Hi Carol.The drive is actually created as a file on your hard disk, and not on a CD. The file starts out small then grows when you burn data to the drive. With rewritable media the file is always at its full size. Not sure why but apparently regular rewritable media write differently compared to recordable media.
Take care. Chris Hallsworth On 22/02/2011 13:19, Carol Pearson wrote:
I do understand this Chris, but presume the drive has to be created somewhere on your already existing disk, so what room do you save? What's the purpose of it? -- Carol P ---- Original Message ---- From: "chris hallsworth" <christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 11:06 AM Subject: [access-uk] To all using Phantom DriveHello all. To use Phantom Drive: 1. Launch the Phantom Drive Starter application. 2. Click the Phantom Creator button. 3. Click the create button. This will create a virtual blank disk and it will be in the virtual recorder, ready for you to use. 4. Back in the starter application, click the exit button. 5. The next thing is to burn data to your virtual recorder. You do this exactly like you would with a physical CD/DVD in a regular recorder. When it comes to the process of burning, make sure the burning application is using the virtual recorder, and not your regular one. 6. When the burn is complete, chances are your new disk will be ejected. As you are using a virtual recorder, the drive will appear as empty. 7. Now, relaunch the starter application. 8. This time, choose insert an existing image. Click the Phantom Image button. 9. Locate the image, which will have a "phi" extension. 10. You can now use your media player or CD ripper to rip the tracks on the disk, copy data from the disk, etc, just like you would with a physical CD/DVD. 11. If you intend to rip tracks, ensure the application is using the virtual recorder and not your regular one. So, in short, you use Phantom Drive to read and write CDs/DVDs just as you would with reading from and writing to physical CD/DVD in a regular recorder. The difference here is the recorder is imitated through software, Phantom Drive in this case, rather than actual physical hardware. Also note that an image here is a file representing a CD/DVD, and not a picture of something. Hope you understand all this. Please get back to me for more help. -- Chris Hallsworth ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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