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How to rip a vintage CD-Rom disk to an ISO file in Win10 ??

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I would have thought this was something baked in to Win10.
WOW !!
Not even close !
Googling around found nothing free to rip a simple old motherboard driver CD to an ISO file !!
This is simple for audio CD's
But data CD's, CD-Rom's seem to be much more difficult. (at least for free)
Please help with suggestions or link?
thanks !
 
WinImage, UltraISO, etc. It's not that hard to find a free tool, really. I still use WinImage 8.50 from 2009. But newer version will do as well.
 
Thanks, but this should be not rocket science.
some simple app should be able to do this for free?
No win 10 ISO BS
 
Why did I even mention WinImage twice if you ignore it anyway? Small tool, fits even on a floppy disk, can be run portable, and has the only purpose to read, write (floppy), browse and create floppy/hdd/cd images.

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Timo W. said:
Why did I even mention WinImage twice if you ignore it anyway? Small tool, fits even on a floppy disk, can be run portable, and has the only purpose to read, write (floppy), browse and create floppy/hdd/cd images.
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Perhaps like me he is honest, wanted something permanent and noted its shareware

"The price of WinImage standard is US$ 30.00 (about 30 Euro)."

where as, as Larry noted

CDBurnerXP = FREE Software

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WinImage can't handle multi-track CDs. If you have a game with audio tracks, WinImage will only capture the data portion, and not even tell you there are other tracks.

ImgBurn is much more robust, although it can sometimes choke on copy protection or file system errors. In those cases, I use Alcohol 120%.
 
Plasma said:
WinImage can't handle multi-track CDs. If you have a game with audio tracks, WinImage will only capture the data portion, and not even tell you there are other tracks.

ImgBurn is much more robust, although it can sometimes choke on copy protection or file system errors. In those cases, I use Alcohol 120%.
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It's not about robustness, any software able to create only ISO images will fail on such discs as ISO cannot contain audio tracks.
But true, ImgBurb can create bin/cue images and will warn about other tracks. I tend to stay away from proprietary formats like Alcohols's though, except when there is no alternative for example copy-protected discs.
 
konc said:
It's not about robustness, any software able to create only ISO images will fail on such discs as ISO cannot contain audio tracks.
But true, ImgBurb can create bin/cue images and will warn about other tracks. I tend to stay away from proprietary formats like Alcohols's though, except when there is no alternative for example copy-protected discs.
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Yes it is. Any program that can only create standard ISOs is not robust. Half of the problem is that WinImage does not "fail", it will just create an image of the data on track 0. If you are unaware the disc has multiple tracks, you will think you have a complete image, when you do not.
 
Thanks everyone for as robust discussion.
I have used winimg for writing .img files for DOS machines. It was hard to use, requiring a PHD in floppy disks to set all the switches right to get a bootable file written. Plus it is has a timer limit on usage.
That aside. I just find it odd that Win10 can't rip an ISO natively.
But I'm good I can make ISO's now that appear to be working.
again thanks
 
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