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CD and DVD Drives
Compact Discs and Digital Video Discs are forms of optical data storage. Questions about CD or DVD drives and CDs or DVDs themselves belong here.
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How do you burn files into a blank CD?
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Okay, the first thing you want to do is download these three files: img burn, DVD flick, and utorrent. When you have those things, you open up the internet and go to Google. Then type in mininove or pirate bay and click on the first link that comes up and search the movie you want click download torrent. Then utorrent will pop up. Click ok then when it finishes downloading, go onto DVD flick then go new then find where utorrent downloaded it will most likely be in downloads. Open that, then wait till it downloads.when its done go to img burn and insert a blank DVD in and click modes on top on img burn. Then, click build search the movie you downloaded it will have a DVD on fire as a sign open that then click build when its done go to mode then write then go write when its done it will prepare the disc and NOW YOU'RE DONE!!!
How can you test your CD burner?
- The easiest way is to look at the computer from the outside, if you see a CD-Drive with "CD-RW" or "CD-R" then you have a CD burner
- You can right click with mouse on any folder go down to send to it will have, your CD ROM to send to,if it don't then you don't have a CD burner on you computer.
- Also you can click on your start menu then click on My Computer, this will open a new window. This will have a list of the following, that is actually on you computer, your HardDrive(s) (usually your C drive), 3 1/2 FloppyDrive, CD Drive(s), Printer, Scanner, USB Port/Removable Disk, and some folders. If your CD drive is titled either CD-RAM Drive, CD-R Drive, CD-RW Drive, DVD-RAM Drive, DVD-R, or DVD-RW then you can burn CD's.
Explanation
CD stands for compact disc and is used to store picture files, text/word files, audio files, webpage files, pdf files, short video files, and folders of any of these types of files among many others. DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc (formerly Digital Video Disc) and can store what CD's plus some file types (formats) that CD's can not. DVD's can contain much larger amounts of data and the quality of the data when used directly from one, versus copying the data to your computer and using it without the CD/DVD, than that of a CD. Usually we use DVD's for movies, like the one you rent or buy and put in you DVD player, and for games that are very high quality like 3-d games. A Drive is a piece of hardware that stores files or runs software that stores files. In other words, you CD Drive is like a CD player for your computer. The R in CD's and DVD's stands for recordable. If you have a CD-R Drive or DVD-R Drive you can record /write/burn files to it but only once; you must make sure that you put a CD-R or DVD-R (the disc that will contain your music or other files) in the CD-R or DVD-R Drive. RW on the CD or DVD stands for rewritable and this means that the disc can be re-burned/re-recorded/rewrote multiple times. If your CD Drive or DVD Drive is titled CD-RW, CD-RAM, DVD-RW or DVD-RAM you can record those types of discs. You can use a DVD-RW Drive or DVD-RAM to record/burn and even re-burn CD's, but CD-RW Drives and CD-RAM Drives can not burn DVD's.
How many movies can be stored on a Blu-ray disc?
There are 16 layer single sided blu ray discs which have storage capacity of 512gb. That suggests at current abilities a 2 sided disc having capacity of over 1 terabyte.
The research and tools for more levels is ongoing. As such it is likely that this will expand a good deal more than that (there is no physical reason why we couldnt double this many more times)
Where can you purchase cheap CD-R discs?
Cheap Compact Discs, or CD's for short may be purchased from any the following top websites: Play, Amazon, eBay, Tower and CD Universe. There are even more web stores online, but there are too many to name them all.
A DVD-R is a DVD disc that allows you to put your own information onto it. The -R in DVD-R means "recordable." Unlike a DVD you get from the video store, DVD-Rs are blank to begin with. Once you write data to them, they cannot be erased. The most common DVD-R is a write once 4.7GB "general purpose" disc, which is roughly equal to 120-minutes of standard playing lime.
How much data can a stiffy disc hold?
1.44MB... They aren't that reliable which is why we now have the incredible USB! ;)
How do you copy CDs and DVDs to your hard drive as back-ups?
DVD's I'm not sure but I copy my CD's to my hard drive using Windows Media Player or any other software that converts a song from CD format to MP3 or WMA formats. A MP3 or WMA file is about a tenth the size of the original. I have over 4 thousand songs on my hard drive and it only takes up about 15 GB of space. I don't think you can back up DVD's without special pirating software.
What is the best home cd player?
Currently on the market of home cd players. You can find a wide variety including, Panasonic, Pioneer, Sony, and Bose. Those are some or the leading brands of the past years and they continue to top the charts.
How can you put a picture into a folder from Microsoft Word?
Click and drag the picture into a folder. If you have several pictures that need to be moved to a folder, highlight them all. Click and drag the blue box around all the pictures to select them. Let go of the mouse button then click and drag any photo into that folder and every picture should follow it.
Can you play Australian DVD in Bulgaria?
Not unless the DVD player has been hacked to become a multi-region player. Europe uses Region 2 DVD players and disks and Australia uses Region 4.
