Bin, Cue to dvd iso

[venney]

ok, heres the situation. i have a dvd writer, my friend doesnt. i have made bin and cue's for all 3 cd's of his game on my pc, but instead of backing up 2 cd's he wants it on a dvd, is there a way i can do this, maby open the bin and cue's and join them togher or something?
n e suggestions?
venney

[Restek]

It depends on the CDs. If they are just basic data, or music etc then I would either mount the CDs using a virtual CD tool (eg daemon tools or Alcohol) and copy the files to a new directory or use ISOBuster to extract the files from the bin into a new directory. Compile all the separate files from both cds in that one directory and then burn them back to a DVD.

However, if any of the disks are bootable, you will lose this option, and the game installer may not like it. The only way to see is to try it.

[venney]

well they are game cd's. is it not possible to do so then? no program that will conveter game bin/cue's to dvd image? what i may do, is instead o fbuyring to 3 cd's may extract to 3 folders, named cd 1, cd2 and cd3 and just burnt hem 2 a dvd if i have to.
write back. thanks

[teststrips]

the problem is this: Most game cd's require the CD to be in the drive while playing. They attach specific CD identifing files at the root of the drive. Without those files, they simply won't play. The only way you would be able to "combine" the cd images would be to put each game in a separate folder on your DVD, which will likely make them not install correctly. you probably wouldn't be able to just combine cds together, because files like setup.exe and autoplay would overwrite each other.

For the price of CD writeables, it's probably in your best interest to just burn 2 or 3 cd's for him. If you want to go the DVD route, you could simply burn the unextracted image files onto a DVD and he could install a program like Alchohol to make those Image files on your DVD show up as a "virtual drive" which means, he'd take one of the image files, put it through this program, which would give it a drive letter like E:. He could then install the game and play it, as long as he kept the "virtual drive" or recreated it whenever he wanted to play the game.

[Restek]