Hi,
I'm trying to move some DVD games from my laptop (IBM Thinkpad T42, XP
Pro, SP2, no DVD burner) to cd disks, which will serve as temporary
storage until I get hold of a DVD burner.
This "temporary storage" idea came into my mind when I read the
following Nero FAQs:

"3. I have Nero/Nero Express installed and a CD recorder connected to
my system. Is there any way to create a DVD image on this system to
burn it with a DVD recorder later?

Yes.
From within Nero Burning ROM go to 'File --> Preferences --> Expert
Features'. Go to the bottom of this page and enable the option for
‘Enable Image Recorder for all supported recorder formats'.
From within Nero Express go to 'More --> Configure --> Expert
Features' and enable the same option.
Now, go to the Compilation window and select the DVD image recorder".

Since the DVD files are currently in an ISO format, I and since Nero
doesn't accept ISO format in their DVD imae recorder option, I tried
to open my files using isobuster.
Well, the first part was easy. Isobuster extracted the ISO part
smoothly. Still, when I tried to extract the UDF files, my
non-registered version of isobuster tated that this option is
available exclusively to registered users (Which I'm not). Same
happened with the IFO files.

My question:
Do you know of a free way of extracting UDF and IFO files?
or alternatively
Do I need these file for future burning of a DVD?

Ran

Ran Chermesh ((E-Mail Removed)) in
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> I'm trying to move some DVD games from my laptop (IBM Thinkpad T42, XP
> Pro, SP2, no DVD burner) to cd disks, which will serve as temporary
> storage until I get hold of a DVD burner.
....
> My question:
> Do you know of a free way of extracting UDF and IFO files?
> or alternatively
> Do I need these file for future burning of a DVD?

Well, not really a question for this newsgroup...

My own approach would be to back up the files to DVD. I don't use Nero
Backup for that, because I'm inclined to use WinRAR for everything it can.
Either way, you're likely to obtain one large archive file that gets chopped
into CD-size chunks (basically the same idea as preparing large media files
for upload to binary newsgroups). Then burn these to normal data CDs.

Once you do have a DVD-burner you could copy these chunks from the CDs onto
the DVDs (but I think that that goes for ISO-files as well).

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Chris Laarman

Chris,
Thanks.
What do you mean by using winrar to back up files to DVD?

Ran

Chris,
Thanks.
What do you mean by using winrar to back up files to DVD?

Ran

(E-Mail Removed) ((E-Mail Removed)) in
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> What do you mean by using winrar to back up files to DVD?

Well, not the burning process.

The normal way of archiveing files would be to store them all in one large
file, with some degree of compression (trading off between file size and
processor time).

The RAR file format allows chopping up the large file at creation time into
blocks of selectable size. Say the maximum size that fits onto a CD.

Then use proper burning software (like Nero Express) to burn each of these
files onto a separate CD.

--
Chris Laarman