Game CDs onto DVD

jcat22jcat22
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Is it possible to burn the 6 cds for Baldur's Gate I on to one DVD to avoid all the swapping during gameplay? I have also heard it possible to load the discs onto the hard drive but there was a special technique to that. Any help out there?

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    jante99jante99 Posts: 539member
    To load the disk on the harddive you would need to create disk images of them with roxio toast. The computer would then think that all the cd's were loaded. This would be the simplest solution. Making it into one DVD would be more difficult because you would have to create a disk image of all six disk images.
  • Reply 2 of 7
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    although now that you mention it, that should be possible to burn all six disc images onto one DVD so they look like they're all mounted.



    give it a shot and let us know if it works. sounds like a good idea!
  • Reply 3 of 7
    jcat22jcat22 Posts: 17member
    [quote]Originally posted by alcimedes:

    <strong>although now that you mention it, that should be possible to burn all six disc images onto one DVD so they look like they're all mounted.



    give it a shot and let us know if it works. sounds like a good idea!</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I will let you know. Thanks for the help.
  • Reply 4 of 7
    jcat22jcat22 Posts: 17member
    Without Roxio Toast, I tried with Disk Copy to create a disk image onto the hard drive first. i was able to create the first CD fine but now it is having a problem reading some files from disk 2. The disk may be damaged. Now what?
  • Reply 5 of 7
    pyr3pyr3 Posts: 946member
    Try getting someone on a windows box to try CloneCD or Nero on it. PCs are better at circumventing any copy protection. ( not PCs, but PC software )
  • Reply 6 of 7
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    Create Disk Images with Disk Copy and then copy them onto the DVD and burn

    It might be slow because DVD reading is not up to the 48x + speed of CD reading <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
  • Reply 7 of 7
    pyr3pyr3 Posts: 946member
    [quote]Create Disk Images with Disk Copy and then copy them onto the DVD and burn

    It might be slow because DVD reading is not up to the 48x + speed of CD reading [Chilling] <hr></blockquote>



    You have no idea what you are talking about. He said that tried that but there was a read failure. IMO that means that there may be some copy protection on the CD. DVD read speeds have nothing to do with this, and I'm sure that DVD speeds are fast enough to the point where it's faster than switching CDs back and forth, no?
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