Save Disc Image

The purpose of this tool is to save a compact disk into an image file (or set of files) on your hard disk. The saved image can then be used further for the restoration or the duplication of compact disk. To perform this operation you need to load a compact disk into the recording device, to choose this device as the source device, to select the type and parameters for the image to be saved, then to press the Save as... button. You can then set desired name for the image file in the file selection dialog that's displayed and press the button OK.

Warning: Ensure your hard drive has enough free space. For DVD, HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disks copying, the file system on hard drive has to support files with sizes exceeding 4GB (JFS).

By default, a standard ISO image that can be used in most of the burning softwares will be created, unless cloning of all data of a disk or saving audio CD image has been selected.

Warning: Saving of an ISO image of a multisession compact disk is impossible. If there is no necessity for creation of an exact disk image, copy all files from compact disk to a hard disk and create a new image via Burn Files tool.

The management controls for image saving are listed below:

Source device
Compact disk drive that contains the disk which needs to get saved into an image file. Use the button Select... located near by the device description to select the correct drive.

Speed
Allows to choose the reading speed of a compact disk. Writing/reading speed of compact disks is specified as a coefficient of the minimal speed for this type of media. The maximal speed (MAX) is an optimal choice in most cases. In case of errors during the reading of a compact disk it is possible to lower the read speed by using the button Select... near by the speed value.
Eject disk after reading
The media will be ejected from the drive after saving completion.
Do not abort on errors
Prevents the operation from aborting when an unrecoverable error is detected while reading the data stream.
Retry count is
Number of attempts to read block of data. Reading error will be generated passed this number.
Clone all disk data
Saves all available data (including auxillary data) and the full table of content of a compact disk. The table of content is stored in a file with the same name as the image file with a .toc extension. The saved image is not a standard one and can be burned to another disk using DVD/CD Toys only. This mode can be used to backup a "copy-protected" disk or a Video-CD.

This option is ignored for the copy of an audio compact disk (this mode is described below).

Warning: The cloning mode is only supported with CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW disks.
Save audio compact disk
Saves all tracks from an audio compact disk into a standard PCM WAVE format data file and an accompanying file with the description of the according track positions (Cue sheet). The file with the tracks description has the same name as the image file and has a .cue extension. This image format is not a standard one, but it is widespread and used by most of the burning softwares.