Comments on: How to burn, copy, and backup a CD, DVD, or HD DVD for free

By: Fabrice

Fabrice — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:55:39 +0000

I have a big problem! I can not read my cd burned on any drive! Thank you in advance for help …

Fabrice

By: Jore

Jore — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:39:59 +0000

The best program for backing up your DVDs whether they are copy-protected or not is DVD Shrink. It’s also free, which is nice.

I’ve also heard DVDFab works well, but it’s pretty expensive.

By: Neelman

Neelman — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:25:00 +0000

I’ve been using ImgBurn for years and absolutely love it. You can burn ISO images, create ISO images, burn DVDs, burn audio CDs and lots more! Great software.

By: Angel

Angel — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:06:23 +0000

please tell me about a simple free dvd copier software that lets you copy any movie and thats not crap and that is not a trial! thanks

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:04:51 +0000

Thanks for the instructions. I recently bought a large external hard drive and I will be converting my CDs and DVDs into ISO files that I can run from there. Sweet!

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:01:53 +0000

What did I do wrong? I copied doc files to a CD. The CD shows the 100MB is used. But I can’t find anything on the CD. The Index is blank. How do I fix this and recover doc files? Thank you.

By: dakota turner

dakota turner — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:10:34 +0000

hey i need help. i need to burn a music video for a project at school and i dont know how to do it. could you help me?

By: akishore

akishore — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:04:52 +0000

@Woody – If you type “merge video files” or “combine video files” in Google, there are lots of programs out there that can help you do this.

By: Woody Walters

Woody Walters — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:16:08 +0000

How do I tie mulitple video files together for burning to a CD or DVD? If I simply add them one at a time it will burn them separately but only play them back one at a time instead of consecutively without prompting.

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By: Caren Mikota

Caren Mikota — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:57:55 +0000

DVD movie burning software. I recently wanted a good DVD movie burning software and found that there is a lot out there at a pretty good price and most do not have the decrypter to unlock the Hollywood movies, which becomes another problem finding one that works with the software you just purchased. After a few tries I found 2 software’s that go with each other. Burn a great movies with all the extras and both are absolutely free software’s for download. It was this site that helped me the most but you didn’t tie these softwares together for me so I thought I would for future readers and tried to make it simple for us who are not IT people.

DVD Shrink 3.2 creates a ISO file for you that you burn in ImgBurn.

DVD Shrink 3.2. Put you DVD in your DVD burner. In DVD Shrink select “open disk” and select the dvd drive you are using and highlight your movie. Then select the icon at the top that says “Backup”. You have the option to delete extras here and you will notice at the top of the screen the green line lets you know if your movie will fit on one DVD. For the most part the defaults are OK (Note there are additional options for larger DVD’s and dual layer DVD’s).
First question note that most of your movies are from the US. Under” Select backup target” use the drop down box and select “ISO Image File”. Set your target folder to one you can find when you go to burn the DVD in ImgBurn. Select “OK” and you are off copying your movie that is decrypted and ready to go for burning. This also works with many DVD buring softwares that you may already have.

But….if you don’t have one…..use ImgBurn a completely free software for download.

ImgBurn. Select “Write Image file to disc” and the software opens up. (There are a number of additional options but the defaults is a good starting point for new users) Under Source select your movie from the target folder where you had DVD Shrink put it. This should be a ISO file as you requested in DVD Shrink. Highlight it and select open. Under destination you should have your DVD writer selected. If you don’t want to go through the test mode or verify just unselect these and click on the green arrow below.

DONE. Now it is just a matter of time and you have your movie copied and ready to go to you DVD player.

By: Leti

Leti — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:14:09 +0000

does this free software allow you to copy copyright dvd’s?

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:32:43 +0000

Howdy,

I really appreciated your bit on “Imgburn”. It’s a great help.

I need some FREE software that easily rips DVDs into MPEG2.

The AVS4you is not free anymore, and the so called free trial puts crap on the screen of your ripped video. Do you know of any thing free that doesn’t put this crap on the screen?

By: robert

robert — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:30:46 +0000

how can i burn a program off laptop to cd?