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How to Use the available Software
to Backup Various Data, Audio and Console CD's
1. Start Nero
2. Click on the CD-Copy icon in the New
Compilation dialogue window which
opens after you start Nero. If you have already opened Nero, you can reach
this dialogue window through the icon for "New Compilation".
3. Insert the Playstation CD into your CD
recorder
4, Select "Image" from copy
options and then locate a drive to copy the image
to approx. 730Mb will be needed.
5, Now select "Copy Options" and
uncheck the on the fly option. Select your
CD recorder as input device and choose (for safety considerations) 1x as read
speed.
6. Now Select "Read
Options" and select the following (if these options are
available for your recorder)
Number of retries before read error = 1
Read media catalogue number and ISRC = enabled
Ignore illegal TOC type = *Important* enable this when you have the following
CD layout (Data track, Audio Track, Data Track) or when any Data track follows
a Audio file, otherwise leave disabled.
Data Tracks: (Unreadable Data)
Continue copying = enabled
Data Mode 1:
Force Raw reading = enabled
On errors.. = Write uncorrected
Data Mode 2:
Force Raw reading = enabled
On errors.. = Write uncorrected
Audio Tracks:
Read audio with subchannel = enabled
Ignore read errors = enabled
Jitter correction = disabled
7. Select the Page "Burn: and
choose the following:
Determine maximum speed = disabled
Simulation = disabled
Write = enabled
Write Speed = (for safety
considerations) choose 1x as write speed
Write Method = should default to "Disk at Once" if available
Number of copies = 1
8. Now Click the "Copy CD"
button.
Nero will know analyse the CD and then begin the read phase by building
a image file to your hard drive.
9. At the completion of the read
phase, Nero will eject the CD and will then
prompt you to insert a blank CD-R disc.
10. At some stage, you will see a
message like "burn process was successful
with 2x(300 KB/s)". Just click OK.
11. Nero will give you the option to
save a log. Just click Discard.
Method using only your CD Recorder:
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Start DiskJuggler).
From the menu bar choose File and select New.
In the New Task window select "CD Copy from the same CD Recorder" and click
OK, remember for this task you will require approx 730Mb of free HD space for
the image file.
In the Task window select the following settings
(all other settings should be left default):
Source & Destination Tab:
Source & Destination = defaults to your CD Recorder
Advanced Tab:
Read speed = 1x (use for accurate read phase, select a faster
speed if necessary)
Select - Overlap Audio ReSync (move the small slider to the
middle)
ISRC and UPC = off
Scan gaps/Indexes = on (when possible)
Raw read/write = on
Select Ignore read errors = on
Open/close medium = off
Select Action and on the Pull-Down menu Select Write and set copies to 1
Under Method - Slower/Faster move the slider left to select:
Save the entire contents of the disc in a temporary file and write a 1X.
Click START to start the copy process,
You will be prompted after the read phase to insert a blank CDR disc.
Method using CD Player to CD Recorder:
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Start DiskJuggler).
From the menu bar choose File and select New.
In the New Task window select "CD Player to CD Recorder" and click OK,
In the Task window select the following settings
(all other settings should be left default):
Source & Destination Tab:
Source = Select your sorce CD Reader from the pull down menu
Destination = Select your CD Recorder and place a tick in the
box next to it
Advanced Tab:
Read speed = 1x (use for accurate read phase, select a faster
speed if necessary)
Select - Overlap Audio ReSync (move the small slider to the
middle)
ISRC and UPC = off
Scan gaps/Indexes = on (when possible)
Raw read/write = on
Select Ignore read errors = on
Open/close medium = off
Select Action and on the Pull-Down menu Select Write and set copies to 1
Under Method - Slower/Faster move the slider left to select:
Writes directly from the reader to the recorder(s) at 1X.
Click START to start the copy process.
CD Wizard Pro and Gold Edition |
Using MultiCopy:
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If you have one Drive then it should
be displayed in both the source and the destination. If you have two drives select which
is the source & destination.
Now click on the Details button.
Make sure you click on IGNORE READ ERRORS
this is VERY important. If you don't click it you can't copy the Psx Disc. Now
click on Devices button and change the write speed to 1x and leave the Data
read speed alone, if you have had problems with choppy audio in the past than
change Audio read speed to 1x.
You will notice that under the Copy
button there is a choice for write method
this should be left as the default choice of "Disk at Once" if your drive
supports
it. Make sure that "No Simulation" is not ticked before you press
"Start".
Prassi CD-Rep Professional |
When you start CD-Rep Pro the main window
will have to it's left a panel showing
the installed CD drives in your computer, place the original PSX CD in your CD
Writer or Reader, then right click with your mouse over the CD drive you placed
the source CD in.
