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GT40FIED · 04-01-2004, 07:28 PM

Ok...so can anyone tell me what the hell an image drive is? It's part of the Nero package but I haven't a clue what it is so I'm a bit afraid of enabling it...especially after what I did to my comp yesterday.

ebpda9 · 04-01-2004, 08:11 PM

oh well it's not a dumb question, it's a very dumb one

just fucking with you

anyway with nero you can create inmages off the cd and save them to your hard drive. Image drive is a program that will load the cd image and act as a regular cd-rom drive

94_AcCoRd_EX · 04-01-2004, 09:42 PM

^^^ Stefan nailed it. It copies the CD and then "pretends" that it has its own drive letter. Can work well for programs that need the CD to run.

04-01-2004, 09:56 PM

And an extension of their answers, for completeness, an image is a full copy/replication of the data in question.....so a CD image is just a full copy of the CD onto a drive.

You may at some point hear the term of "installing from an image" which basically means the image is actually an entire copy of the hard drive's contents necessary for the install.....used mostly in corporate settings.

b

04-01-2004, 07:28 PM	#1
GT40FIED Best...mod...ever Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: At the end of the longest line Age: 42 Posts: 7,451	Another most likely dumbass question Ok...so can anyone tell me what the hell an image drive is? It's part of the Nero package but I haven't a clue what it is so I'm a bit afraid of enabling it...especially after what I did to my comp yesterday. __________________ 1984 1/2 Mustang GT350 #842, Faster than you...nuff said Anna Fan Club President/Dictator Someday, in the event that mankind actually figures out what it is that this world actually revoles around, thousands of people are going to be shocked and perplexed that it was not them. Sometimes this includes me. "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell Welcome to the new Amerika

04-01-2004, 08:11 PM	#2
ebpda9 Repost Wagon Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: over here Age: 43 Posts: 17,266	oh well it's not a dumb question, it's a very dumb one just fucking with you anyway with nero you can create inmages off the cd and save them to your hard drive. Image drive is a program that will load the cd image and act as a regular cd-rom drive __________________

04-01-2004, 09:42 PM	#3
94_AcCoRd_EX Insomniac Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: OR Age: 43 Posts: 11,142	^^^ Stefan nailed it. It copies the CD and then "pretends" that it has its own drive letter. Can work well for programs that need the CD to run. __________________ 1994 Accord EX coupe --Need hosting for your pics on HST? PM me...--

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04-01-2004, 09:56 PM	#4
spoogenet Posts: n/a	And an extension of their answers, for completeness, an image is a full copy/replication of the data in question.....so a CD image is just a full copy of the CD onto a drive. You may at some point hear the term of "installing from an image" which basically means the image is actually an entire copy of the hard drive's contents necessary for the install.....used mostly in corporate settings. b