Optical discs (CDs and DVDs) are now used extremely rarely, since their niche as portable storage media has been occupied by flash drives. In the article below we would like to introduce you to ways to copy information from disks to flash drives.

The procedure is not much different from the banal operation of copying or moving any other files between different storage media. This task can be performed either by third-party tools or using Windows tools.

Method 1: Total Commander

Total Commander was and remains number 1 in popularity among third-party file managers. Of course, this program is also capable of transferring information from a CD or DVD to a flash drive.

1. Open the program. In the left working panel Using any available method, go to the flash drive into which you want to place files from the optical drive.



2. Go to the right panel and there go to your CD or DVD. The easiest way to do this is in the drop-down list of drives; the drive is highlighted there with a name and icon.
   
   
   Click on the name or icon to open the disc for viewing.
3. Once in the folder with the disk files, select the ones you need by clicking left button mouse with clamped Ctrl. Selected files are marked with a light pink name color.



4. WITH optical disks It is better not to cut out information, in order to avoid failures, but to copy it. Therefore, either click on the button that says "F5 Copy", or press the key F5.



5. In the copy dialog box, make sure you have selected the correct destination and click "OK" to start the procedure.
   
   
   She might take certain time, which depends on many factors (disk condition, drive condition, type and reading speed, similar flash drive parameters), so be patient.
6. If the process completes successfully, the copied files will be placed on your flash drive.

The procedure is quite simple, however optical discs are known to be capricious - if you encounter problems, visit the last section of this article dedicated to possible problems.

Method 2: FAR Manager

Another alternative file manager, this time with a console interface. Thanks to its high compatibility and speed, it is almost ideal for copying information from a CD or DVD.

FAR Manager is known for being lightweight and almost lightning fast, so we can recommend this method for users of low-power computers or laptops.

Method 3: Windows System Tools

Most users will be satisfied with the fairly convenient file and directory management implemented in Windows by default. All separate versions of this OS, starting with Windows 95, have always had tools for working with optical disks.

As practice shows, failures and problems most often arise when using standard "Conductor".

Method 4: Copy data from protected drives

If the disk from which you are going to transfer data to a flash drive is protected from copying, then third-party methods file managers And "Conductor" they won't help you. However, for music discs there are quite a few tricky way copy using Windows Media Player.

1. Insert the music disc into the drive and start it.
   
   
   By default, Audio CD playback starts in Windows Media Player. Pause playback and go to the library - a small button in the upper right corner.



2. Once in the library, look at the toolbar and look for the option “Setting up copying from disk”.
   
   
   Click on this option and select from the dropdown list "Extra options…".



3. A settings window will open. Tab open by default "Copying music from a CD", that's what we need. Pay attention to the block “Folder for copying music from a CD”.
   
   
   To change the default path, click on the corresponding button.
4. A directory selection dialog box will open. Go to your flash drive and select it as the final copy address.



5. Set the copy format as "MP3", "Quality…"- 256 or 320 kbit/s, or the maximum allowed.
   
   
   To save settings, press "Apply" And "OK".
6. When the options window closes, look at the toolbar again and click on the item "Copy music from CD".



7. The process of copying songs to the selected location will begin - progress is displayed as green bars next to each track.
   
   
   The procedure will take some time (5 to 15 minutes), so please wait.
8. Once the process is complete, you can go to the flash drive and check if everything has been copied. A new folder should appear containing music files.

Copying videos from protected DVDs cannot be done using system tools, so we will resort to third party program called Freestar Free DVD Ripper.

1. Insert the video disc into the drive and run the program. In the main window, select "Open DVD".



2. A dialog box will open in which you need to select a physical drive.
   
   

   Attention! Do not confuse a real device with a virtual drive, if any!

3. The files available on the disk are marked in the box on the left. On the right is the preview window.
   
   
   Mark the videos you need by checking the boxes on the right next to the file names.
4. Videos cannot be copied “as is”; they will have to be converted in any case. So take a look at the section "Profile" and select a suitable container.
   
   
   As practice shows, the best in terms of “size/quality/no problems” ratio will be MPEG4, we select it.
5. Next, you should select the location of the converted video. Click the button "Browse" to bring up the dialog box "Conductor". We select our flash drive in it.



6. Check the settings and then press the button "Rip".
   
   
   The process of converting the clips and copying them to the flash drive will begin.

Note: In some cases, it is better to copy multimedia files not directly from the disk to a flash drive, but first save them to your computer, and then move them to the flash drive.

For disks that lack protection, it is better to use methods 1-3 described above.

Possible problems and malfunctions

As already mentioned, optical discs are more demanding and demanding in terms of storage and use conditions than flash drives, so problems with them are common. Let's look at them in order.

