bizzybody Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 I want to burn recovery DVDs from my Acer laptop, but it only has a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive. (I made a set of recovery CDs, 12 of them!)I'd like to be able to make the DVD set, which takes 3 discs.If I had a virtual burner I could create ISO image files then copy those to my desktop with DVD burner. It'd have to respond to software eject commands and have a way for the user to "insert" a new, virtual blank disc.I do have a USB 2.0 to IDE cable but it doesn't work for burning CDs or DVDs because it just quits working when a data transfer has been going for too long. (Gets about halfway through a CD-R then quits.)It'd be so much easier if Acer had just put DVD and/or CD images on the hard drive where the user can get at them! The recovery stuff is all in a hidden partition a bit less than 10 gigs at the front of the hard drive. That's space I could really use on the 80gig drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McStarfighter Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 The only virtual disc burner (CD & DVD) I know is VirtualCD. It can do this since version 8. http://www.virtualcd-online.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albator Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 I second that, I have tested this software and it work.May I suggest, that you clone your system with a more effecient way ?Dont clone the paging file and any personnal data or games. Only clone windows andprogram files. it should not take more than 2 gig compressed.You would be able to burn it on a DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizzybody Posted November 9, 2007 Author Share Posted November 9, 2007 Welll, that didn't work. Acer's eRecovery Management completely ignores the Virtual-CD burner- only showing the physical DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive in the option list.Found this link elsewhere on the fora here. http://www.ztekware.com/ But that one doesn't create a virtual DVD burner, only CD-RW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 What about Nero Image Drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albator Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 What about Nero Image Drive?Like deamon tools, it only emule dvd. not dvdr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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