User manual FARSTONE VIRTUALDRIVE PRO 10

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Legal Department 6 Morgan, Suite 160 Irvine, CA 92618 4 Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 41.1 What is VirtualDrive® Pro? 1.2 Features and Benefits 8 8 8 Chapter 2 Installation 2.1 System Requirements 2.2 Installing VirtualDrive® Pro 2.3 Uninstalling VirtualDrive® Pro 11 11 11 11 Chapter 3 Getting Started with VirtualDrive® Pro 3.1 Starting VirtualDrive® Pro 3.2 VirtualDrive® Pro Start Menu 14 14 15 Chapter 4 Backing up Data to Discs 4.1 Easy Backup 4.1.1 Searching for Files to Back up 18 18 18 Search Files Using the Easy Backup Wizard Searching for Files Using Windows Explorer Search 4.1.2 Backing up Files 4.1.3 Customizing Search Types 4.2 Cloning Discs 4.3 Backing Up Image Files 4.4 Restore Burning an Image 4.5 Burning Data CDs & DVDs 4.5.1 Creating a Project 4.5.2 Burning a Project to Disc 4.6 Burning Multiple Discs 4.6.1 Burning Data on Multiple Discs 4.6.2 Retrieving Data from Multiple Discs 4.6.3 Using Multiple Disc Sets in a Virtual Drive 4.7 Burning Settings 4.7.1 Disabling the CD/DVD Drive Auto-run Feature 4.7.2 How to Choose Burning Settings 20 20 20 21 21 23 24 25 26 32 33 33 33 35 35 35 36 Chapter 5 Multimedia Creation 5.1 Creating an Audio CD 5.2 Creating an MP3 CD 5.3 Creating a Movie/Video 5.4 Creating a Slideshow 39 39 39 39 42 Chapter 6 Working with VirtualDrive® 6.1 How to Make an Image 6.1.1 Making an Image from a Project 6.1.2 Making an Image from an Existing Disc 6.2 Working around in VCD Manger 6.2.1 Adding Images to Run on Your Virtual Drives 6.2.3 Using Cabinets to Organize Images 6.2.4 Creating a VCD Shortcut 6.2.5 Searching Images 6.2.6 Extracting Files from an Image 6.2.7 Adding Additional Virtual Drives 6.2.8 Changing the Auto-run Function of Disc Drives 6.2.9 VCD Manager Settings 6.4 Converting between ISO 9660 Images and Virtual CDs 46 46 46 47 52 53 53 54 54 54 56 56 57 57 Chapter 7 Virtual Hard Drive 7.1 Creating a RAM Disk 7.2 Mounting an Image into the RAM Disk 7.3 Working with Virtual Hard Drive Manager 5 60 60 61 62 7.3.1 Moving Files and Folders to a RAM Disk 7.3.2 Saving the RAM Disk Image 7.3.3 Removing RAM Disk from the System 7.3.4 Virtual Hard Drive Settings 62 63 63 63 Chapter 8 InstantBurning 8.1 Starting Instant Burning 8.2 Getting Prepared for using Instant Burning 8.2.1 Choosing right type of disc to use 8.2.2 Choosing the Default Recorder 8.2.3 Formatting a Rewritable Disc 8.3 Instant Burning Basics 8.3.1 Adding Files to Disc 8.3.2 Deleting Files from a Disc 8.3.3 Viewing Contents of a Disc 66 66 66 66 67 67 68 68 69 69 View Disc Contents on Another Computer 8.3.4 Ejecting a Disc 8.3.5 Renaming a Disc 8.3.6 Erasing a Disc 8.3.7 Viewing Disc Status 8.4 Instant Burning Settings 69 69 70 70 70 70 Chapter 9 VirtualDrive Pro Utility 9.1 Erase Disc 9.1 View the Device Information 9.3 Rapid Cache 9.3.1 Rapid Cache Features 9.3.2 Rapid Cache Settings 73 73 73 74 74 75 Chapter 10 Live Update Chapter 11 Appendix 11.1 Definitions 10.2 Technical Support and Product Update 77 79 79 83 6 Chapter 1 Introduction 7 Chapter 1 Introduction 41.1 What is VirtualDrive® Pro? VirtualDrive® Pro is the most comprehensive CD/DVD software package ever created. In addition to the CD and DVD burning features you will find in many media suites, VirtualDrive® Pro gives you two additional unique bonus features: Virtual Hard Drive, for hard drive emulation and VirtualDrive®, the No.1 CD/DVD Emulator worldwide. Features you receive with VirtualDrive® Pro include: CD/DVD Burning: Allows users to back up, share or archive various file types from the hard drive to a CD/DVD, clone CD/DVD discs and backup VCDs (VirtualDrive® CD/DVD Image files) to a physical disc. Multimedia: Allows users to create audio CDs, MP3 CDs, movie CDs/DVDs and slideshow CDs from their multimedia collections, which can be played on computers and/or home entertainment equipment. VirtualDrive®: A revolutionary software program that emulates your computer's CD/DVD-ROM drive, which enables you to run CD/DVD programs directly from your hard drive without the use of the physical CD/DVD-ROM drive or the actual disc. Virtual Hard Drive: Emulates a RAM Disk Drive to store files in non-swappable physical memory. Virtual Hard Drive works almost the same as a physical hard drive in your computer and the data can be automatically saved if any changes are made to the Virtual Hard Drive. Instant Burning: With a recordable disc in the drive, you can use the CD/DVD drive as easily as any of the drives on your local hard drive. Burning data to the disc is as easy as dragging-and-dropping files to the drive in Windows Explorer. 