Copy a CD with OS X Tiger |
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by Oscar Sodani
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| July 8, 2006 |
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Oscar Sodani is a founder of Help2Go and owner of Help2Go Networks, an IT consulting firm in the Washington D.C. area. Oscar holds the CISSP certification as well as industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Novell.
The OS X operating system makes many tasks very easy - unfortunately, making a duplicate of a CD is not one of them. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to make an exact copy of a CD.
- Insert the CD you want to copy
- Open the Finder, open Applications, then Utilities, and start the Disk Utility program
- In Disk Utility, click on the File menu, choose New, then choose Disk Image from Folder
- The Finder will appear - select your CD and click on the Image button
- A new dialog box will appear. In the Where box, choose Desktop. In the Image Format box, choose DVD/CD master
- Click Save
Now a new file will be created on your Desktop, titled the name of your CD with a ".cdr" tacked on the end. It make take a few minutes to completely created the file. This file is a disk image of your CD.
- When it's done, eject your original CD from the CD drive
- Return to the Disk Utility program.
- You should now see the disk image of your CD on the left hand side, typically at the bottom of the list. Select the image, and then click on the Burn button
- Follow the directions and insert a black CD-R disc when prompted.
That's it! You have now successfully made a copy of the CD.
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