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Make Hard Drive-to-Disc Copies
Copying from the hard drive is the best way to make copies. Overall, there are four benefits of
copying from the hard drive.
Performance.
Copying from the hard drive will enable the writer dives to boost the copying
performance to its limit.
Stability
. Copying from hard drive will stabilize the duplication process compared to disc-to-
disc duplication.
Durability
– The hard drive is a more durable storage device than recordable discs. The
recording surface of a recordable disc is exposed and can easily be scratched on its surface,
while hard drives are covered with metal and mounted inside the system protecting it from
incidental damage.
Convenience
– With your master disc(s) stored inside the hard drive, you can have access
to each one easily. There is no need to carry your master discs every time you want to make
a copy; they are all stored inside the system.
Throughout this manual, the term partition(s) is also used to refer to image files in
the hard drive.
A partition will be created whenever you begin to load the master disc content into the hard drive.
The size of the created partition will be the same as the size of your master disc rounded up to
the next Gigabyte. The number of partitions the hard drive can hold is determined by the
capacity of your hard drive and the size of every partition you created.
There are many factors that could contribute to the capacity difference between the advertised
capacity and the actual capacity:
1. Hard Drive Manufactures use a conversion rate of 1GB = 1 Billion Bytes or 1000^3
Bytes. However, most Operating Systems, including our Duplication System use a
standard conversion rate of 1GB = 1.074 Billion Bytes or 1024^3 Bytes. Therefore, for an
advertised 160GB Hard Drive (160 Billion Bytes), the true capacity base on our system’s
standard is actually 149GB.
2. In addition, we round off all fractions of a GB to the lower whole number. That means for
a hard drive that has a 149.5GB system capacity, we only recognize and utilize 149GB.
The following steps will show you how to load your master disc into the installed hard drive as
an image and copy the stored image onto blank discs.
Section 1: Loading Master Disc content into the Hard Drive as a partition/image.
When you turn on your system, after it has booted up, you should see the following
signifying your system is ready.
Step 1:
Use the up or down arrow button to navigate to the Hard Drive Setup menu.
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9.Hard Drive Setup
