DISK BURN vs DISK COPY?

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Can someone kindly explain the difference between copying a disk (using disk
copy) and burning a disk image to a second disk. When would you use one in
preference to the other?

Thank you
 
Can someone kindly explain the difference between copying a disk (using disk
copy) and burning a disk image to a second disk. When would you use one in
preference to the other?
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First: there is a difference between the terms "copy" and "burn",
unless you're talking about copying/burning to optical media. Are you?

Your turn.

DDW
 
DDW said:
First: there is a difference between the terms "copy" and "burn",
unless you're talking about copying/burning to optical media. Are you?

Your turn.

DDW
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Just a standard CD-DVD player/burner. And I'm talking about CD's, not
DVD's.

Thank you.
 
Just a standard CD-DVD player/burner. And I'm talking about CD's, not
DVD's.
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"Copying" burns the files to the media in uncompressed form that you
can access with Explorer.

"Burning an image" burns everything into a single compressed file
that would probably require a proprietary browser (related to the
software you use to do the imaging) to access.

DDW
 
its_my_dime said:
Just a standard CD-DVD player/burner. And I'm talking about CD's, not
DVD's.

Thank you.
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CD or DVD makes no difference..

Disk copy from one CD/DVD to another. The entire contents are copied such
that both are identical at the end of the process..

Burning an image to a CD/DVD. Generally, the image file type is 'ISO', and
the process converts the ISO file to a bootable form on the recipient
CD/DVD.




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DDW said:
"Copying" burns the files to the media in uncompressed form that you
can access with Explorer.

"Burning an image" burns everything into a single compressed file
that would probably require a proprietary browser (related to the
software you use to do the imaging) to access.

DDW
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Wrong, Kojak. An image, ahh, never mind. I doubt you'd get it :(
 
DDW said:
"Copying" burns the files to the media in uncompressed form that you
can access with Explorer.

"Burning an image" burns everything into a single compressed file
that would probably require a proprietary browser (related to the
software you use to do the imaging) to access.
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Crap.

Burning an image is the same as copying the entire disk. It doesn't put
everything into a single compressed file, and it does not have anything to
do with browsers (proprietary or otherwise).
 
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