How to burn a disc on a Mac computer

　　When it comes to burning discs with apples, it is familiar to many peers, an apple machine, a burner and a burning software. But the CD has a variety of formats, different kinds of CDs have different place, when you face all kinds of complex situations, you can choose the most appropriate way to deal with it? after reading my article, you will be familiar with the disc burning, natural and comfortable.

When it comes to Apple burning, we have to talk about toast, the bread machine we used to talk about, it's the most widely used burning software on Apple now, and this article takes toast as an example to talk about its setting and use. Of course, toast is not a panacea, although it is also constantly improving and upgrading, in the article you will also see in some special circumstances we use other software.

Apple's most commonly used discs are the five types, Mac Volume (ie, apple volume format), Mac files & Folders (ie, Apple file and folder format), ISO 9660 (that is, PC format), Mac/iso Hybrid (that is, Apple/pc mixed format), As well as audio-visual format (including VCD and CD-ROM), for everyone in addition to the DVD we have access to the various types of optical discs, then what is the difference between them, and how to burn it? Please listen to me slowly.

1.MAC Volume format CD: Mainly used for system CD burning. It treats the disc as if it were the same as our hard disk, so you can start your Mac with a CD of this format. For disc burning in this format, we give an example of a system disk burn. The general burning system disk, are required to engrave, is the original system disk into the optical drive, the CDR into the burner, and then choose the MAC volume format, select the original system disk as the source file, and then burn. This is very high demand for the original disk, if there are scratches or dirty points will affect the optical drive reading data accuracy and time, resulting in the speed of reading files less than the speed of burning files, so that the burn failed, which is why the system is easy to engrave one of the reasons. In addition, the MAC volume must select the bootable (bootable) option, the machine will be able to boot from the CD normal, which is the system disc easily carved the reason for the bad. So how should the system disk be carved? The safest way to do this is to create an image of the original system disk and then carve it from the image. But if the original disk quality is not good, from the original disk to build the image is also very difficult, we have a better way. First, create a new image file with software such as DiskCopy (Apple's own software) the image should be equal to the size of the original disk or slightly larger, the name can be called Mac OS or something (hehe ~ See your preferences), of course, you can also add your favorite icon, Then drag all the files in the original system disk into the image, so that if the file is not readable and can be copied separately, it will not be a problem. After the copy is over, your image file is the image of the system, you can use this file to burn the system CD, as long as you do not forget to choose bootable on the line. In this way, you can also customize your startup CD. In fact, as long as the system folder on the system CD can be started, the other content we can choose, such as the Norton and WD into a Startup disk (Norton running needs to be included in the functional extension of the Norton Shared Lib file), it is very convenient. MAC volume format of the set also has an option called autostart (that is, automatic operation), if you choose this setting, the software will require you to specify the automatic operation of the file, engraved well, when the disk into the CD-ROM drive, you can automatically run the files you set, very cool Oh!

2.MAC Files & folders format CD: Mainly used for Apple data backup, is the most commonly used format, is the CD as one of our folders to treat. There are no special settings for this format.

3.ISO 9660 format CD-ROM: It is mainly facing PC, is one of the bridge of Cross-platform exchange files. For this format, there is a unique setting. The general toast in the ISO 9660 format is not supported by default in Chinese filename, and requires that each file must have a suffix for pc identification, it is for these reasons, using the ISO 9660 format is more cumbersome. In general, attention to these points will not be a problem: whether the file has a suffix, generally should be three letters suffix, such as *.psd is Photoshop format files, *.PM6 is PageMaker 6 of the file, *.P65 is PageMaker 6.5 of the file, *. Ai9 is illustrator 9 file and so on, select the Allow Macintosh names option when setting, which can support the use of Chinese filename (for this option can be set to the software default, that is, select the Point Set Defaults button, Don't worry about it again next time.

4.mac/iso Hybrid Format CD: It is actually a CD-ROM into two areas to treat, one area is Apple volume format, the other is the use of the PC in the ISO 9660 format, the CD-ROM on a platform to use when not seeing another format of the file. The most common example is the installation CD for the Epson printer. For this type of disc format, we can load content into the Apple and PC areas separately without affecting each other. For example, in the Apple area to install their own customized system disk, and PC area installed Pc-maclan Software Installation version, hehe ~ Such a good dongdong who do not want?!

5. For VCD and CD-type CD-ROM, because we can not copy the video or audio files to the hard disk, so engrave this kind of CD-ROM relatively troublesome. In toast5.x has added the recording function of audio files, we can use this feature to burn CDs easily. In addition, you can use the CD-ROM copy method to engrave the VCD. However, this is required on the premise of the engraved, the original disc quality problem is placed on the desktop again, if the original file can be copied to the hard disk and then burn, will undoubtedly greatly enhance the success of the protection. But Apple's inability to make CDs and VCD files is a hardware cause, and we have to find another way to solve them. Under normal circumstances, I choose Astarte cd-copy This software to complete this work, it can be CD and VCD files to generate image files, directly can be used for toast burning work, very convenient. You can also use toast to mount the image on the desktop, how about? Successfully copied CD, VCD files to the hard disk, burning work is easy.

The above is about the five common format of the CD-ROM recording method, for toast, there are some other functions are also important, such as the continued engraved (Write session) function. If you burn a file that is not sufficient to fill the entire disc, the resume (Write session) function will appear important and economical. For the MAC volume format, the continuation of the function is unnecessary, if you choose to continue, then the CD startup function is lost, this is not want to see, so in the burning system disk must choose to burn the disc (write disk) instead of the continuation of the moment (write session). For the MAC Files &folders format CD, each time you repeat a letter, until the disc is full, this is why some discs have two-letter reasons. For the ISO 9660 format disc, there is a separate setting for the continuous engraving. When the ISO 9660 format is selected, the setting will appear with three options, Ignore Existing Sessions (ignoring existing files), Append to "-" (add to original file), and incremental backup (incremental backup), Should generally choose the second append to "-", so that you can keep the original file intact, the new content is added to the original CD directory; Selecting the first setting will take the new content as the primary directory for the CD and include the contents of the CD's previous content in the new catalog , and the choice of the third option will create a new disc content, resulting in the loss of the original disk content.