In the menu choose "Medium
Explorer", this can also be called by pressing the
F4 key.
When the Medium Explorer dialogue box opens
it automatically scans the drive
selected and will report the source CD and its contents, e.g. Data tracks and
Audio tracks.
On this panel you will see a button marked
"Build Global CD-Image", click on this,
choose "Browse" then locate a drive to copy the image to approx. 700Mb
will be
needed, give the image a file name and then click on "Build".
CD-Rep Pro will know read the CD to
a image no other settings are required here
as CD-Rep Pro is fully automated.
Now that you have a image on your
hard drive you need to click on "New" from
the file menu, then select "Image File Job" available as one of the four
types of
jobs, click on OK twice.
You will now need to select your CD
Writer from the left panel by right clicking
over the CD Drive with your mouse, in the menu that pops up click on "Select
for Recording".
Now go to "Browse" to
locate and load where you placed your image file, next
choose your write speed 1x or 2x, in most cases 1x is better. If you are making
more than 1 copy then change the copies box to the amount required.
You are know ready to burn your
image, do this by clicking on the RED button
from the tool bar, you will be given an opportunity to do a test burn which is
advisable, if not click on the "Test Box" to remove the tick.
Click on "options" and
where it say's "When an error occurs" choose "Log and
Continue Recording" click OK then click on "Go Write"
INSTRUCTIONS:
At the beginning of Cdrwin select the third icon "Extract Disc/Tracks/Sectors"
The following are the settings on the next page:
1. Extract Mode = Disc Image/Cuesheet
2. Reading Options = Copy RAW
3. Error Recovery = Replace
4. Jitter Correction = Auto
5. Subcode Analysis = Auto
6. MAX on both Data & Audio Speed (Some hardware may require you to select
slower reading speeds if you encounter read errors, i.e. 1x
speed)
7. Read Retry Count = 10
8. Subcode Threshold = 300
9. Choose an image file name and select a location by clicking the box to the right
of "Image Filename" that has 3 small dots. (default is
directory where cdrwin is
located), you wil require upto 730Mb of free space.
10. Click "START" and the entire disc will be read to the image file
location that you
specified in step #9.
Back at the beginning of Cdrwin select the first icon "Record Disc"
The following are the settings on the next page:
11. Click on "Load Cuesheet" (It will be located
in the same directory as the image
file location that you selected in step #9).
12. Under Recording Options choose a writing speed. I always use 2x but it's best
to
choose 1x for the first burn.
13. Click "Start Recording"
A couple of minutes will pass without any screen activity.
During this time the internal cache is being loaded with
data and the leadin track is
automatically being written before the actual first track(s) of the image are
written
to the CD.
The command line you should use to make a
backup is:
SNAPSHOT cdimage /ID=0:3:0 /SUBCODE=AUTO
You will need to change the
/ID=0:3:0 to fit your drive, where 3 is the ID number assigned to this SCSI CD-R, most IDE
drives will have the ID as /ID=1:0:0, you
can find out by running CDRWin then choose the "Device and Setings"
button,
where your drive is listed to the left you will see the ID numbers.
The SUBCODE option is required on some CDs, also please Note: that not all
CD-Recorders support subcodes!, and those that don't require it will still work
with the option set. It basically puts a 2 second "gap" of silence
between the
audio tracks. Those CDs that do require will lock up if its not used. Now this is
mentioned in the text file that comes with the program, but myself and many
people overlooked it and wasted a few blanks.
Now that the image file is created,
we need to write it to a blank CD.
The command line for this is as follows:
DAO cdimage.cue /ID=0:3:0
You may want to add /SPEED=1 if you
are having problems.
Select the text below and save it as
a .BAT file(i.e. CDCOPY.BAT) in the same directory that DAO/Snaphot is in, remember to
edit the batch file with the proper
ID for your CD-R drive:
@echo off <-----start of batch
file------>
echo off
cls
echo Put the original disc in the CD writer now.
pause
SNAPSHOT cdimage /ID=0:3:0 /SUBCODE=AUTO /IGNORE /NOCONFIRM
cls
echo Take out the original and put in a blank CD now.
pause
DAO cdimage.cue /ID=0:3:0 /NOCONFIRM /BEEP /SPEED=2
cls
echo Press Control and C to abort file erase
pause
erase cdimage.bin
erase cdimage.cue
cls
echo Copy completed.
echo Image files have been erased.
@echo off <-----end of batch file------>
The NOCONFIRM option makes the
program turn off any user input. This way
all you have to do is type in the name of the batch file, follow the onscreen
prompts and nothing else but two strokes of a key after inserting the discs
in to the drive and your backup is made and the image files are erased!
