BurnAware Professional / Premium 18.1

BurnAware is a multifunctional, easy-to-use free CD/DVD burning program for your PC. Also with this simple application it is possible to make a bootable virtual disk (ISO image), burn Blu-ray, detect bytes and tracks, back up your CD, erase and restore media.

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One of the most noticeable advantages of this program for burning discs is a simple to use, clear interface with a wide range of languages that is supported on Windows XP, 7, 8 and 10.

BurnAware Key functions:

• “Data disc”. Burn a CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc used to store electronic data, back up your hard drive or store valuable information such as taxes, reports and spreadsheets.
• “Boot Disk”. Burning a bootable CD or DVD from which you can start your computer without your hard drive. Therefore, the boot disk is usually used as a “backup disk” to start the operating system if there are problems with the hard drive. The boot disk will be created according to the ISO9660 standard (ISO9660 is the most compatible independent file system that can be read in all operating systems).
• “Audio disk”. Creation of a CD with music tracks in MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, M4A, AAC and FLAC formats, which is played in all standard CD players. For compilation, primary music files with different resolutions are automatically converted to Audio CD format before recording. You can record audio tracks all at once (Disc-at-once) or individually (Track-at-Once).
• “MP3-audio disc”. Burn a CD or DVD disc with music stored in one or more MP3 or WMA files. MP3 discs contain much more music, but the sound quality is noticeably lame compared to Audio Disc, and this disc is not played on all CD players, as some players cannot recognize the MP3 data format.
• “DVD-video disc”. Create a DVD media that contains high-quality video files and can be played on any DVD player.
• “Record ISO”. Burning an optical disc image in ISO9660 format, which is a file with the extension .iso.
• “Clear the disc”. Delete files from CD RW or RE, if your recorder supports this function. There are two types of disk cleaning: fast (erasing does not delete physically data from the disk, but makes it inaccessible by erasing references to existing content. Data can be restored) and complete (deletes data from the disk, overwriting it with zeros. The information cannot be recovered in the traditional way. Repeated complete deletion increases the probability that third parties will not be able to recover the content).
• “Disk information”. Media data description (compatibility, firmware, model, free space, sessions, file system, etc.).
• “Check the disk”. Diagnostics of inserted disk for byte errors.

Advantages of BurnAware:

• burning files to CD, DVD or Blu-ray disks
• Adding/updating multisession disks
• bootable CD or DVD burning
• CD and MP3 audio recording
• creating DVD-Video and BDMV discs
• burning of standard or boot disk emulators
• extract files and folders from ISO images
• M-Disc support

What is worth working on:

• no CD and DVD ripping function;
• it is impossible to record on several disks simultaneously.

BurnAware program supports work with a huge range of optical disks for data storage, including CD, DVD, Blu-ray, double-layer disks, M-Disc, rewritable and super-large DVDs and Blu-ray.