BlindWrite : quick guide.

BlindWrite 5 is a backup tool to produce a working copy of your existing media. It can be used to backup cd/dvd data, Music, games.
BlindWrite first extract the full content of your media ( cd / dvd ) and create an image into your harddrive. Then you can backup these files for later use or immediatly create a copy on a blank media.

Blindwrite IS NOT Specialized into the DVD Video backup, if you need an application to backup your movie collection ( respecting the fair use ), You should download one of selected applications listed in this page : http://www.vso-software.fr/dvdvideo.htm

Also BlindWrite doesn't care about the content of the cd or dvd and it is not designed to create cd or dvd from files but only from an image of the full media. If you need a product for your general burning uses, take a look at CopyToDVD from : http://www.vso-software.fr

Why there are 3 buttons Copy/Read/Write ?

There are 3 options / buttons :

Copy : Automatically read the content of your media to the harddrive and then write to a media
Read : only extract an image to the hard drive
Write : write a image stored on the local drive to a blank media

The purpose of Blindwrite is to Copy/Paste the media you want to backup. Therefore, it needs to extract both data and physical informations from the media to produce the closest copy technically possible with your hardware. To extract these physicals information, the internal format .B5T is required. If you are expert and understand what is involved into the use of the .ISO format, you can consider this option for a high compatible image extraction. BUT be aware some copies ( games for example ) may not work with this profile and format of storage.

The 3 options allows you to have a fine control of your backups. Extract an image and keep it on your harddrive for further reproduction or simply to use it in a virtual tool ( see www.vso-software.fr )

How to use profiles ?

Profiles are preset files to tune some options. If you are not sure about which one to use, please select Automatic. If you have an error ( topologie extraction ), please select another one, or contact our support joining your log file for assistance.

Automatic : you are not sure, deep analysis is applied to your media.
Normal : a regular cd data.
Iso : high compatible format which can be used by most recording software and virtual drive tools.

others Settings and informations.

Settings : some settings are available to tune the application, but most of operation are now completely automatic.
You can easily find over internet more profiles or tools to extend BlindWrite.

Your images files are stored by default to : my documents/blindwrite.

Frequently Asked Question

Q : it is displayed : copy protected , what to do ?
A : it happens with dvd video as it is forbidden to break encryption in most countries, unless you are a citizen of countries where it is allowed you can't backup using delivered profiles. You should look at specialized products : http://www.vso-software.fr/dvdvideo.htm

Q : The extraction is SOOOO slow !
A : Some CDs contains bad sectors ( in purpose or not ) and the hardware used may do a big differences. There is no rules, but most of times the slow read will occurs on the first beginning part of the media, once this 5% percent of media extracted, the speed should be back to normal .. so patience, or try with different cd / dvd readers or writers to find one who manages the errors with a good speed.

Assistance

If you need to submit us a problem. please locate the file BW5.log in the root of the installation folder of blindwrite 5 and connect to http://www.vso-software.fr to contact us.

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