Can a CD be burned without two CD drives?

[BFOJ]

If I only have a CD Writer, no other CD Reader, is there a direct way to copy a CD to CD without copying the data to the hard drive first? I'm using Nero.

 

[dwilko]

Yes you can you have to make an image of the disk on to the Hard drive then burn the image to disk
or you could tell nero to copy cd to cd and it should make an image of the disk that you are copying then it will ask you to put in a blank CD

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[Win98User]

I believe that you set target and destination drives as the same - the software will then prompt you about which cd's to put in the drive - it is time consuming of course.

Forgive me if Nero doesn't do this, I am basing my answer on the fact that other pieces of software I have used have had this option and that Nero is a leading name in this field.

Regards.

 

[wolluf]

What - get your CD writer to read the whole CD into RAM then write it from there? Don't know how big a RAM drive you can have nowadays - or if Nero will read from it.
How much RAM have you got?

But

a. what's wrong with copying to hard drive - its only temporary file
b. CD ROM drives are very cheap.

 

[ceh4702]

Of course if you had a network you might be able to put the CD in oncomputer and copy it to another computer. If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.

 

[ANFPS26]

I use a program called MusiMatch Jukebox to record the songs from CD to a file, then I use NERO to record the file to CD. MusicMatch can do the burning, also, but NERO is faster.
There are other programs you can use such as WinAmp and even
Windows Media Player. My favorite Is MusicMatch. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing....."

 

[dwilko]

Sorry I read the post wrong

You cann't write an image to your RAM even if you could you would need at Least 700Mb of ram free

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[BFOJ]

Nothing wrong with writing to the hard disk first, just curious, wondered what my options were. Also limited diskspace available and too cheap to buy a 2nd CD drive for this older machine. Not a networked PC. Thanks for your opinions.