i just installed a 2nd dvd player on my computter so that i can copy dvd's from source to my dvd burnner?

Question

now that i have installed a regular dvd player on my pc how do i set it up so that i can use it so i dont have to keep putting things on my hard drive, i want it so i can copy from it to my dvd burnner without downloading them to my hard drive how do i set the dvd's up or which is the master and slave drive, is the regular dvd player going to be the master or the slave drive and and it is on the bottom and how do i name them so that each will have a drive letter the dvd burnner that came with the pc was drive (E) . i hope that i have explained enough here so that someone will understand what i am tring to do, and will i have to have a program for the new dvd player it is used and i didnt get anything with it but the drive itself

Answer 1

First regarding the dvd roms: It doesn't matter which one you set to slave or master, as long as one is master and the other slave. That is if you are using one cable from the ide port for both of them. Also, if you are using a 80 pin cable (with a blue, black, and grey connector) you must put both dvd roms on cs (cable select).

As far as copying straight from one to the other: Yes you can do that with most any burning software, but you run a bigger risk of corrupting your dvd. You'll find that most software gives you a choice to either copy directly from one to the other, or (safer) create a temporary image on your HDD and then burn from that. It's all done in one go.

I have copied numerous dvd's straight from one to the other with no problems and i have a low end system with only 512MB ram and a amd 1800+ processor. However every once in a while i get a botched job doing it that way.

Good luck

Answer 2

Very simple. Just plug in the new dvd wrive, and windows will automatically detect and assign a new drive letter.

When you burn DVD, the program that burns the DVD still copies the data to the Hard disk first :) (You dont have to explicitly copy it, the program does it for you).

This is because DVD burning is a constant rate process, and in the middle of a write, if the source DVD gets stuck, the the destination DVD will get screwed.

Answer 3

First things first, The Master and Slave, Only determines the boot order. Theoretically you could set them both to master or both to slave, and still write back and forth. HOWEVER, What your trying to do, "Burn directly from one burner to another", Does seem like a good idea, and it is probably possible. The ram that's needed to do it would be well over a gig and a half, with that in mind not many people have bothered to attempt this, I imagine it has been done, since its not main stream, To find the specific software needed, It would be easier for you to learn programming and write the software yourself.

Answer 4

You define which is master and slave by jumpers on the dvd drive. It should be on the back of it. You should have two IDE channels on your motherboard probably. Each one will have one master and one slave available. So you can make your hard drive the master on channel 1, dvd reader slave on channel 1, and dvd-burner master on channel 2 for example. That's what I do. Just set the jumpers properly so it knows which is which.

Answer 5

When you are burning the DVD, it should ask for the source file. All you should do is click on the DVD letter that has the information you wish to burn. Same as any other file.

As for drivers for the used DVD player. Here is a link that should help you with that.

Answer 6

It dosen't mater if it master or slave.If you are using nero burning room there is an opthion that you can activate before buring that burns dvds without downloading data to the hard drive called quick copy.

Answer 7

you should always copy to the hard drive first no matter what you are doing because if something happens or a error occurs you will have a messed up dvd it might not burn completly or it could burn but be choppy if your computer slowed down for any reason

but thats just me

Answer 8

while you do this replace the ribbon cables with round cables, i would set the player as master and burner as slave, you need to set the jumpers diagram on the unit. windows will assign it letters automatically, just make sure your boot sequence is right in the BIOS

Answer 9

ur HDD set as a master and 1st dvd player set as a slave and 2nd on cable select that's it

Answer 10

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