I was trying to make a copy of a data CD today (from a friend with a windows CD writer, and the format is iso 9660, so accessible by both wintel and mac). Have done it before - with another disk - very smoothly with DiskCopy. The way i did it was first created a 'DVD/CD master copy' on the Desktop, then burned that to a blank CD-R.
Today, DiskCopy stopped abruptly while creating the master copy with a very cryptic message "Image Volume operation failed with error 999 (internal error)" Tried again a couple of times, then tried with YuBurner, which did not work. (Ran thru it in seconds, but the CD-R ended up with no data, just the label
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So i borrowed a colleague's Roxio Toast 5.1.1; it gives me the option to create an image on disk before writing it, so clicked that. For the next hour (when i left for work), Toast was still creating the image file, and by the progress meter, seemed to have done less than half of it! (For all i know, it might still be going). Is this normal? I was hoping to see Toast zip thru this task, so that i would be motivated to buy it myself, but this is no motivation
Relevant-ly, what do most of you use for burning CDs / DVDs on the Superdrive?
And, what's with these cryptic error messages? Any way i can make it 'verbose', ie, something like, 'your image could not be created because your original CD is corrupted / your HD is full / you are sitting on the keyboard'?
And while i am here, the next task for me is creating a DVD by piecing together all my home-movie clips. I would like to share it with family in Asia, Region 5. Is this at all possible - creating DVDs for another region? I am in NJ,USA, so my current setup is Region 1. If i change my region on the iMac then i would not be able to play commercial DVDs bought here on it ...
Today, DiskCopy stopped abruptly while creating the master copy with a very cryptic message "Image Volume operation failed with error 999 (internal error)" Tried again a couple of times, then tried with YuBurner, which did not work. (Ran thru it in seconds, but the CD-R ended up with no data, just the label
)So i borrowed a colleague's Roxio Toast 5.1.1; it gives me the option to create an image on disk before writing it, so clicked that. For the next hour (when i left for work), Toast was still creating the image file, and by the progress meter, seemed to have done less than half of it! (For all i know, it might still be going). Is this normal? I was hoping to see Toast zip thru this task, so that i would be motivated to buy it myself, but this is no motivation
Relevant-ly, what do most of you use for burning CDs / DVDs on the Superdrive?
And, what's with these cryptic error messages? Any way i can make it 'verbose', ie, something like, 'your image could not be created because your original CD is corrupted / your HD is full / you are sitting on the keyboard'?
And while i am here, the next task for me is creating a DVD by piecing together all my home-movie clips. I would like to share it with family in Asia, Region 5. Is this at all possible - creating DVDs for another region? I am in NJ,USA, so my current setup is Region 1. If i change my region on the iMac then i would not be able to play commercial DVDs bought here on it ...