How to Burn Disc from DVD Folder on Local Disk Using DVD Burning Software?

At some point, you probably need to burn a DVD, whether it is a video file or a favorite movie. Well, movies are the most common things to store on DVDs. There are many programs that can burn DVD. This article will show you how to burn a DVD from DVD folder on hard disk, and walk you through the DVD burning process.

Get the Software

Personally I use CloneDVD for all things related to DVDs. I have been using it for quite a while and I’m completely satisfied with the features it offers. It can burn any DVD to a blank DVD, DVD structure file to a DVD or burn ISO file to a DVD that you can view on all standalone DVD players.

After the then download is finished, launch the .exe file and install the DVD burning software. The installation is straightforward, just click “Next” and “OK” several times. At last, launch the program.

Start Burning DVD from Local Disk

Step 1. Load the DVD folder. Click “Browse” to select the DVD folder from your computer hard disk.

Step 2. Insert a blank DVD into the DVD drive.

Step 3. Set the DVD drive as destination.

Step 4. Select DVD as output format, and specify target DVD disc size.

Step 5. Choose copy mode. There are three copy modes available.

Entire disc: copy the whole holder to a DVD

Main movie: keep the main movie by deleting the intro, menus, language and sound tracks

Customize: burn any chapter or chapters of a DVD folder.

Step 6. Start to burn. Click button to begin the burning process.

Depending on the length of the movie, the speed of your computer, the burning can take a while. CloneDVD will eventually finish burning the DVD. Now you know how to burn a DVD and create video DVDs that can be played in any DVD player.

Select Free Disc Burning Software to Create Copies on Windows

Instead of buying expensive DVD copying software, free disc burning software is a good alternative. If you want to burn DVD copies, there are some good free sources available. One can use the disc burning freeware to create an MP3 play list and many more tasks.

There are quite a few free disc burning software programs on the Internet. Some are comprehensive as Nero and Roxio, while some are simple ones. Maybe you need more than one program to complete your complicated tasks if you need to handle all your burning needs.

To burn data DVDs for free, you can use ImgBurn. It works great as it is quite comprehensive. It can be regarded as one of the best freeware to burn DVD on Windows. It reads existing disk images, builds disk images and then burn those images onto a disk. It has the ability to burn CD, DVD, Blu-ray and HD-DVD.

To burn DVDs that work on regular DVD player, you have to use another one since ImgBurn doesn’t have the capability. BurnAware Free is able to handle CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc. The free edition empowers you to create and burn audio and MP3 CD, data and DVD-video disc, ISO and Cue Image, erase or format rewriteable disc, copy your CD or DVD to ISO image.

When you are looking for free disc burning software, you certainly want a program as versatile as possible. There are also some free comprehensive versions though there are always free trial limits or free copies limits. You can have a try, if there is one that is powerful enough yet reasonable, you can consider purchasing it. Then you don’t need to use different program to meet your different requirements if one can complete all the tasks.

What Should I Do If My Computer Freezes?

Any computer user knows how frustrating it is when a PC stops running in the middle of a complex application. The mouse is not moving and the page is not loading! Is this happening to your PC regularly? Computer freezes happen on startup usually, or the computer freezes when multi-tasking, or there is something probably wrong. Let’s know more on the reason and solution for computer freezes here.

WHY IS MY COMPUTER FREEZING?

There are lot of things that may cause your computer freezes. But the following is the main 5 ones:

a. If the Windows Registry is corrupted.
The Windows registry may be corrupted by a virus, Trojan horse or malware, or a sudden computer hangup or crashes. Once
this happens, software would send a message to the registry that became garbled and was recorded improperly. What you need to do is to clean the corrupted Windows registry by some registry cleaner software.

b. If the drivers are corrupted or outdated.

If drivers on a computer are outdated or corrupted, it could also cause computer errors, crashes or freezes. To keep your drivers updated regularly is a good habit for every computer user.

c. If the computer is infected by a virus or malware.

Every one knows how harmful a virus or malware is to a computer. To prevent your computer from freezing, do not forget to install great antivirus software and scan virus on time.

d. If the hard drive or file system errors happen.

If your hard drive becomes damaged, it also can cause computer freezes. It would let you lose all data permanently or make your software crash. Do disk check timely can avoid such problems.

e. If the computer is in a bad location.

The best place for computer should be cool and dry. Do something to keep your computer from overheating, such as make sure all the fans are open and spinning, have the dust blown out every few months, do not put the computer in direct sunlight or leave it in a hot car.

WHAT SHOULD I DO IF MY COMPUTER FREEZES?

Once your computer freezes, do the following to restart your computer:

Step 1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del at the same time till a box popup, where you will see all the currently running programs on your computer.

Step 2. Close all the programs that are marked as “not responding” in the status column one by one by clicking “End Task”. It may also let you lose all unsaved documents.

Step 3. Finally, reboot the computer. Unluckily, all the data lost during the computer freezes is not recoverable.