With Dragon Burn, you can easily make copies of any files and folders on your Macintosh. You can use the Finder to drag-and drop your files and folders onto the Dragon Burn Layout window, or you can use the Select File or Folder dialog box to select the files and folders that you want.
Dragon Burn supports both CD-R (write once) and CD-RW (write and then re-write) media. This makes Dragon Burn quick and easy to use for making archive copies of your computer data (using CD-R media), as well as backup copies that can be updated (using CD-RW media).
To create a Data CD(CD-ROM):
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 Data CD icon to open the "Data CD" window. A new, Untitled Layout window appears.
In the Control Tabs that appear at the top of the Layout window, the Data tab is selected automatically. The Data pane is used to list the files and folders that will be written onto the CD. There are two ways to choose your files and folders in the Data pane:
Drag and
drop files and folders from the Finder. Simply drag the files and
folders that you want into the Data pane, and release the mouse button.
The files and folders that you have selected appear as a scrolling list
in the Data pane.
or:
Click Add
When you have added the files and folders that you want to include on the CD, the Layout window will display a list of those items, as shown in the following diagram:
If you've accidentally added a file or folder that you do not want to include on the CD, click to select the item, and then click the Remove Item button.
Note:
As you add files and folders to the list, the total combined size of the files and folders appears in the lower-right corner of the Data pane. Make sure that the combined size of the files and folders does not exceed the capacity of your CD media (generally, 1% less than the rated maximum capacity of the CD. For example, if the CD is rated for a maximum of 650MB, you should not try to write more than 644MB).
When you are satisfied with the list of files and folders for your new CD, click the CD Writer tab.
If your CD-writer does not appear in the list of recorder devices, click the Rescan button. Dragon Burn will then display a list of drives connected to your Macintosh system.
Press the Eject button on your CD-writer drive, 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.
Click the Options tab. The Options pane appears, as shown in the following diagram:
The first time you create a particular kind of CD (audio, data, etc.), choose the 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 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. Do not choose a speed faster
than the highest rating for your particular CD-writer. 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.
If any items are listed in the Unresolved Issues area of the Write pane, they must be corrected before you proceed. Clicking the Show button automatically takes you to the Layout pane where you make the setting for the issue that needs to be resolved.
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. This
disc is finalized and no more data may be added to that CD.
You can find more information about the differences between Write Session
and Write Disc in the Glossary.
Dragon Burn begins writing to the CD inserted in your CD-writer drive. A progress window appears, as shown in the following diagram:
When Dragon Burn is finished creating your custom CD, the completed disc will eject from your CD-writer drive. Click the Log tab to view the status of the recording process.
The first time you are copying a CD, this Log pane will report the results of the recording simulation. If the Log pane reports "Simulation Successful," return to step #8 and repeat the rest of this procedure from step #8.
This procedure is complete.
At this point, your Data CD 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 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.
If Errors or Warnings were reported in step #12, refer to the Troubleshooting section (in Chapter 4: Reference).
Note:
If you close the Layout window or quit Dragon Burn, you are prompted to save the settings you have made in the Layout window. This is the same as saving a Layout, as described in the following section.