Sunday, September 20, 2009

Use Nero to make an ISO image

We have a DVD that we are creating and want to make an ISO image of it that can be downloaded over the internet. However, Nero Essentials doesn't make it very clear how to do it (I suppose to limit piracy). However a thread at this forum <http://forum.my.nero.com/index.php?showtopic=658> gave instructions on how to do it which I've modified below to cover Nero 7 Essentials (this version has a different interface than the one in the forum post) :

1. Open Nero Express Essentials
2. Click the arrow button on the far left of the Nero window to expose the Advanced panel (I had never noticed this arrow button before)
3. Place your DVD in the DVD player
4. Select "Copy Audio CD Tracks"
5. It will list the DVD track as a single track with a start, length, mode listing and the "Total" field will indicate something like: "1 Track, 343:25:23(3019 MB)"
6. Change the Output file format to "ISO image file (*.iso)
7. Set the name and path where you want the .iso to save
8. Click "Go"

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