Although many computers are now sold without an optical drive to read discs and even if streaming services for listening to music and watching movies are now widespread, both CDs and DVDs are still far from becoming obsolete. Burning, which means copying data to a CD or DVD, is still a very useful thing, for example, to create backup copies of photos and important files, to bring a movie to a friend's house, to make a CD of songs to be used in the car and for many other reasons.
And since you can't waste time on such a consolidated operation that should be as simple as making coffee, you need a program to burn that is super easy to use, stable, free, that supports all copy modes and that does not fail never.
Although there are many, the choice is substantially reduced between two programs: CDBurnerXP, which I had already described in another article, and Burnaware, which has recently been updated to version 10, becoming a truly effective solution.
BurnAware is a burning software for Windows PC (XP to Windows 10) that has existed for many years, capable of creating bootable discs, audio CDs, video DVDs, which also supports Blu-ray burners and copying to multiple discs.
These standard features are now made easier in the new BurnAware 10 user interface, available for free download from this direct link (by clicking on " mirror download ").
During installation, just be careful to reject the sponsor program which, at the moment, is the useless McAfee WebAdvisor.
The main screen of the program displays three ways of burning:
- Data: to copy files to a CD or DVD and to create a bootable disc.
- Multimedia: to create Audio CDs, MP3 discs or DVD Videos.
- Disk images: to copy an ISO to disk, also as bootable ISO at boot.
The fourth menu, the tools menu, allows you to erase rewritable discs, read disc information and check CDs or DVDs.
All copy options and modes are also quickly accessible from the File menu.
