Making a Clone of a CD Using Disk Utility

[Italchef]

I hope someone can help me...
I have kids and basically everything gets wrecked in this house. I buy cd's and then like to make copies so that the kids can use them which means that they get destroyed. This way I still have a perfect backup should I need to make another. I used to do this with my old PC and I love my iMac but have made too many coasters and its making my monkey crazy!
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Mick

[Nermal]

1. Insert CD.
2. Launch Disk Utility.
3. On the left, there will be 3 CD icons. Click the middle one (probably called Session 1).
4. Images menu -> New -> Bottom choice.
5. Give it a name.
6. Image Format: DVD/CD Master.
7. Save.
8. Wait patiently.
9. Images -> Burn.
10. Find the image.
11. Let it write to CD.

Hope this helps :)

[virividox]

if you have some cash lyiing about, toast by roxio is a great program, you can make disc images, burn dvds, vcds, its an overall great cd authorting program, i swear by it.

[Italchef]

Thanks guys...one thing:
I"m only getting 2 cd icons in the window...
one for the drive
one for the cd.
Therefore no icon marked session...
any ideas?

[acidrock]

hey I'm not sure how big your hard drive is but why not just back your music up on your computer? I have on mine, that way if I somehow loose a Cd i can just re burn it. I have all my music on my computer, actually, and I use it as my stero, it's kinda cool, every time I hear a Cd which is like 7-12 hours of the day, I don't need to put one in, and it's easy to make mix Cd's etc. This way you also don't end up burnning your entire collection, god that could kill.
But I would recommend Toast.

[Italchef]

Thanks everyone for posting here and helping me out. I've taken your advice and went out and bought a copy of Toast and the problem has been solved. I had a burning app on my PC but thought that I could do it all with the Mac utility. It is just that though; a utility.
Thanks again,
Mick