Totally *basic* question

[SloanFan]

This may be the most basic question ever asked here, but here goes: I have some vcd's that I want to make copies of. From what I've read here, I use a cd-rw to copy to my hard drive, and then use a program like Nero to copy to a blank disk.... But I've also read that you can do disk-to-disk.... So, which way results in better quality? And how do you do the disk to disk copying?.... Thanks for your help!

[cybermage26]

hehehehehe, basic is an understatement

Either way will work, wont really change the quality either way you do it, probably safer to copy the AVSEQ01.dat file from the MPEGAV folder on the VCD to hard drive and burn with Nero (using VCD template), doing this way you wont have to worry about buffers and all that shit dropping etc, well not as much anyway..

Just do it either way, you cant go wrong, browse around the site, it will tell you how to burn VCDs with Nero etc.

Good luck.

[ya_jai]

I'll say use NERO to copy on the fly (disk to disk) better. DO NOT use EZ creator for all cases. I copy with NERO all the time and never have any problems.
Or if you do have CloneCD, let use this one the best. With CloneCD you should read the image file( your cd) to HD and they write to CDR/W.

[SloanFan]

Thanks for the info! So here's another retarded question: If Nero and/or Clone make the software for burning, then what do you need a cd-rw drive for? Wouldn't a cd-rom drive and the right software be enough to make copies?.... cheers!

[tinycorkscrew]

A CD-ROM drive only reads CD's. It can't burn them.

You need a burner in order to use your burning software (Nero, CloneCD, etc). In the old days, you could probably buy a CD burner that only recorded to CD-Rs, but these days, all burners are CD-RWs, meaning that they can record CD-Rs and CD-RWs.