I would like a burner emulator, that would alow me to use(for example) Discjugglers network burner feature to "burn" to a image on the harddrive.

Im not totaly sure i will actually use Discjuggler i might add, i might end up using a VB burnerscript insted. Its not going to produce the worlds best burning results, but it should be more then good enough to dump images to a harddrive, incase the burner is actually offline, or allready occupied.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Any ideas?
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are you just asking how to save as an ISO file on your hard drive?

most burning/transcoding programs will give this this option on the last screen.

both dvd shrink and clonedvd2 allow this (and will even compress it to the correct size for a single layer disc for you if you want it to)

dvd decrypter in "ISO>READ" mode will save the disc image as an ISO to your hard drive but won't compress it.

i'm sure there are dozens of other programs that will do the same thing.

most of the stuff in the nero suite (vision express, recode, etc) will alow "burning" to an image as well.

hope that helps!

i use nero to rip images to a network mounted drive for this purpose

erm... yeah download the virtual clonedrive off of slysofts website www.slysoft.com and you can mount images.. i think thats what your looking for

I think you all missunderstand. I need a BURNER to be emulated. Not a reader, and not a software that allows me to dump images to disc.

Basicly, i need a CD/DvD emulator with burning emulation, making the drive act as a burner to a burning software, but when the burningsoftware dosent look, it simply dumps the data to a disc. Nero had a "image nurner" in the select burner dialog, wich would do what i want, if it wasent for the simple fact that Nero dosent do network-sharing burners.

For cd emulation purposes ther are loads of options, where the three most comon are Alcohol120%, Daemon tools, and ColoneDrive. None of wich supports what i need, infact, daemon tools clearly states that they are NOT going to include sutch support at all, for reasons unknown to me.

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AAAAA yes I understand what you are after MR B you want a Burner emulator ! in that case all you need is to Flash your CD emulator with new firmware so it will be a Burner emulator. I Just Flashed my Pioneer 110D with new Firmware and now I can burn DVD-Ram.

i'm confused.

all the nero image burner does is save to an image on the hard drive...isn't that what you're asking?

if not, can someone explain the difference to me for my own knowledge?

I need the same / similar function for a different burning software, either for Discjuggler, or for a generic VB burning script. This since i intend to have it to burn from files other users send over the internal network. As the server has only 2 burners, and someone has to replace the media, it has to be able to dump images to drive from the files sent, so i can manualy burn them at a later time.

So, basicly, what i need is a generic simulation of a burner, in the same way as Daemontools, virtual clonedrive, or alcohol 120% virtual drives, only with emulated burning aswell as reading. (well, i wouldent really need reading, only burning) I havent been able to find anything like this, so im thinking i might have to find a different solution. If im going to use a VB script for the burning, i should be able to make a vbscript for the server, use it as a webpage, and have it recive the files localy to a file area, make the image, and if a free burner is available, feed it to that one. Harder to do, and less flexible, but oh well.

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I know exactly what you need, Mr. B. I've searched all over the web and most people seem to missunderstand the request. I have only found one solution, which worked but not completely; I'll explain shortly. Check this out: http://www.ztekware.com/product.htm. Basically, what you and I are looking for is a piece of software that adds a virtual drive to Windows that ANY program can use for reading AND writing discs. There are pleanty of programs that will burn images and plenty that will mount them, but almost none that will show up as a burner in other programs (e.g. useful on systems without an actual burner, like a laptop, if you want to copy the disc image to a computer that does have one). I need to create some recovery discs for my laptop using a small program that came with it. This program is very simple and creates many CDs, one after the other, and you cannot interupt it, else you have to start all over; which is where I am. The problem I found with the above emulator is that the laptop software automatically verifies the burn (you don't have a choice) and fails when it tries to read this virtual burner, although the write went just fine. So I never get past disc 1.

Coathi, how did you do this:

And there we go, 100% perfect solution for me. Im sorry to hear you had a failiture with your backup software tho.

Huge thanks to you, for the link. Im going to test it the next 15 days to see if it fills my need, but for as far as i can tell right away, im going to by this.
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