gHacks technology news » imgburn http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Grab A Copy Of Nero 9 Free Edition http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/31/grab-a-copy-of-nero-9-free-edition/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/31/grab-a-copy-of-nero-9-free-edition/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:57:17 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14918 microsoft windowsThe DVD burning software Nero evolved from a lighting fast application to burn CDs and DVDs to a bloated monstrosity in the last ten years. The latest versions come with so many modules and additional applications that most users hardly use. Yes, some may appreciate that Nero 9 can convert media files, let users watch multimedia files in the application or create music mixes but most users likely prefer otherwise.

The makers of Nero are now offering a stripped down version of Nero 9 for free on their website. Well, not totally free but if you give up an email address you can download and use the Nero 9 free edition. Nero 9 Free is only offering data disk burning and disk copying functionality. It still has a size of more than 55 Megabytes.

Nero 9 Free can be downloaded from the Nero website, or if that is preferred, from third party download portals like Softpedia where the download is also hosted. The benefit of downloading Nero 9 Free from these download portals is that no email address needs to be supplied before downloading the DVD burning software.

Nero 9 Free turns out to be Nero 9 Essentials which is a version of Nero that gets only distributed with hardware purchases. It should also be noted that the program will suggest to install the Ask Toolbar during installation. Make sure to uncheck the box if you do not want to install it.

Users who prefer lightweight might want to try out alternatives such as ImgBurn, Ashampoo Burning Studio Free or the recommendations in our best free burning software thread. Thanks Dante for the tip.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/31/grab-a-copy-of-nero-9-free-edition/feed/ 13 Guides For DVD Burning Software ImgBurn http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/29/guides-for-dvd-burning-software-imgburn/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/29/guides-for-dvd-burning-software-imgburn/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:12:44 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14880 microsoft windowsThe developers of ImgBurn have just released version 2.5 of their lightweight DVD burning software which added some interesting features to the already excellent software program. The biggest quirks that new users can have with the DVD burning software is the user interface that makes it sometimes hard to understand how to perform a certain operation in the burning software. It can be quite confusing finding out how to burn a video_ts folder, disk images or bootable operating system disks even with the wizard displayed in the beginning that aids the user in some of the possible operations.

One great way of finding out how to perform a special operation in ImgBurn is to take a look at the guides that have been created by the developers. These guides explain how to burn a certain type of disk. They include guides on how to burn bootable Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating system disks, audio CDs, DVD video, image files such as ISO or IMG and double-layer or Bu-Ray disks.

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Even users with past experience with other DVD burning software might need to take a look at the guides to ensure they are performing the right steps to burn the disk the right way. All ImgBurn guides can be found on the ImgBurn website.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/29/guides-for-dvd-burning-software-imgburn/feed/ 1 DVD Burning Software Imgburn Updated http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/28/dvd-burning-software-imgburn-updated/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/28/dvd-burning-software-imgburn-updated/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:00:02 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14840 microsoft windowsI started using Nero Burning Rom back in the days of the – super expensive – CD burners. It was an excellent CD burning software program but deteriorated into a resource hungry collection of applications and background processes. That’s when I decided to skip Nero and uninstall it from the computer system. I did find ImgBurn after evaluating quite a few DVD burning software programs and kept the program ever since. ImgBurn is everything that Nero once was probably with the exception that the user interface can confuse beginners a lot. The excellent tutorials and howtos on the other hand explain how to perform a certain DVD or CD burning operation in the computer program.

ImgBurn was recently updated to version 2.5 and the developer has published a huge list of changes, fixes and additions to that version. The program stays the same at its core which means it is still the lightweight DVD burning software that can be installed or used as a (unofficial) portable version instead.

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Below are some of the more important changes introduced in this version of ImgBurn:

  • An ‘Advanced’ input mode to build mode where you have total control over the layout of the disc and can add new folders, change names etc. (i.e. you’re no longer limited to burning an existing folder structure on your hard disc as-is)
  • ImgBurn now adds itself to the context menu’s ‘Open With’ submenu for files it’s associated with.
  • Support for burning CCD files.
  • Support for building images using the ‘MODE2/FORM1/2352′ data type. (previously it only supported ‘MODE1/2048′)
  • A check to ensure all the DVD Video files in a sequence are present. (i.e. it’ll prompt if VTS_XX_1.VOB and VTS_XX_3.VOB are present but VTS_XX_2.VOB isn’t)
  • Detection of attempts to build Vista style OS installation discs (via the ’sources\install.wim’ file) and the relevant prompting for conflicting settings, failing to make it bootable etc (same as an ‘I386′ install disc).

The new version of the DVD burning software can be downloaded directly from the developer’s website. It has a size of only 2 Megabytes, comes with many language translation files (e.g. German, Chinese, Russian, French and Spanish) and is compatible with all Microsoft operating systems from Windows 95 to Windows 7.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/28/dvd-burning-software-imgburn-updated/feed/ 6 How To Burn Disk Images http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/12/how-to-burn-disk-images/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/12/how-to-burn-disk-images/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:17:30 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=9840 It is surprising that many users who have downloaded the Windows 7 Beta release are having difficulties burning it on DVD. This article is supposed to act as a guideline for all of your disk burning activities.

To burn a disk image a software is needed that is capable of doing so. One of the best free disk burning applications is ImgBurn. ImgBurn is fast, lightweight and supports many of the more popular disk image formats including ISO, BIN and IMG among others. It is also compatible with all 32-bit and 64-bit editions of all Windows operating systems since the release of (and including) Windows 95.

It furthermore is capable of burning disk images to CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD DVD. In other words: ImgBurn should cover the needs of 99.9% of all users.

One of the useful features of ImgBurn is its context menu integration. A option to burn the disk image will automatically appear if a user right-clicks a supported disk image file.

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The selected disk image will be loaded directly into the disk burning software program with the option to burn it immediately if a blank disk has been inserted into the disk writing drive.

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All that is left to do is to click on the icon in the lower left of the window that is opening automatically. This will start the disk burning process. Users can optionally change the write speed settings and amount of copies in the left side or activate test mode or verification. That’s all there is to it to burn a disk image.

We had an ask the readers article just a short while ago about the best free burning software that might be of interest as well.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/12/how-to-burn-disk-images/feed/ 9 Burn Image Files with ImgBurn http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/29/burn-image-files-with-imgburn/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/29/burn-image-files-with-imgburn/#comments Tue, 29 May 2007 15:55:52 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/29/burn-image-files-with-imgburn/ If you are looking for a versatile CD and DVD burning software that can be freely downloaded and that is supporting most known image formats you should take a closer look at ImgBurn. The program can either read a disc to an image file, build an image from files and folders or burn an image file from your hard drive to a new blank media.

ImgBurn supports, among others, the image formats iso, bin, nrg, mds and img which should be enough to burn most images that are out there. More exotic formats are also supported as well as all operating systems from Microsoft from Windows 95 to Windows Vista.

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I personally like ImgBurn because of it’s small size (only 1.5 megabytes), the ease of use and the support for all of the mentioned formats. Advanced users will appreciate all the options such as booktypes and bitsettings that ImgBurn offers.

It also offers the ability to queue images which is a feature that is missing in many popular CD and DVD burning programs such as Nero.

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