Sorry if my question is a bit lame. Does Alcohol 120% allow users to burn a CD by picking files directly on his hard disk drive ? I only see "Burn Image", and when I click "Make Image" I can't make it from my hard disk -- only from CD drives!! Is there a CD _burning_ (= which can burn CDs directly from HDD) program better than Nero ? It eats lots of resources!!

Thanx

you can create image of the cd from cd-drives and the image is in ur hard disk . you can use it without actually needing to insert the cd physically since the image is in hard disk . you can also burn ( write ) the same image to another blank disc .

mmh, I think my question was misunderstood. I asked if Alcohol 120% allowed me to burn files which had been picked up from my hard disk (like Nero). It seems not, as I cannot write my HDD's files directly: I have to put them into an image that will be burnt after.

Does DiscJuggler allow to burn files directly and is it better than Nero ?

- Tyreksionibus

Alcohol is a backup program. It offers to write cd's and cd images.

DiscJuggler can write cd's just like nero can (and sometimes even better ,faster and more advanced). It's my personal opinion that Padus DiscJuggler is for the experienced user. It offers enormous possibilities for writing , but can be a little hard to configure.

Nero doesn't seem too rescource intesive to me. Is DMA (Direct Memory Access) enabled on your burner? If it isn't then that is what is hogging your computer's rescources.

There is a program... I think it is UltraISO, which can create ISO files from your HD.
EG:
I have 10 .mpg movies I want on a CD. I drag my mouse over the files so that all 10 are highlighted. Then I right-click and there should be a UltraISO menu that can convert all those into an ISO.

From Alcohol 120% you can go to 'Image Burning Wizard', select the ISO that was just created, and burn it. All the 10 .mpg files are now on your CD

You're right: my PC is very slow. I dunno exactly what is slowing it down, but after browsing a few web pages with much graphic effects it starts stuttering and so does Nero. This is extremely annoying 'cos it forces me to reduce the writing speed; I have a 52x CD burner but always use it at 16x because if I set max writing speed I see Nero freeze and the buffers empty themselves, so writing fails. If I enable ExacLink Nero can continue burning and wait for the buffers to refill, but it takes more time for them to do it than for the CD to be written at 16x without any buffer emptying. I really h8 it so I'm searching a very graphically-simple program like CloneCD for burning
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When I saw Alcohol 120% wasn't able to write files directly I thought I could do that in that way (I knew MagicISO instead of UltraISO), but it would have been too long I also thought I could drag'n'drop files from the directories to the virtual drive (created by Alcohol), let the software create the image and then burn it, but the virtual drive is read-only!

Thanks anyway.

- Tyreksionibus