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    ? re recovery disc transfer from cds to dvd

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by heygibb, Dec 16, 2006.

  1. heygibb

    heygibb Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello, noob here.
    I have looked through many posts for this info, with no luck. Maybe someone can tell me if I am wasting my time.
    I just bought a Travelmate 2480, which has a CD burner but only a DVD read drive. I burned my original recovery set on to 5 CDs. Since my unit will read a DVD, I thought I would transfer the contents of the CDs to one DVD on another pc I have that has a DVD/RW. I used the disk 1 title on it. (acerbackup01, I believe).
    I initiated a recovery and the DVD was not acknowledged.
    Does anyone know if what I want to do is possible?
    Thanks for reading.
    Tim
     
    heygibb, Dec 16, 2006
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  2. Gautam

    Gautam election 2008 NBR Reviewer

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    There is a Linux command line method of doing it for free, but I assume you are running Windows.

    There are programs for Windows - such as MagicISO that do the task you want to accomplish. The way its done is converting CDs to ISOs, then combining the ISOs into one large DVD iso.
     
    Gautam, Dec 16, 2006
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  3. heygibb

    heygibb Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the reply. I am running XP Home, sp2.
    I understand where you're coming from. It never crossed my mind to convert to ISO format. I was thinking a data disk is a data disk, whether on a CD or DVD.
    I don't want to buy any software to do it though. I'll keep the CDs, I reckon.
     
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  4. Arla

    Arla Notebook Deity

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    Personally, I'm not sure I'd recommend it, given that they are ghost images it wouldn't surprise me if combining them into one large image would do something very weird.

    Personally, I'd backup the CD's (I backed up my DVD to an .ISO image) but just use the CD's if you want to restore, sure it's slightly more work but...
     
    Arla, Dec 18, 2006
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