1.2 Features and Benefits · Customize your own CD & DVD Discs Customize your own CDs, DVDs and Images (Virtual CDs/VCDs) with selected files from other media, such as a CD, DVD or from the hard drive. The compiled Images can be configured to automatically run when inserted into a virtual drive. · Create you own Movie or Video Create customized home movies or videos from your multimedia collections. The CD/DVD you create can be played on personal computers as well as on home entertainment equiptment. · Easy Backup Searches and organizes all types of files to allow you to quickly and easily back up data onto a CD/DVD. · Clone CD/DVD Make an exact copy of an existing CD/DVD (copy protected content excluded) to another recordable CD/DVD disc. · Supports most CD/DVD formats VirtualDrive® supports the following CD/DVD formats: CD-ROM, CD-Extra, CD-Text, Audio CD, Mixed Mode CD, Photo CD, Video CD, DVD-ROM, Multi-session CD and unprotected DVD Video. · Copy protection support VirtualDrive® Pro is compatible with SafeDisc, SecuROM, LaserLock, StarForce and more. · Fully integrated with Windows 8 The XP-style user interface is completely integrated with Windows Explorer and the Windows Device Manager. Easily insert, eject and browse an Image from a familiar interface. Enable/Disable a CDs auto-run function, change CD/DVD drive letters or set your own hot-keys to insert and run VCDs quickly. · Create shortcuts for your Images This feature allows users to create desktop shortcuts to local or network Images. Double-clicking on the shortcut will insert the Image into the virtual drive quickly and easily. · Add Images from the Internet With VirtualDrive® Pro, you can add an Image that is shared on the Internet or a LAN into VirtualDrive® Pro. · VCD Cabinet Instead of storing Images all in one place, the new Cabinet function allows you to sort your Images and place them into different "cabinets" in the VCD Manager. · Export Audio Tracks Extract audio tracks from an existing audio CD, either a real CD or a virtual CD, and store them as audio files (*.WAV) or MP3 files (*.MP3) on the hard drive. · Compression VirtualDrive® Pro incorporates a high-performance compression engine for building VCD files. Compressed VCD files are automatically decompressed when accessed. · Optimized CD performance VirtualDrive® Pro plays VCDs at hard drive speed (equivalent to a 200x CD-drive). With its advanced caching technology, VirtualDrive® Pro can reduce CD access times by up to 75%. · Optimized application performance Virtual Hard Drive allows once disk-based data to be accessed from physical memory. At physical memory speeds, this will boost the performance of your programs by reading information in nanoseconds. 9 Chapter 2 VirtualDrive Pro Installation 10 Chapter 2 Installation 2.1 System Requirements · · · · Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 CD/DVD drive or recorder 50 MB of hard drive space Intel Pentium (or compatible) 233MHz processor or better 2.2 Installing VirtualDrive® Pro Step 1: Close any applications that are running before starting the installation. Step 2: Insert the VirtualDrive® Pro CD-ROM into the drive. The setup program should start automatically. If the auto-run function does not start, run the setup.exe file directly from the disc. Also, if you are installing from a network or a hard drive, double-click setup.exe to launch the Windows Installer program. Step 3: Select the language you prefer for the installation. After the Windows installation program has configured your system, the VirtualDrive® Pro installation wizard will be launched. Step 4: Carefully read the software license agreement. If you accept the terms of the agreement, select I Accept the License Agreement, and then click Next to continue. Step 5: Enter your Name, Company (optional) and Serial Number; click Next to continue. Step 6: The Installation Wizard will suggest a folder in which to install the VirtualDrive® Pro program files. If you would like to store the program files in another location, select Change to open the file browser and select a new folder. Step 7: Confirm the setup configuration and then click OK to start the installation process. Step 8: Set the number of virtual drives in your system. (Note: You must select at least one virtual drive to install VirtualDrive® Pro) Click Next to start the installation process. Step 9: You can place a shortcut on the desktop after the installation, by selecting the appropriate checkbox as the installation completes. After the installation process has completed, select Finish and the setup program should prompt you to restart the computer. Click Yes to restart the computer and launch the VirtualDrive® Pro program, or click No to restart later. Note: The VirtualDrive® Pro program is unusable until the system has been restarted. 