Alcohol 120 is a convenient utility for working with virtual drives, disk images and everything connected with them. Let's find out how to use Alcohol 120 and what functions it performs.
How to install?
The first step is to install the program on your hard drive. To do this, follow these steps:
- Download the program installer at http://www.softportal.com/software-1521-alcohol-120.html. There you will find an activated version with an endless expiration date, so you do not have to pay a license fee;
- A trial version can be downloaded from the official resource http://trial.alcohol-soft.com/en/downloadtrial.php;
- Run the installer and follow the instructions;
- After installation, run the program.
Now we learn how to use Alcohol 120 and what can be done with its functionality.
Main functionality
To begin, we list the main functions that can be useful to the average computer user:
- Creating virtual drives. It is in them that they mount ISO disc images.
- Creating the images themselves.
- Record images to external media.
- DVD / CD drive management.
Let us dwell on each of the possibilities in more detail.
Creating Virtual Drives
Alcohol 120 can burn virtual discs. Creating a drive is very simple:
- Run the program;
- In the left part of the menu, click "Virtual Disk";
- Opposite the item "Number of virtual disks" set the desired number;
- Now in the bottom window of the program, in the “Virtual DVD / CD drives” tab, the number of drives that you specified in the settings will appear.
Right-click on the desired drive and select “Mount Image” in the list that appears to place the disk image in the desired drive. Also in the menu you can open the "Properties" and see all the information about the virtual drive.
Image creation
A wizard for creating images is built into the program. To start it, click on the “Create Image” button. In the window that appears, do the following:
- Select the drive that is installed in the physical drive. It is from him that he will create a virtual image;
- Set read speed;
- Click on "Start" and wait for the end of the process.
At the bottom of the window, the path to the folder with the created image will be written.
Burn image to disk
Now let's talk about how to use Alcohol 120 to burn files to DVD and CD. To record, click the "Record Image" button. In the wizard for burning discs from images that opens, you must specify the path to the file that you want to write to the media. You can do this using the "Browse" button and selecting a directory. Now click “Next” to continue the procedure.
On the next screen, select the recording medium and other parameters. To start the procedure, click the "Start" button.
Erase discs
You can erase the contents of CD-RW / DVD-RW discs through the built-in Alcohol 120 tool. Read on for how to use the function.
In the main window of the utility, click on the "Erase disks" button. You will see the wipe rewritable media wizard. The first window will display a list of all available recorders. Next, you select the erase mode and execution speed. At the end, indicate what to do next after deleting the files. To start cleaning, click Erase.
Mastering
Alcohol 120 also allows you to create new images from existing files on your hard drive. To do this, you need an Xtra master. In it you must select the data from which the image will be created using the “Add. Files ”or“ Ext. Folder. " You can also create a separate directory, already in the image, using the "New folder" button. At the bottom of the window is a visual strip of disk filling and the required type of disk is marked depending on the size of the folders.
After adding all the files and folders, click "Next". On the next screen, select the image format, enter the name and folder to save the image to your hard disk. When finished, click "Start." Now you know how to use Alcohol 120.