how to: copy a CD to another CD which is blank

Anonymous
2012-01-20T16:03:44+00:00

Original Title**: where is the "disk copy" command?**

Using Windows Explorer (in Windows 7 64Pro) I see no familiar "disk copy" command to automatically make a backup copy of a CD or DVD that is currently in my DVD burner.  How can I use Windows Explorer to copy a disk that is in the D: (DVD) drive?

(I have tried various combinations of this question in the Help menu installed with Win 7 w/o any answer that remotely addresses this very simple [and I must assume common] question....similarly, I found no answer at the Windows 7 home page...)

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Anonymous
2012-01-20T16:48:41+00:00

Using Windows Explorer (in Windows 7 64Pro) I see no familiar "disk copy" command to automatically make a backup copy of a CD or DVD that is currently in my DVD burner.  How can I use Windows Explorer to copy a disk that is in the D: (DVD) drive?

(I have tried various combinations of this question in the Help menu installed with Win 7 w/o any answer that remotely addresses this very simple [and I must assume common] question....similarly, I found no answer at the Windows 7 home page...)

Diskcopy is a DOS facility. Since Windows arrived some 25 years ago, you do these things with a graphical user interface rather than with a command.

Open two Windows Explorer frames, then drag the DVD item to wherever you want it on your hard disk. That's all.

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Günter Born 49,461 Reputation points
2012-01-20T17:09:13+00:00

Beside the answer given by Pegasus - as far as I remember, discopy has been removed als context menu command in Windows 7 (because it was only used for floppy discs in previous Windows versions).

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Anonymous
2012-01-20T22:05:21+00:00

Ok...upon further investigation, I suppose the only way to perform a "disc copy" to to drag all the contents of the CD to a folder set up for that purpose on C:, remove the original CD, insert a blank CD, drag all the files back to D: and click: "Burn to Disc"...a bit more cumbersome but workable...and, I did spell disc as disk....so, I need to be more careful with my questions...

Windows 7 does not have a direct "CD Copy" function but some third-party programs do, e.g. ImgBurn (www.imgburn.com).

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-05-14T05:30:09+00:00

    Ric - Thanks for replying.  I'm not trying to copy music.  I'm simply trying to take a CD with a couple of tracks of audio and burn it onto a new disc (in other words to make a duplicate). 

    When I put the first disc in the DVD burner drive, if Windows Media Player comes up at all, it may (or may not) show the tracks (the CD in question has 2 tracks).  If it shows them, then over in the right side of the screen there is a box that says to drag the files you want to copy into that box, but when I try to drag them over, they don't move into the box, so of course I am unable to burn them to a blank CD. 

    It is amazing how long I have been trying to do this - how many responses I have read, none of which work, and how apparently incapable all of the people in this forum and in Google searches of giving an understandable answer to what should be a simple question.  I used to be able to do this in XP, etc. with no problem. 

    If you could actually give me an answer that would work, I would definitely owe you a favor.   Tony in Sun Lakes, AZ

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-05-14T05:34:24+00:00

    Toni - I am having the same problem, running 8.1.  I've got a message out there - if someone can show me how to do this, I will pass it on to you.  Apparently Windows Media Player is supposed to do this, but I have read that WMP is very poorly designed, and it was recommended to buy some other program that would copy a CD.  That's really too bad - I wish Microsoft had some competion - I'd get rid of them in a heartbeat!

    Tony in Sun Lakes, AZ

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