type by highlighting it in the list and clicking Delete.
3. After you finish configuring the File Type search parameters, click OK. You’ll now see the newly added
file type(s) in the File Name and File Type dropdown menu in the search options pane.
to start creating the Image. Please refer to chapter 6.1.1 Making an Image from a
4.2 Cloning Discs
With VirtualDrive® Pro, you can make an exact copy of an existing CD/DVD to another recordable disc,
quickly and conveniently.
To clone an existing disc to another disc:
Select one of the following methods to launch the Burning Setup dialog box (shown below).
Select Clone CD/DVD on the Backup page.
Click the CD/DVD Clone button
located on the CD/DVD Burning Manager toolbar.
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Note：
If the auto-run function of your recorder is currently enabled, an Auto-run warning dialog box
should pop up before the dialog box shown above. For instructions on how to deal with the
warning dialog box, please refer to section
There are two cases of cloning discs. This depends on the number of CD/DVD drives connected to your
computer. (At lease one drive needs to have CD/DVD burning capabilities.)
Case 1: Cloning a Disc with Two Disc Drives
4.7 Burning Settings.
If you have two CD/DVD drives connected to the computer (at least one of them needs to be a recorder),
the setup process is explained below:
1 Insert a Blank disc into the CD/DVD recorder, and then insert the Source disc into your other drive.
2 Select the drive containing the Source Disc in the drop-down menu at the top of the dialog box.
Other options in this dialog box include:
Disc Information: You can view disc type, number of sectors, disc size, time and sessions, tracks,
start sector and end sector of the Source disc.
Read Speed: Select a read speed from the dropdown menu. It’s recommended that you choose the
Best Speed option.
Ignore read errors: A read error may occur during the reading process for certain reasons.
Checking this box will ignore read errors when reading from the Source disc.
On-the-fly: To quickly clone a disc, make sure this option is checked.
Note：
If the On-the-fly option is checked, data will be read from the Source disc and then burned
directly to the Target disc.
If this is not checked, the data in the Source disc will first be compressed as an Image and
stored in a temporary files folder. The original contents of the Source disc will then be
burned to the Target disc. The setup process in this case is the same as Cloning a Disc
with One Disc Drive. Please refer to the instructions in Case 2.
This option is not available if there is only one CD or DVD drive in your computer.
Select options according to your needs and click Next.
3 A Burning Setup dialog box is displayed. Select your burning settings and click Record to begin
burning.
Note：
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For instructions on how to configure the burning settings, please refer to section 4.7 Burning
Settings.
4 Click Cancel to end the burning process if needed.
Case 2: Cloning a Disc with One Disc Drive
If you have only one recordable CD/DVD drive in your computer, disc cloning can also be accomplished with
VirtualDrive® Pro.
To clone a disc using one recordable CD/DVD drive:
1 Insert the Source disc into your CD/DVD drive.
2 Select your physical CD/DVD drive in the drop-down menu located at the top of the dialog box. Set
other options according to your needs and click Next.
(Note: The On-the-fly option is not available if there is only CD/DVD disc drive on your computer.)
3 A Burning Setup dialog box is displayed. Choose your burning settings and click Record to continue.
(Note: For instructions on how to configure the burning settings, please refer to section
Settings.)
Note: The next two steps are settings for making an Image.
4 Select the CD/DVD read method and use Data Compression if desired. The default read method
“Intelligent Extraction” is successful for most CD formats.
In most cases, you can use the “Intelligent Extraction” read method to make the Image. If you know
that a certain protection type is used on the CD, you can choose to build with that protection by using
Other Protected CD type option.
Using Data Compression will save hard disk space but will also require a longer build time.
5 Enter a description for the Image in the description field.
Optional: If the CD does not have an auto-run file, you can specify a program to run when the Image
is inserted into a virtual drive. You can use the Browse button
file.
6 Select Next to begin cloning discs or click Back to edit your settings.
7 When the Image of the Source disk has been successfully created, the disc will eject automatically.
8 Replace the Source disc with a writable disk and click OK to continue.
9 When recording has ended, click OK to close the Burning window.
to locate the executable program
4.7 Burning
4.3 Backing Up Image Files
With the “Back up Image” function, you can burn an Image (VCD) or several Images directly to a
recordable disc. You can use the Image file(s) on the disc, as you would Image files stored on your hard
drive (i.e. inserting it into a virtual drive and using it like a real CD or DVD).
To back up an Image:
1. Do any of the following:
On the VirtualDrive® Pro main interface, select Back up Image on the Backup page.
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Click Make Data CD/DVD to launch the CD/DVD Burning manager, and then select File
Back up Image.
2. Select the Image files you want to burn and then select Open.
3. All selected Images and their detailed information are displayed in this window.
You can also add new Images or remove selected Images by right clicking in the window above and
selecting Add.
4. After confirming your selection of the Image(s) to be burned, click Next to proceed to the screen
shown below:
Choose the burning settings and click Record to begin burning.
Note：
For instructions on how to configure the burning settings, please refer to section
Settings.
4.7 Burning
4.4 Restore Burning an Image
Unlike backing up an Image to disc, you can restore an Image and burn the contents of it back to a disc.
The files are the original files you initially selected to build the Image.
To restore and burn an Image:
1. From the VirtualDrive® Pro main interface, select Restore Burning on the Backup page.
2. In the Open window, select the Image file you want to burn and then click Open.
Note: Only one Image can be selected at a time.
3. The selected Image and its detailed information are displayed on the page shown below.
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You can also replace the selected Image with another one by right clicking in the above box and
selecting Add.
4. After confirming the Image to be burned, click Next to open the screen shown below:
Choose the burning settings and click Record to begin burning.
Note：
For instructions on how to configure the burning settings, please refer to section
Settings.
4.7 Burning
4.5 Burning Data CDs & DVDs
Clicking the Make Data CD/DVD button will launch the CD/DVD Burning Manager (shown below). Here you
can create various types of discs, including Audio CDs, MP3 CDs, Mixed-mode CDs, CD Extra, UDF CDs, etc.
Fig. CD/DVD Burning Manager
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