2 Data Tracks Explained?
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Many people claim to have troubles
with a CD that has two (or more) data tracks. There is an easy way around this little
problem and its very similar to the 4 second problem.
The first thing you have to do is
manually convert each track in to its own file.
How do we do this? First we must look at the number and type of tracks . A
program called Table Of Contents or TOC, run it with a PlayStation disc in the
drive and it will list each track and will tell you if its a data or audio track.
example:
TOC /ID=0:3:0
Once you know how many tracks there
are and what they are use the program CDCLIP to make an image file of each track. Lets say
we have a disc with 5 tracks, the first two are data and the last three are audio. For
this disc we would do the following:
CDCLIP track1.raw /DATA /ID=0:3:0
/TRACK=1
CDCLIP track2.raw /DATA /ID=0:3:0 /TRACK=2
CDCLIP track3.WAV /ID=0:3:0 /TRACK=3
CDCLIP track4.wav /ID=0:3:0 /TRACK=4
CDCLIP track5.wav /ID=0:3:0 /TRACK=5
Well have to make a CUE file by hand
now! This is one for the above example:
FILE TRACK1.RAW MODE2 2352
TRACK 01
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE TRACK2.RAW MODE2 2352
TRACK 02
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE TRACK3.WAV AUDIO 2352
TRACK 03
INDEX 00 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:02:00
FILE TRACK4.WAV AUDIO 2352
TRACK 04
INDEX 00 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:02:00
FILE TRACK5.WAV AUDIO 2352
TRACK 05
INDEX 00 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:02:00
You'll want to use a text editor to
make your cue file. Then you can run DAO like normal and make your backup! The above
example of a cue file does put the
SUBCODE 2 second gap for each audio file. For those that do have this problem,
this solution is all you'll ever need. If the disc has more than two data tracks,
just make any adjustments as needed.
4 Seconds?
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4 seconds is the minimal length of a
track per CDR standards, that is standard
your CD Writer uses to make CDs. Now that's not the standard for CD
manufacturers! You'll get and error when trying to convert the image file to a
blank CD when this situation arises. So how do you backup a CD with an audio
track that is less than 4 seconds in length?
The first thing you have to do is
manually convert each track in to its own file.
How do we do this? First we must look at the number and type of tracks. Use the
program called Table Of Contents or TOC, run it with source disc in the drive and
it will list each track and will tell you if its a data or audio track.
example:
TOC /ID=0:3:0
Once you know how many tracks there
are and what they are use the program CDCLIP to make an image file of each track. Lets say
we have a disc with 5 tracks, the first a data and the last four are audio. For this disc
we would do the following:
CDCLIP track1.raw /DATA /ID=0:3:0
/TRACK=1
CDCLIP track2.wav /ID=0:3:0 /TRACK=2
CDCLIP track3.wav /ID=0:3:0 /TRACK=3
CDCLIP track4.wav /ID=0:3:0 /TRACK=4
CDCLIP track5.wav /ID=0:3:0 /TRACK=5
You can see from TOC which files are
less than 4 seconds with a little match or
you could make a note when getting the errors. For our purpose, lets say that
track 5 is problem maker. Well need to load it in to a WAV editor. I use the Sound
Recorder that comes with WINDOWS 95/98.
It may say the length of the file is
5.5 seconds while DAO says it less than 4
seconds, I could never figure this out. What I've done is the following:
With the Sound Recorder loaded,
press the record button with no mike plugged
in to the sound card. Make a recording of about a second. Save this file as
BLANK.WAV
Now load TRACK5.WAV (our example of
a file less than 4 seconds) and play it.
You'll be at the end of the file now. Select EDIT from the menu and then INSERT
FILE. Insert the BLANK.WAV and repeat it until the length is at least 7 seconds.
The reason for 7 seconds? nothing in particular, its just large enough that well
won't have to do this again. Now save the file!
Well have to make a CUE file by hand
now! This is one for the above example:
FILE TRACK1.RAW MODE2 2352
TRACK 01
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE TRACK2.WAV AUDIO 2352
TRACK 02
INDEX 00 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:02:00
FILE TRACK3.WAV AUDIO 2352
TRACK 03
INDEX 00 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:02:00
FILE TRACK4.WAV AUDIO 2352
TRACK 04
INDEX 00 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:02:00
FILE TRACK5.WAV AUDIO 2352
TRACK 05
INDEX 00 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:02:00
You'll want to use a text editor to
make your cue file. Then you can run DAO
like normal and make your backup! DAO will make any corrections necessary
to the file size to make it fit perfectly in the allotted sectors. The above
example of a cue file does put the SUBCODE 2 second gap for each audio file.
This can be a pain. |
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