2.3 Uninstalling VirtualDrive® Pro Step 1: Close all other programs that are running. If the VirtualDrive® Pro icon is displayed in the System Tray, right-click the icon and select Exit. Step 2: To uninstall the VirtualDrive® Pro program, use either of the following methods. Select Start in the Windows taskbar, then select All Programs VirtualDrive® Pro VirtualDrive® Pro or Uninstall Select Start Control Panel and double-click the Add or Remove Programs icon to open the Add or Remove Programs screen. Select VirtualDrive® Pro, and then select Add/Remove. Step 3: Either method will launch the VirtualDrive® Pro Uninstall Wizard. Select Remove to continue. The uninstall program will now remove all files created by VirtualDrive® Pro. 11 Note: The uninstall program will remove all files created by VirtualDrive® Pro, except the Image files (VCDs, with the "VCD" or "D00..." extension), the project files (files with the "CIF" extension), and some log files that keep a record of the VCD list in VCD Manager. These files are located in the VirtualDrive® Pro install path and can be accessed or deleted through Windows Explorer. 12 Chapter 3 Getting Started with VirtualDrive® Pro 13 Chapter 3 Getting Started with VirtualDrive® Pro 3.1 Starting VirtualDrive® Pro After installation, you can launch VirtualDrive® Pro using any of these methods: on the desktop Double-click the program icon Select Start All Programs VirtualDrive® Pro. The main functions of VirtualDrive® Pro include: Backup: Allows users to backup, share or archive various files from the hard drive to a CD/DVD, clone CD/DVD discs, or back up Images to a real disc. From this page, you can: Easy Backup Make Data CDs/DVDs Clone CD/DVD Back up Image Restore Burning Search for a specified file type on your local hard drive and burn the found files to a CD/DVD disc(s) all at once. Backup or archive your various files from the hard drive to a recordable CD/DVD disc such as a Data DVD, Data CD, Audio CD, MP3 CD, Mixed-Mode CD, CD Extra, UDF CD and Multi-Session CD. Make an exact copy of an existing CD/DVD to another recordable CD/DVD disc. Back up and burn an Image file from the hard drive to a recordable CD/DVD disc. Restore an Image and burn the contents of the Image file to a CD/DVD disc. The files on the burned disc are the original files selected to initially build the Image. Multimedia: Allows you to create an audio CD, an MP3 CD, a movie CD/DVD or a slideshow CD from your collections. Create an Audio CD Create an MP3 CD Create a Video/Movie Create a Slide Show Use MP3, WMA or other types of audio files to make an audio CD that can be played on your computer, home stereo equipment and car stereo. Create an MP3 CD that can be played on a stereo that supports the MP3 format. Create a movie from your video collections. Create a slideshow accompanied by background music and transition effects from your digital photo collections. VirtualDrive®: A revolutionary software program that emulates your computer's CD/DVD-ROM drive, which enables you to run CD/DVD programs directly from your hard drive without the use of the 14 physical CD/DVD-ROM drive or the actual disc. From this page, you can: Create VCD VCD Manager ISO Conversion Create an Image file of a CD/DVD disc and store it on the hard drive. Launch VCD Manager and enjoy the more powerful functions of VirtualDrive® Pro. Convert an Image to an ISO image, and vice versa. Virtual Hard Drive: Emulate a RAM Disk Drive to store files in non-swappable physical memory. The Virtual Hard Drive works almost the same as the physical hard drive in your computer. The data can be automatically saved if any changes are made to the Virtual Hard Drive. You can launch Virtual Hard Drive Manager from this page. Create a New RAM Drive Mount Image as a RAM Drive VCD Manager Create a new RAM Drive on your system. Mount a previously created Image file as a RAM Drive