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How to Copy a CD or DVD Using Disk Utility

How to Copy a CD or DVD Using Disk Utility

Posted April 19, 2008 at 7:37pm by iClarified
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These are instructions on how to make a duplicate copy of CD or DVD using Mac OS X Leopard Disk Utility.

Step One
Launch Disk Utility from Applications:Utilities and select your CD from the list on the left.
How to Copy a CD or DVD Using Disk Utility

How to Copy a CD or DVD Using Disk Utility


Step Two
Click the New Image button to create a dmg of your CD or DVD.
How to Copy a CD or DVD Using Disk Utility

Step Three
Enter a name and location to save your image as then click the Create button.
How to Copy a CD or DVD Using Disk Utility

Step Four
Disk Utility will now create your new disk image.
How to Copy a CD or DVD Using Disk Utility

Step Five
Once done you will notice that your disk image will appear on the left hand side of the Disk Utility window. (ie Solo.dmg).
How to Copy a CD or DVD Using Disk Utility

Step Six
Select the dmg from the left side of the Disk Utility menu then click the Burn button.
How to Copy a CD or DVD Using Disk Utility

Step Seven
Your original CD or DVD will then be ejected and Disk Utility will indicate that it is waiting for a blank CD or DVD.
How to Copy a CD or DVD Using Disk Utility

Step Eight
Insert a blank CD or DVD then click the Burn button.
How to Copy a CD or DVD Using Disk Utility

Step Nine
Once the burning has completed you will notified that it was successful. Click the OK button to finish the process.
How to Copy a CD or DVD Using Disk Utility

How to Copy a CD or DVD Using Disk Utility
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Lois123
Lois123 - March 14, 2017 at 6:00am
It will be easy to copy DVD using Pavtube ByteCopy
vipinpatwal
vipinpatwal - November 29, 2013 at 7:37am
Its amazing, looking at the time and effort you put into your blog and detailed information you provide. I'll bookmark your blog and visit it weekly for your new posts.
Samuel
Samuel - October 9, 2013 at 5:47am
Thanks a lot! I am currently on OSX v 10.8.5; the steps are not exactly as outlined, but you showed me the idea... :)
Tien
Tien - August 15, 2013 at 11:46pm
Thank you for the help. I find it useful and it seems to work so far. I hope to be as helpful as you.
fred
fred - November 20, 2012 at 6:18pm
(does not work in OS later than leopard)
ranvir
ranvir - April 11, 2012 at 3:30am
Its true that one could create copy of DVD using disk utility but its not true while copying a drive or volume. I used Stellar drive clone to create exact replica of Mac volume. Although disk utility can create image of drive but that is not bootable one. For that purpose, one has to rely on some third party Mac cloning application.
Tim Naff
Tim Naff - September 5, 2011 at 12:32am
When I follow these instructions, the New Image button is grayed out. Everything else looks just as it does in the figure. I'm running Lion, and the disk is an audio CD that I generated myself. It is not copy protected, nor are its contents.
Quint
Quint - September 11, 2010 at 11:08pm
I tried this but the New Image Icon is gray. Won't let me do it. This is just a CD of my personal music (that I own the rights to) that I made. It's not a commercial CD?
John
John - November 24, 2009 at 9:11am
Fantastic! For dummies like me it´s the first time I understood everything without any problem. Thanks a lot.
Moon River
Moon River - May 4, 2009 at 10:16pm
Thanks for sharing! Here is a similar guide for this topic: http://www.dvdcopymacosx.com/tutorial/how-to-copy-dvd-with-disk-utility-on-mac.html?page=129
BigDaddyK
BigDaddyK - September 29, 2008 at 4:14pm
Relatively new to Macs - this seems awfully complicated to just duplicate a disc.... Any quicker way (for free)?
gargula
gargula - January 9, 2009 at 10:06pm
Use Burn: http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/
Graphsic
Graphsic - April 20, 2008 at 8:14am
Can I also copy a dvd movie by this way?
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