Any such thing as free cd burning software?

[Dhawk]

Well, is there? The only thing I have been able to find is the 30 day eval version of Nero. Is there anything else out there? I only need it to burn back ups on office data files.

I am willing to buy something if I have to. Just thought I would see if there was any freeware or shareware out there first.

Thanks

 

[YaKuZa]

If you are running WinXP, you can use the one it comes with.

 

[Electrode]

cdrtools

It's a collection of command-line mastering and burning tools. Free of course. The only problem I can think of is that I don't know how well, if at all, it works on Windows. If you've got a *NIX system in the office, you can just install it (if it's not already installed, which it probably is if you're running Linux) along with a nice GUI frontend like cdbakeoven or xcdroast, and you're ready to go.

 

[Dhawk]

I am running Win 2000 on my laptop.

 

[Workin']

Originally posted by: Dhawk
I am running Win 2000 on my laptop.

Get Nero. It's one program that's really worth the tiny amount of money they charge for it.

 

[Dhawk]

Originally posted by: Workin'

Originally posted by: Dhawk
I am running Win 2000 on my laptop.

Get Nero. It's one program that's really worth the tiny amount of money they charge for it.

I agree. I was just being cheap and have never really looked to see if there were any alternatives out there.

I did a Google search and found a product called cd mate. I just tried it to burn a couple of small word docs and it worked great. I was lazy and have not read thru everything to see how much it is after the eval time is up.

 

[Codewiz]

There is a program called "BurnatOnce" that uses an Open Source burning engine. It burns pretty much everything and anything you could want. It is totally free It just isn't the easiest to make compilations with.

 

[Dhawk]

Originally posted by: Codewiz
There is a program called "BurnatOnce" that uses an Open Source burning engine. It burns pretty much everything and anything you could want. It is totally free It just isn't the easiest to make compilations with.

Codewiz, Thanks. I think this is really what I was looking for. BurnAtOnce For anyone else that is looking for it. I will post back once I've tried it.

 

[Codewiz]

Just a little word of advice. In Win2k or XP, it doesn't lock the cd-rw drive so if you accidentally do something in "My Computer" to the cd-rw while it is burning, it will kill the burn. This might have been fixed but I am not sure. I have killed like 2 cds because I opened media player and it tried to access the cd-rw while burning.