• Copy speed is too slow
  The cause of this problem can be either a flash drive or a disk. In a universal way in this case, intermediate copying is necessary: ​​first copy the files from the disk to HDD, and from there to a flash drive.
• Copying files reaches a certain percentage and freezes
  In most cases, this problem means there is a problem with the CD: one of the files being copied is incorrect or there is a damaged area on the disk from which data cannot be read. The best solution in such a situation, the files will be copied one at a time, and not all at once - this action will help to detect the source of the problem.
• Disc is not recognized
  A common and quite serious problem. There are several reasons for this, the main one being the scratched surface of the CD. The best solution would be to remove an image from such a disk and work with virtual copy, and not the actual carrier.

  High probability of problems with disk drive, so we recommend checking it too - for example, inserting another CD or DVD into it. We also recommend that you read the article below.

To summarize, we would like to note: every year more and more PCs and laptops are produced without hardware for working with CD or DVD. Therefore, finally, we would like to recommend that you make copies of important data from CDs in advance and transfer them to more reliable and popular drives.

How to move a folder from one drive to another, how to copy files from a computer to a flash drive - such questions can often be heard from novice computer users. Since it is difficult to explain these actions in words, I created a lesson with pictures in which I show how to copy files and folders to a flash drive, to another drive, to another folder.

How to open a flash drive, folder for copying

1) First, open the folder to which we will copy.

Double-click on the Computer icon (in Windows 7), or My Computer (Windows XP). This icon is usually located in the upper left corner of the monitor screen (desktop).

A window will open with the contents of your computer (Fig. 1). This is what the window looks like in Windows 7.

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And this is how the window looks in Windows XP (Fig. 1a).

The windows on your computer may also differ due to settings appearance. I don't think it's necessary to waste time changing the appearance of windows. It's immaterial. I draw attention to the most important points.

List Hard disks . In Fig. 1 you see in the list, 4 local disks on a computer, in Figure 1a we see 2 local disks on another computer. The minimum can be 1 local disk, this is when the computer has one hard drive (hard drive) installed and it is not divided into local disks.

List Devices with removable media. Your CD and DVD drives will be visible in this list. Your flash drive will appear in the same list when you insert it into the USB input of your computer. For example, in Fig. 1, the flash drive is visible under the name Removable drive(TO). Your drive will most likely be assigned a different letter, depending on the number of drives on your computer.

IN in this example I want to copy a folder from a flash drive to local drive N. Therefore, double-click on Local disk (N) in Fig. 1.

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A list of folders and files on my N drive opened. If you need to create a new folder into which you will transfer files from the flash drive, I wrote in red where you need to right-click to create a new folder. And I think you’ve already learned the lesson on creating a folder.

If you want to drag a folder from a flash drive directly to the disk (and not to an additional folder), then you do not need to create a folder. In this case, we assume that we have already prepared the disk to which we will copy the folder from the flash drive.

Now take the window by the top edge and drag it to the right, or down. I wrote in red where you need to press the left mouse button and, without releasing it, drag the window to the side or down. Practice dragging windows!

2) Now you need to open the flash drive (disk) from which we will copy.

Double-click on the " icon again My computer". A new window opens, exactly the same as in the pictures. But, if in the first case, we selected the disk where to copy, now we need to open the disk from which we will copy.

I was going to copy from a flash drive. In my case it is Removable disk H(Fig. 1). I double-click on this disk and a window with the contents of the flash drive will open.

The window from which we are copying and the window into which we are copying should not completely cover each other. I placed them one above the other (Fig. 3), and if you have a widescreen monitor, you can place the windows side by side.

How to copy files and folders.

Now we can see the contents of both disks in two different windows. To do this, I move the cursor over the desired folder, I press the left mouse button. Then, without releasing the left mouse button, I drag the folder from the top window to the bottom window.

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When “+ Copy to Local Disk” appears, release the mouse button and the folder will be copied to a new window.

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Windows XP is a little different. A + and a vertical line appear there, indicating where the folder will be copied (Fig. 4).

This way you can copy files and folders from one local disk to another, from a flash drive to a local disk, from a local disk to a flash drive. If you inserted 2 flash drives at once, you can immediately copy from one flash drive to another.

How to transfer rather than copy folders and files.

You and I copied a folder from one disk to another. After checking that the folder has appeared in its new location, double-click it to make sure that the contents of the folder are also in place.
Now you can delete the old folder that you copied. To do this, click the cursor on the old folder once so that it is highlighted, and then press the Delete key. Windows will ask again:
"Are you sure you want to send the folder to the Trash?" Click the "Yes" button. And the folder will be in the trash.

Note. You can make sure that when dragging, the old folder is immediately deleted. To do this, do everything as in Fig. 3, but keep the Shift key pressed. The folder will appear in the new window and disappear in the old one. However, until you have gained experience working on a computer, I advise you to follow the above scheme.