Can you convert an 8mm tape to DVD without the camcorder?
You can do this yourself if you have the right equipment or you can send it to a tape to DVD conversion service.
I recommend using a tape to DVD conversion service. You will get the best quality and it will be the least hassle. -
In principle it's easy, provided that you have (a) an "old" camcorder which can play your Video 8 / Hi 8 tapes/ VHS tapes, and also (b) a digital camcorder which can accept as input the analogue output from the "old" camcorder and produce digital output ("DV Out"). If you do have such equipment, the digital camcorder might either create a digital version of the footage (e.g. a mini DV tape) or it might be able to "pass through" so you can store the digital version straight to a PC or a DVD recorder.
If you put it onto a PC, you can then (optionally) edit it it and then burn a DVD.
I have done this myself using a Canon MV750i camcorder as the "pass through", but unfortunately the camcorder has just broken so I'm looking for another model which has this facility (it's probably cheaper to replace than repair). Does anyone know of a reasonably priced mini DV camcorder which offers this?
If you don't have the digital camcorder described above, you'll need to find a device which does the conversion or alternatively install a video capture card in your PC. Whatever else, you'll obviously have to have something that plays the old tapes (the "old camcorder" referred to above). Plus you need a powerfull enough computer to handle the real time capture of the video.
Why is your DVD player reading some discs but not others?
This is just the way it is. Most DVD players will not read all formats.
How do you run a DVD in CD-RW?
Depending on the model and features of the DVD player, some can play CD-RW and other formats. The printed materials supplied with the DVD player will state what formats the player can read/play.
Why would your DVD player not play DVD-RW discs?
all DVD players have a component that is programmed to read a certain list of disk types. there are many different types of components and yours probably reads the DVD+r instead of DVD-r. which it reads is a guessing games more often than not. only DVD recorders state which disk they are compatible with.
What is the purpose of CD covers?
CD's have covers so that they don't get scratched, and a cover protected them from being scratched. If a CD becomes scratched too much, it will no longer be able to be read.
How do you make a write protected CD burnable?
A program called "Power2Go" can be easily used to burn password protected cd's. It is an all in one media recorder. You will never need another program for burning cd/dvd.
Purchase it and follow the instructions to burn a secured data disc.
Burn a Secured Data DiscThe Secured Data Disc option allows you to burn password-protected data files to a CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM, Blu-ray, or HD DVD disc. You can also burn secured data disc with file name encryption. Users will not be able to see the encrypted file names without the password. Data files can include images and any other document files.Note: You cannot burn a secured data disc in Power2Go Express Mode.
Note: Bootable data discs are not available for secured data burning.
Burn a Data Disc in Power2Go ModeTo burn a data disc in Power2Go mode, do this:
- Open Power2Go. In the Select a Burning Task window, click the Secured Data Disc icon, then select the type of disc (CD, DVD, Blu-ray or HD DVD) you want to create.
- Enter a password for your secured data disc and re-enter the password again in the Confirm Password field.
- Check the checkbox next to Hide the file names in a secured disc if you wish to encrypt the file names in your disc. Click OK and the Data Disc window opens.
- Select your burning drive from the drop-down box.
- Highlight the files or folders you want to burn, then drag to the destination disc or click .
- To remove a file, highlight it, then click .
- To remove all files, click .
- To create a new folder in the directory, click . A folder is created under the current directory.
- When you have added all of the content that you want to burn, click . The Configuration/Information window opens to the Burner tab, to allow you to set your burning configuration. (For more information, see Burner Tab.)
- Make any necessary modifications to your burning configuration, then click Burn. Power2Go burns the disc.
- When burning is complete, select an option in the dialog box that opens:
- Click Print Label to print a disc label. The LabelPrint program opens. For information on using LabelPrint, see that program's online help system.
Note: LabelPrint is an optional feature for Power2Go. In your version of Power2Go, this feature may be limited or unavailable.
- Click View Log to view the burning log. The log opens in your default TXT editor, where you can view and save it.
Disc burned with Power2Go's secured data burning technology comes with a CyberLink Security Browser so that users can view the content of the disc.
Note: After you have inserted a secured data disc into the disc drive, the Security Browser will be automatically launched and prompts you for the password.If the Security Browser does not automatically launch when you insert a secured data disc into the disc drive, please navigate to your disc drive and double-click SecurityBrowser.exe to launch the Security Browser manually.
- Enter your password and the Security Browser window will be displayed.Select the files you want to extract and click .
- Click to search for files. Type part or all of the name of the file or folder.
- Click Size to look for files of a specific size.
- Click Modified Date to look for files that were created or modified on or between specific dates.
- Click to view files without extraction.
- If your secured data disc has multiple subfolders, click to go up one level to the previous folder.
- To change how you view items in the Security Browser, click .
a sequential access is when one have to go though all the data to retrieve the data wanted therefore it is time consuming
