It seems to be slightly crippled in that there is a size limitaion until you pay $29.95.

There is also mention of an immenant 'Pro' version that will do all the formats you could imagine !

It seems a little less than straightforwar in operation. You need to have the 'Configuration running, Unmount whatever may be there, then click 'Create' and the type of media before doing the 'burn' from one's application. Then it seems you need to Unmount/Create again to be ready for the next 'burn'.

geoff

Thanks Geoff, I hadn't created the disc first. Apparently creating does an automatic mount as well. Another confusing thing is that it says it is going to create a .VDD file even though "convert to ISO" is ticked. However, at the end of the day an .ISO appears in your documents folder. Can you change the folder?

Dunno - buit plan to do some chatting on their forums to get these vaguaries sorted ;-)

geoff

This is probably more of a philosophical question than a technical one, but what is the difference between a DVD+RW .iso and a DVD-RW .iso? I can make a .iso from a + disc and then burn it to a - disc or vice versa. The result is an identical copy of the contents. Why would the physical media type matter to the .iso process? As far as the content of the .iso is concerned, DVD+RW = DVD-RW = DVD+R = DVD-R.

I don't know the precise answer to your question but the image on a disc has lots of overheads such as error correction, redundancy, directory formats etc. that are invisible when you look at the contents with say Windows Explorer. It sounds like a recipe for disaster to burn a +RW image to a -RW disc, assuming that the software would let you do it. (And also if you burnt a +RW image to a +R disc.) If we could do it we would not need to worry about choosing +R versus -R blanks.

Virtual CloneDrive has been around for some time and seems to work well for most people. It works on any operating system.

John

I tried it but I couldn't write to it. (My application didn't see it as a drive.) Is there some trick to setting it up?

Nero lets me burn any DVD .iso to any DVD blank. I download various .iso files for Linux installs and nowhere is it specified what type of media it's supposed to be. I successfully burn them to whatever's lying around handy on the desk and they always work. I haven't paid much attention, but i'm quite sure by now that i've burned the same .iso to at least +R, -R, and +RW and there were no issues at all.

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Um, we are try to CREATE the iso image by burning to a virtual drive, not mount and play an existing iso image !

geoff

I'm with John. Virtual Clonedrive is all you will ever need. Especially since they give you the WHOLE program for free.

Um did I get something wrong, or can Virtual Clone actual GENERATE ISO images as a virtual DVD writing device. Doesn't seem to suggest that in the feature set I read - just for mounting and playing existing ISO images as if they were a DVD (etc).

geoff

My sentiments too. I couldn't write to it.