Making a backup copy of an audio CD
On computer models equipped with a CD recording device, you can use the
Backing Up Audio CDs
utility to make a backup
copy of an audio CD.
On computer models that have both a read-only optical drive and an optical writing drive, you can make a copy with one
click.
On computer models with only one optical drive, you must swap the original CD for a blank CD-R disc when requested to do
so in the middle of the copying process.
1.
Quit
SonicStage
, if the application is open.
2.
Click
Start
, click
All Programs
, point to
SonicStage
, and click
Backing up Audio CDs
.
The
Backing Up Audio CDs
utility starts.
3.
Insert the CD you want to make a backup of into your CD drive.
Insert the CD into the optical drive you use to read CDs. Depending upon your computer model, this may be a
CD-ROM drive, CD-RW drive, a DVD-ROM drive, a DVD-RW drive, or a Combo Drive.
On computer models that have both a read-only optical drive (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM) and an optical writing drive
(CD-RW or DVD-RW), put the CD into the read-only optical drive.
4.
On computer models that have both a read-only optical drive (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM) and an optical writing drive
(CD-RW or DVD-RW), insert a blank CD-R disc into the optical writing drive.
5.
Make sure your CD drive is selected in the
Retrieve from:
drive list.
6.
On computer models that have both a read-only optical drive (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM) and an optical writing drive
(CD-RW or DVD-RW), make sure your optical writing drive is selected in the
Write to:
drive list.
7.
Click
Start
.
The audio data is read from your audio CD.
On computer models that have both a read-only optical drive (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM) and an optical writing drive
(CD-RW or DVD-RW), the data is immediately written to the blank CD-R disc. The
Copy Successful
message
appears.
The backup copy is finished
.
On computer models that have only a single optical drive (CD-RW, DVD-RW, or Combo Drive), the
Reading
completed
message appears after the data is read from the original CD.
8.
If a
Reading complete
message appears, remove the original source CD from the optical writing drive and insert
a blank CD-R disc.
9.
Click
OK
.
The audio data is written to the blank CD-R disc.
The
Copy Successful
message appears.
The backup copy is complete.
To view the SonicStage Help
1.
Click
Start
on the Windows taskbar, and click
All Programs
.
2.
Point to
SonicStage
, and click
SonicStage Help
.
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