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Legal Department 15 Hammond Dr., Suite 304 Irvine, CA 92618 5 Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 41.1 What is VirtualDrive® Pro? 1.2 Features and Benefits 9 9 9 Chapter 2 Installation 2.1 System Requirements 2.2 Installing VirtualDrive® Pro 2.3 Uninstalling VirtualDrive® Pro 13 13 13 14 Chapter 3 Getting Started with VirtualDrive® Pro 3.1 Starting VirtualDrive® Pro 3.2 VirtualDrive® Pro Start Menu 16 16 18 Chapter 4 Backing up Data to Discs 4.1 Easy Backup 4.1.1 Searching for Files to Back up 4.1.2 Backing up Files 4.1.3 Customizing Search Types 4.2 Cloning Discs 4.3 Backing Up Image File 4.4 Restore Burning an Image 4.5 Burning Data CD/DVD 4.5.1 Creating a Project 4.5.2 Burning a Project to Disc 4.6 Burning Settings 4.6.1 Disabling Auto-run of Disc Drive 4.6.2 How to Choose Burning Settings 22 22 22 25 25 26 29 31 32 33 43 45 45 45 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 50 50 50 51 55 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 60 60 60 62 69 70 71 72 72 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 73 76 76 77 78 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 7.3.1 Moving Files and Folders to 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 81 81 83 84 85 85 86 87 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 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 90 90 90 90 91 92 94 94 94 95 95 95 96 96 97 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 99 99 99 101 101 102 Chapter 10 Live Update Chapter 11 Appendix 11.1 Definitions 10.2 Technical Support and Product Update 105 108 108 114 7 Chapter 1 Introduction 8 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 files from the hard drive to a CD/DVD, clone CD/DVD discs and backup VCDs (VirtualDrive® CD/DVDImage 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. The Virtual Hard Drive works almost the same as the physical hard drive in your computer and the data will 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 c ...