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fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
edited November 2003 in Nerdery
anyone know what program *.BWI, *.BWS and *.BWT are?...

I'm thinking I need to rename them...

BWI = 707,406 KB
BWS = 28,874 KB
BWT = 1 KB

TIA

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  • hypermoodhypermood Smyrna, GA New
    edited November 2003
    They are Blindwrite CD image files used for backing up CD's.

    http://www.vso-software.fr/
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    sounds right....any chance i could rename them to .bin and .cue ? prolly not eh, nero handle them?
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited November 2003
    * bwi - blind Write image, RAW - image
    * bws - optional configuration file for Sub code
    * bwt - blind Write control file (Contains the TOC)


    "WARNING

    since BR 4.3.0, BWI file is NO LONGER COMPATIBLE with CUE/BIN file specs.

    CUE/BIN specs requires that CD image start from sector 0, BWI image now start from sector -150. BWI image is now 150*2352 bytes larger than the equivalent BIN image.
    Because of that changes, we strongly recommend to use Blindread generated images ONLY with Blindwrite."


    BUT...there could be a solution:


    "Alcohol 120% is CD/DVD emulation and recording software that allows users to copy discs. Store your most used or important CDs as images on your computer and run them at 200x speed from up to 31 virtual CD or DVD drives. Alcohol is compatible with more than 99% of drives available. It supports the latest image file types including - MDS, CCD, BIN, CUE, ISO, CDI, BWT, BWI, BWS, BWA and many more."


    Alcohol 120%
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I don't know what program can convert them but you can mount a BWT image with Daemon Tools and create a iso or cue with Alcohol 120% or CloneCD.
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited November 2003
    lol.

    BH and I were thinking the same thing...at the same time.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    :eek3:
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    so....

    mount it with Daemon...

    then create the iso ????

    im sorta newbie style so help appreciated...i just wanna get the files on CD in a simple fashion...

    im assuming they were created with Blindread...

    thanx guys
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Daemon Tools creates a virtual cd drive. The computer sees it like if it were a normal cdrom and it functions like a normal cdrom except that it takes cd images instead of actual images. After installing Daemon Tools there should be a tray icon. Click the icon once and it should say "Device 0: [x:] No media". Click that, browse and select the image you want. Now open any cd burning program you have installed, like CloneCD, Nero, Alcohol 120%, etc. If you've created cd images before then it should be straight forward. If not then I need to know what program you use so I can explain better.
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Black Hawk had this to say
    Daemon Tools creates a virtual cd drive. The computer sees it like if it were a normal cdrom and it functions like a normal cdrom except that it takes cd images instead of actual images. After installing Daemon Tools there should be a tray icon. Click the icon once and it should say "Device 0: [x:] No media". Click that, browse and select the image you want. Now open any cd burning program you have installed, like CloneCD, Nero, Alcohol 120%, etc. If you've created cd images before then it should be straight forward. If not then I need to know what program you use so I can explain better.

    ah...so thats how i see 300x cd-rom speeds...;)
    lemme go play and ill be back with any questions...thanx

    fc
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