How to burn an image to disk? This question is often asked by users who have not yet had to deal with recording images. Our review will allow readers to get the necessary theoretical minimum, which can immediately be successfully applied in practice. Your attention is also a small digest of programs that work with images. So we will solve the question "WHAT" to write the image to disk. Interesting? Then go ahead!
What is an “image”, why is it needed and why, how to burn an image to disk, how to work with it ... All these questions indicate the unquenchable interest and stable popularity of images in the lives of users, gamers and other computer fraternities.
In fact, the “image” is an exact digital copy of the copied disk. With all the features and nuances. Literally "one-on-one." In this form, information can be copied, transferred via the Internet, written to disk. Using special software, you can mount an image on a virtual drive and work with it as with a regular CD / DVD disc.
Image files are simply indispensable for copying, storing and transmitting valuable information, given that ordinary CDs can lose their condition under the influence of external factors (scratches, cracks, abrasions, and other mechanical damage).
The option of saving information in the form of an image is especially often used when the producer of digital content does not really want to be copied.
Image files are saved in certain formats. The most common formats are .iso / .nrg / .mdf / .img / .dmg / .bin. Accordingly, special programs are needed to work with these types of files. Consider a few prominent representatives of software that works with images and, among other things, knows "how to burn an image to disk."
1. DVD ImgBurn is a free program. Her specialization is the creation and recording of images. Among the amenities (except “free”) I would like to mention the Russian, simple and intuitive interface, support for a decent number of image formats. Of the supported formats, there are all necessary. To write an image to disk in this program, you need to click "Burn image to disk", specify the path to the image, insert a clean "blank" into the drive and click on the image with the image "burn". You can download the program from the developer's site, there is also a file with which the program becomes "Russian-speaking".
2. Alcohol 120% - paid software with very decent functionality. The list of supported image formats is impressive. Of all the functionality of the program, we are now interested in the moment associated with recording the image. How to work with her:
- After installation and registration procedure, open the program;
- In the main window we find the inscription “Burning CD / DVD from images”;
- We click on this inscription and get into the recording menu. Here you need to specify the path to the image. Select the desired file and click "Open";
- After reading the file information, click "Next";
- In the settings window for recording a disc, we change only what we are sure of;
- Press "START" and after a few minutes we get a "finished product".
3. NERO: Nero Express is one of the most widely used disc burning software. Successfully works with images in * .nrg formats; * .iso; * .cue; *. img. To record an image, you need to open the program window, select “Image, project, copy.” On the left, then select “Disk Image” on the right side and click on it. Then we find the image to be recorded, and open it. Before you write the image to disk, you only need to choose the type of media on which the project will be written. We press the magic button “Record” and after a few minutes we get either an exact copy of the disk or a boot disk (Windows, LiveCD).
To the list above, you can add more than a dozen defendants. Now you have a choice: which program to write the image to disk you already know. You even know “HOW” to do it. Everything else will be given by practice, practice, and only practice.