Launch VCD Manager and enjoy the more powerful functions of VirtualDrive®. Utilities: Provides tools to erase all data from a re-writable CD/DVD disc and displays detailed information about CD/DVD devices and the disc inserted in the device. From this page, you can: Erase Disc Erase all data from a re-writable CD/DVD disc (CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM). View detailed information about your CD/DVD device, including the CD/DVD recorder and the disc inserted in the recorder Set caching configurations and view disc and CD/DVD device properties. Device info Rapid Cache About: Click the Company logo on the VirtualDrive® Pro interface to view information about VirtualDrive® Pro and FarStone. You can register your product by clicking Product Registration on this page and you'll be guided to the corresponding page at FarStone's website (http://www.FarStone.com/). 3.2 VirtualDrive® Pro Start Menu After installation, the VirtualDrive® Pro icon will be displayed in the Taskbar Notification area. Double-click the icon to launch the VirtualDrive® Pro main interface. Right-click the icon to open the VirtualDrive® Pro Start Menu. (shown below) The Start Menu provides a quick entry point to the most commonly used functions of VirtualDrive® Pro. 15 Using the VirtualDrive® Pro Start Menu, you can perform the following functions quickly: VirtualDrive® Pro: Launch the VirtualDrive® Pro main interface. Instant Burning: Click to launch Instant Burning. CD/DVD Burning: Click to launch CD/DVD Burning Manager. VCD Manager: Click to launch VCD Manager. Virtual Hard Drive: Click to launch Virtual Hard Drive Manager. Insert: Click to select a virtual drive, and the Image to be inserted. (All virtual CDs that have been added into the VCD Manager will be listed for you to choose from. You can also click Open and choose an Image from the hard drive.) Eject: Click to select a virtual drive and eject the Image inserted in it. Browse: Click to select a virtual drive and view the contents of the VCD inserted in this drive through Windows Explorer. Erase Disc: Click to erase the rewritable disc inserted in the CD/DVD recorder. Note If the auto-run function of your recorder is enabled, an Auto-run dialog will be displayed. Choosing to disable the auto-run function will log you off Windows. Please save your documents and close all other applications before clicking the OK button. Enter New Serial Number: Click to enter a new serial number to activate VirtualDrive® Pro. Note A serial number can only be used on one computer on a LAN. If a serial number is used to install this program on a second computer on a LAN, the installed program will not be available. You can purchase another serial number and enter it, to activate VirtualDrive® Pro. Exit: Click to exit the VirtualDrive® Pro program. 16 Chapter 4 Baking up Data to CD/DVD 17 Chapter 4 Backing up Data to Discs 4.1 Easy Backup Easy Backup allows you to search for specific file types (extensions) and back them up to a data CD/DVD. If you ever forget the location of the files you want to back up, Easy Backup will search your computer for you and return a list of files for you to back up. To start using Easy Backup: Select Easy Backup from the Backup page on the VirtualDrive® Pro main interface. The window below will be displayed. (to be modified) Note: Easy Backup will initialize your system to prepare the search engine when you run Easy Backup for the FIRST TIME. The time it takes to complete this operation may take up to 1 hour, depending on the amount of data on your hard drive and the speed of your system. 4.1.1 Searching for Files to Back up Follow the steps below to search for and add files to a Data CD/DVD project. 1. First specify your search options in the left pane of the program window. You can specify the following options: · File name or type: In this box, type in the name or partial name of file you want to search for. You can also specify a type of file to search for. (Eg. If you want to search for word document, type in *.doc). You can also select a file type for the dropdown list to search by. By default, the program lists Image, Audio and Video file types for you to select. You can include your own file type(s) to search for (as shown in chapter 4.1.3 Customizing Search Types). · Look in: search for files in the selected directory or folder only. In the lower part of the search options pane are advanced search options, which include: · When was it modified? Specify a time range to search in. Only files within the time range you specified will be displayed in the results box. · What size is it? Specify a size limitation to search in. Only files within the size range you specified will be displayed in the results box. · More advanced options. Specify to include system files, hidden files and/or subfolders when searching. 