How to burn an image to disk

How do I burn an image to disk? This question is often asked by users who have not yet had to deal with the recording of images. Our review will allow readers to obtain the necessary theoretical minimum, which can be immediately applied successfully in practice. Your attention is also a small digest of programs that work with images. So we will decide the question "WHAT" to write the image to disk. Interesting? Then go ahead!

What is an "image", why it is needed and why, how to write an image to disk, how to work with it ... All these questions indicate the continuing interest and stable popularity of images in the lives of users, gamers and other computer brethren.

In fact, the "image" is an exact digital copy of the disc being copied. With all the features and nuances. Literally, "one-to-one." In this form, information can be copied, sent over the Internet, written to disk. Using a special software image can be mounted on a virtual drive and work with it, as with a conventional CD / DVD drive.

Image files are simply irreplaceable for copying, storing and transferring valuable information, considering that conventional CDs can lose their condition due to external factors (scratches, cracks, scrapes, other mechanical damage).

The option of storing information in the form of an image is especially often used when the digital content maker does not really want to be copied.
Image files are saved in certain formats. The most common formats are: .iso / .nrg / .mdf / .img / .dmg / .bin. Accordingly, special programs are needed to work with these file types. Let's consider some bright representatives of software that works with images and, among other things, knows "how to burn an image to disk".

1. DVD ImgBurn is a free program. Its specialization is the creation and recording of images. Of the pleasures (except for "free") I want to mention Russian, a simple and intuitive interface, support for a decent number of image formats. Of the supported formats, there are all necessary. To burn an image to disk in this program, you need to click "Burn image to disk", specify the path to the image, insert a blank "disc" into the drive and click on the picture with the image of "burning". You can download the program from the developer's site, there is also a file with which the program becomes "Russian-speaking".

2. Alcohol 120% - paid software with a very decent functionality. The list of supported image formats is impressive. Of all the functionality of the program, we are now interested in the moment associated with the recording of the image. How to work with it:

• After installation and registration procedure, open the program;
• In the main window we find the inscription "Burn CD / DVD from images";
• Click on this inscription and go to the recording menu. Here you need to specify the path to the image. Select the desired file and click "Open";
• After reading the information about the file, click "Next";
• In the disk recording settings window, we change only what is exactly sure;
• Press "START" and after a few minutes we get the "finished product".

3. NERO: Nero Express is one of the most widely used programs for burning discs. It successfully works with images in the formats * .nrg; * .iso; * .cue; *. Img. To record an image, open the program window, on the left select "Image, Project, Copy." Then on the right side - select "Image of the disk" and click on it. Then we find the image that needs to be written, and open it. Before you burn an image to disk, it remains only to select the type of media on which the project will be recorded. We press the magic button "Record" and after a few minutes we get either an exact copy of the disk or a boot disk (Windows, LiveCD).

To the list listed above, you can add more than a dozen people. Now you have a choice: what program to burn the image to disk you already know. You even know "HOW" to do this. Everything else will give practice, practice, and only practice.