Have you guys tried burning a CD image to a DVD? No, I am not talking about converting a VideoCD format to a DVDVideo format. I know a lot of people are interested in that. If you are going to convert the mpeg files from the VideoCD to a MPEG4 format (that’s for DVD Video), you will need a video converter and this method is different from what I am about to introduce to you.

Although I know that it is not useful to the majority of the people out there, but at times you may find it useful. For example, just last week, one of my friend’s notebook had a faulty DVDRW drive and his system OS was corrupted. It was able to read DVDs but not CDs. So I had no choice but to create an image from the WinXP CD and then burn the image to DVD in order to reinstall his WinXP. To install WinXP, you will need to make it bootable. If you just copy the contents from the WinXP CD and then burn the data to the DVD, you won’t be able to boot from that DVD anymore. So, data copy is out. The only choose (less replacing the drive) is to make a WinXP Bootable in DVD. Ha, you will be surprised that one day you are looking for this exact solution!

The first thing you need is something to image the CD into an iso file. I would recommend you LC ISO Creator. It’s free and extremely user friendly, plus it takes up a few kilobytes of hdd space, which means it takes all but a few seconds to download using your high speed broadband Internet connection. You just need to run the program and choose which drive to image and the image will be saved for you. I never seen anything easier. The next software you need is Deepburner to burn your image. Other mainstream CD/DVD burning software like Nero will not allow you burn a CD image to a DVD. But Deepbuner allows you to do that without any problems. And for my case, after burning, the DVD boots fine and installs without any problems as well. Do not worry, Deepburner has a free version which comes with plenty of features for everyday use. They have a Pro version with some additional features and if you think that they might be useful, then by all means, purchase the software. It is low on resources unlike what I am currently using - Nero. Thank god for alternative software.

So next time if you need to burn an CD image to DVD, try this method. It works perfectly for me.