2. After you finish defining your options, click one of the following three buttons to start searching for files on your system: 18 · · Click this button to search for new files or files modified since the last time Easy Backup was used to backup your files. Click this button to search for files that have already been backed up before. Click this button to search all files regardless if they have been backed up or not. · Click one of the three buttons to start the search engine. The progress bar in top of the left pane indicates the status of the search engine. You can click Stop to cancel the search process at any time. 3. When the search process has completed, the search results will be displayed in the results box (the upper right pane in the Easy Backup interface.) You can view the detailed information of each file in the box by right clicking on the file and selecting Properties from the popup menu. You also can preview a file by selecting Open from the file's right-click menu. To add files to the disc project, you can drag and drop the file(s) you want to back up, to the box below. Or you can right click on a file and select Add to add an individual file.) Upon adding files to the disc, a notice will displayed to asked you if would like to add the file only or to preserve the original folder structure. Select "Add files to the current folder directly"; all files will be added to the same folder on the disc. Select the "Keep the folder structure" option. Easy Backup will automatically create folder on the disc and keep the original folder structure of the added files. Check the box "Remember the choice and do not prompt next time"; this prompt window will not appear when you add files in future. Your selected settings will then be applied to all future file adding operations. If you want to change the add method, you can re-enable the prompt window in the Tools menu. On the General tab, check the "Show Add Mode window when add files" button. Options Easy Backup support creating multisession disc. You can add file to a disc that already contain some data on it. If you have checked the box "Prompt to create a multisession disc" in Tools/Options/General, you will see a prompt window asking you if you want to create a multisession disc. Click Yes to select a session on the inserted disc. Now you can add files to the inserted disc. Files added this time will be burned in another session on the disc. 19 Search Files Using the Easy Backup Wizard The Backup Wizard will automatically launch the first time you use Easy Backup. You can disable the auto-run feature of the wizard as described in step 1 below. To use the Easy Backup Wizard on the toolbar on the Easy Backup program interface. The wizard will be 1. Click the Wizard button displayed, as shown below. 2. Select a file type to search for. Please refer back to the beginning of chapter 4.1.1 for more detailed information on searching for file types. Clear the box "Auto display wizard at program startup" below to disable the auto-run feature of this wizard each time Easy Backup is run. 3. Click Next to continue. 4. Specify a Search Mode and a Search Scope and click Finish to start the search engine. Searching for Files Using Windows Explorer Search If you would like to use the Windows Explorer search engine, select Tools Windows Search from the Easy Backup menu bar. The Windows Explorer search program will be launched. To add files from the search results, simply drag and drop the files from Windows Explorer to the Easy Backup program. 4.1.2 Backing up Files Once you have added a file to the project, you can burn the project to a CD/DVD disc or create an Image file. To back up files to disc 1. Set the Default Recorder to the physical disc recorder in your computer by selecting the appropriate drive from the drop-down menu. 2. Click burn to start the burning process. Please refer to chapter 4.5.2 Burning a Project to Disc for instructions needed to complete this operation. Note VirtualDrive® Pro supports split-volume. When you have added more data to the disc project 20