Note:
To directly copy a CD, you need to have two CD drives connected to your Macintosh system: a CD-ROM drive (for the source CD), and a CD-writer drive (to make the copy). You can still make a copy if you only have one CD drive by selecting that drive from both the source and CD Writer tabs. Dragon Burn will make a temporary disc image and then prompt you to put a blank CD in your recorder. You will need to have enough free hard disk space to hold the temporary image file when copying a CD from a single drive.
To copy a CD:
If
you haven't already done so, start the Dragon Burn application. When you
first start Dragon Burn, the Dragon Burn window appears on the screen.
If the Dragon Burn window is not currently on the screen, choose New
Layout from the File menu.
Click the CD Copy icon to open the "Copy a CD" window.
Insert the source CD (the one you want to copy) into the source drive of your Macintosh.
Click the Source tab. The Source pane appears, as shown in the following diagram:
Select the CD drive that contains your source CD.
Click the CD Writer tab. The CD Writer pane appears, as shown in the following diagram:
Click to choose the CD-writer connected to your Macintosh system. If you have more than one CD-writer available, click to choose the one that you want to use.
Notes:
If your CD recorder does not appear in this list, click the Show All Devices check box. This will display a list of all the devices (CD-ROM, hard drive, etc.) that are connected to your Macintosh system
You can also select the CD Image Writer to specify that the contents of the CD will be written as a CD Image File. For more information about this option, refer to the section entitled Using a Disc Image File
Press the Eject button on your CD-recorder and insert a blank (recordable) CD into the drive tray. Press the Eject button a second time to close the drive tray, and make the blank CD available for use.
Note:
If you are using a single CD drive you will be prompted to remove the source disc and replace it with a blank piece of CD-R/RW media.
Click the Options tab. The Options pane appears, as shown in the following diagram:
The first
time you make a copy of a particular kind of CD (audio, data, etc.),
select Simulate Only mode. This will cause Dragon Burn to use your Macintosh
and the CD-writer mechanism to go through all the actions of making a
CD copy without actually recording to
the CD. Once Dragon Burn has successfully "simulated"
the recording, you will return to this step and select the Write mode
to create the actual CD.
If you want to specify a recording speed, click on the Recording Speed
pop-up menu, and choose the setting that you want to use. The default
setting is "Fastest," which sets the CD-writer to record at
the fastest speed. More information about choosing a different speed for
your CD-writer appears in the section entitled Troubleshooting.
The other settings available in this pane are described in the section
entitled Options
Settings.
Click the Write tab. The Write pane appears, as shown in the following diagram:
Click
to choose Write Session or Write Disc:
Write Session. This setting instructs Dragon Burn to write the
contents of your source CD as a new volume on the destination disc. Depending
upon the size of your source CD, this may leave space available for subsequent
recording on the CD that you create.
Write Disc. This setting instructs Dragon Burn to completely
fill your destination CD with the contents of the source CD. This is the
normal choice, so that the destination CD becomes a copy of the source
CD.
You can find more information about the differences between Write Session
and Write Disc in the Glossary.
At this point, Dragon Burn begins writing to the CD inserted in your CD-writer drive. A progress window appears, as shown in the following diagram:
The first time you are copying a CD; you have selected the Simulate Only setting on the Options pane. In this case, the progress window shows the progress of this simulation, without actually writing to the CD.
When Dragon Burn is finished creating your CD copy, the completed disc will eject from your CD-writer drive. Click the Log tab.
The first time you are copying a CD, this Log pane will report the results of the recording simulation. If the Log pane reports "Completed Successfully," return to step #9 and select the Write mode. Repeat the rest of this procedure from step #9.
At this point, your CD copy is complete
and ready for use. You should review the contents of the Log pane, and
make sure that Dragon Burn hasn't reported any Errors or Warnings that
relate to the CD copy you've created.
If you want to create a second (or subsequent) copy of the same CD, click
the Write CD button that appears in the Log pane.
This procedure is complete. If there were no Errors or Warnings reported in the Log pane (step #14), you can use your CD copy with your Macintosh the same as you would the original (source) CD.
If Errors or Warnings were reported in step #14, refer to the Troubleshooting section (in Chapter 4: Reference).