Resolved Free CD copying program for Windows 7?

I'm a Windows XP user (yes, still using my old PC) trying to help out a new Windows 7 user (just bought a new PC) to find a free CD-copying program.

He has both a CD/DVD reader+burner and a CD/DVD reader installed on his new HP Pavilion P6250T. He was previously using Roxio 5 software to do this under WinXP, but it won't install under Win7. We just spent almost three hours trying to find a free program online and all we can come up with are programs (like CD-Burner-XP) that will work fine under Windows 7 but will not allow straight copying of one CD to another. They all want to first rip the tracks off the source CD and then burn them onto the blank CD. He wants to create an exact duplicate of the original CD in one easy step. By the way, he is a musician and the CD he wants to copy is his own, home-made disc with his own (not commercial) music on it and he wants to make dupes for handouts to friends. He is not interested in making dupes of commercial CDs.

Can anyone help? Thank you.

Frank D

 

If all he wants is to make copies of his work for friends can't he just keep a master on his computer... 6-700Mb isn't much nowadays and a 20Gb free space could hold 30+ albums.

 

Pete,

As the saying goes, "you nailed it!" That's exactly what he's been looking for. It's neat, sweet and to the point. On the not-so-positive side, there's a lot of advertising and persuading to upgrade, but as long as that can be withstood, it does the job we asked of it. He has installed it and used it already, and is quite happy with it. For his other CD-ripping and burning needs, the CD Burner XP program does the job nicely. Thank you for your tip!

Frank

 

Wildfire,

You're right, that's an approach we hadn't thought of. He had this master disc on hand and just wanted to be able to make copies of it, so we didn't think of going back to the originals on his hard drive. But that's a workable approach too. Thanks!

Frank


Frank

 

I only use free ImgBurn for all of my burning needs:

 

Kimsland,

It looks to me like ImgBurn works fine (I downloaded it and looked into its capabilities) in creating copies of discs on PCs that have only one CD/DVD burner. However, in my friend's case, he has two drives and wants to use both of them to create disc copies in one go, which obviously is faster and uses fewer steps than copying a disc, storing the image on the PC, and then burning that image to another disc.

Even though Nero 9 Lite comes with the Ask toolbar (which, by the way, cannot be omitted from the installation), and has limited functions, it copies using both drives, so in my friend's case it is the preferable way to go.

Thank you for your suggestion.

Frank D

 

Tony,

Thanks for your suggestion. I'm using Windows XP with good old, free Nero 6, which happily does everything, and I wish there was also one free program for Windows 7 that did everything, but since apparently there isn't, and I'm not the end-user and can't anticipate what he's going to want to do, and all these programs are free and he's got lots of space on his new PC, I'm going to recommend that he keep a version of all three: CD Burner XP (the latest one for Windows 7), Nero 9 Lite, and ImgBurn on his PC and use whichever one seems right for his purposes when he's ready to make his disc copies.

Frank

 

I Downloaded CDBurnerXP it is free and simple to use and burns to CD or DVD and has format feature also, I use windows 7 I tryed Infrarecorder also on my windows 7 also (it was Free also) But it crashed my system twice for some reason So I went to CDBurnerxp and all is going smooth now.
Just google CDBrurner XP to find it or go here if the link come thru http://www.cdburnerxp.se/download.php

John

 

Thanks TonyT, that's the problem of not having Windows 7 in front of me (although I'm sure there are lengthy MS info on this)

Looking at the Comparison of ISO image software, I presently use UltraISO
The "Trial" version of UltraISO shows a pop-up registration dialog at program startup and cannot save an ISO image of greater than 300MB. (some think that's fine though)