A common error when copying files.

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Often, novice users release the mouse button when the copied file (or folder) is located above another folder (Fig. 5). As a result, the file ends up inside that folder, and the user begins a long search to find out where the file went.

If you borrowed a disc from a video DVD or CD and liked the contents, then in order to watch it several more times in the future (offer it to others), then it would be a good idea to copy it to a computer, or even better to an external hard drive or flash drive - it’s more reliable.

The process of copying video is similar for all drives and there is nothing complicated.

Difficulties arise only if you want to record a video (for example, a film) on DVD disc for viewing on TV through a player - copying will not work.

Then you will need . A lot of them.

I will not dwell on the recording process, but will only describe the simplest and most quick way how to copy video from disk to computer.

Instructions for copying discs to a computer

First of all, open the drive and insert the disc into it. Then click on the computer line (on the right side).

The entire contents of the disk on your computer or laptop will open in front of you.

Highlight it in blue (hold down the left mouse button and move up from the bottom of the window or vice versa) and, now pressing the left button, click in the “copy” tab that appears.

Now select the location (folder) where you want to save the copied video on your computer and, pressing the left key in it, click on the “paste” line.

After this, all the contents will appear on your computer, if, of course, you do it correctly - as described.

There are of course many other ways. You can simply drag and drop files (videos) and copying will occur automatically or use hotkeys.

Try the method described above for now, and over time you will learn the rest. Good luck!

Nowadays, disks are no longer used so often; even new computers often don’t have disk drives, and small laptops don’t even have them - they take up too much precious space. In this article we will look at how to correctly copy the contents of one CD/DVD disc to another.

How to copy a data disk to another disk

If you have regular files on your disk, for example, mp3 files or various kinds of documents, then copying the disk is as easy as shelling pears. There's no need to even resort to special programs. Just select all the files and folders on the disk and copy to any folder on your computer. Then insert a blank disk into the drive and open it in Windows Explorer. Copy or drag files previously copied from another drive there. All that remains is to right-click on the disk icon and select “Burn”.

If you are copying, for example, an audio disc, then you will not be able to simply copy it to your hard drive. To do this you need to make a full disk image. Then expand this image to new disk. Windows does not have a built-in tool for creating images, so we will use a simple and free program called Small CD-Writer (virus tested). It's simple, first you create an ISO image and then burn it to disk.

Common errors when copying discs

Even if you have 2 CD/DVD drives installed in your computer, you should not make copies on the fly. This is simpler, no intermediate step is needed, but it is not very reliable.

When writing data to disk, do not select the maximum speed, as this also increases the likelihood of recording errors.

If you have any questions, we will definitely help you!

Sometimes we need to copy a movie or other video file directly from the original disc. However, this is unlikely to be possible without special software, especially for the average user. Duplicate the video you need from physical media to excellent quality will help - for example, the Russian-language Disk Studio utility. Now we will tell you how to record video from a disc to your computer in the shortest possible time. With this software you will learn how to produce high-quality DVD ripping in just 15 minutes.

Step 1. Download the program

First of all, you need to go to the official website. Since the distribution weighs only 50 megabytes, you can download it as quickly as possible. Next, unpack the downloaded archive by double clicking the mouse. Follow the instructions of the Installation Wizard that opens to install all application components on your PC. Create an icon on your desktop for easier access to the utility. Launch the program and proceed to the next step.

Step 2: Determine the recording mode

In the main window you will see a list of options. Select the latest Disc Ripping > DVD Ripping. Make sure that the optical media you are going to use is not copy protected. Check the corresponding box and click the “Continue” button. Then you will need to select the drive or file folder as the ripping source.

Step 3. Mark files to copy

Before you burn video from a disc to your computer, you need to select the DVD fragments you are interested in. Full list clips you will see in the left column of the editor. Check the boxes for the videos or DVD chapters you want to copy, and then click “Next.”

Step 4: Select Video Format

Offers you to export selected episodes to one of the available formats. You can convert them to AVI or HD, upload them to a portable device, publish them online, or convert them to another extension. Select the appropriate option from the list, and then confirm your choice again with the “Next” button.

Step 5: Set options

At this point, you will need to configure the necessary configurations for future videos. Set the desired codec, playback quality and file size. If necessary, check additional audio settings. Click the “Next” button and proceed to the next step.

Step 6. Start the conversion

So, we are finishing our story about how to record video from a disc to a computer. Now decide on a folder to save video clips. To do this, use the “Browse” button and click on a particular folder. Click "Next" and wait for the file conversion process to complete. Once copying is complete, click “Open File Folder” to check that your videos have been converted correctly.