Is it possible to burn from a CD/DVD drive back to itself...?

[Caveman]

Seems like I should be able to take a CD or DVD and then tell the OS to copy from E: to E: (if that's the designated drive for the floppy or DVD)... Put the disk in, download the contents to RAM (or HDD), and then load a CD or DVD into that same drive and burn the contents back to the same drive...?

Doesn't seem to be a way to do this... What am I missing?

 

[Trey22]

Care to clarify? Do you mean using the same drive to make a copy of a CD/DVD?

 

[krotchy]

nero tools and tons of other software burning tools do this for you. Called CD Copy or DVD Copy within them generally.

 

[mechBgon]

If you have a burner that came with Nero Express, then just fire up Nero or SmartStart. Or put in one CD, copy its contents to the HDD, put in a blank disc, and paste them, then Burn These Files To CD.

 

[Caveman]

Thanks all... Yes, I'm trying to put a CD or DVD in the drive and then copy the contents of the disk back to the drive (after I'm prompted to insert a blank disk)... Will give it a go...

 

[Tostada]

Every burning software I've ever seen lets you do that. That's the default option for "copy" or "exact copy" or whatever. What seems to be the problem?

Note that the software isn't going to store the disc in RAM -- it copies the disc to a temp image file then burns the image when you put in the blank. With more unfriendly software, you'll sometimes have to say "create image" then put in the blank disc and say "burn image," but it's not usually that complicated.