Aleratec 17 DVD CD Tower Publisher SLS Duplicator User Guide

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How to Make Copies from the Hard Drive - continued
Next, refill more blank media to continue making more copies, or you can press 
ESC to terminate your project and go back to the main menu.
If you’ve specified a counter value for your project and your project is 
completed, you shall see the following screen:
If you see above message, you can press ENT to go back to main menu.
Note: If you enabled the counter and the number of discs you have...

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Select Burn Speed
This process will allow you to adjust the duplication speed subject to your various 
needs.
By default, the duplication speed will be set to the optimal speed. However, 
under some circumstances, you might want to lower the duplication speed.  Those 
circumstances are as follows:
• Poor Blank Media Quality – When your media quality is not good, lowering 
down the duplication speed is necessary to make good copies.
• Poor...

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Select Burn Speed - continued 
3. Select duplication speed type.
There are different types of recording speeds:
 ▪HDD/CD to CD: Copying to CD-R/RW Media from Pre-loaded CD 
Partition or Original CD Media.
 ▪HDD/DVD to DVD: Copying to DVD±R Media from Pre loaded DVD 
Partition or Original DVD Media.
 ▪HDD/DVD-DL to DVD-DL: Copying to Double/Dual Layer Recordable 
DVD Media from Pre-loaded DVD-DL Partition or Original Double/Dual 
Layer DVD...

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Select the Source Drive
When making a copy, you will need to specify where the master is. Is it in the ROM 
drive? Or is it an Image inside the Hard Drive? This tutorial will show you how to 
change the Master Reading Source to satisfy your needs.
Basically, there are 3 scenarios that require you to select the Source drive.
1. Disc-to-Disc copy (Copy from 1st Tray) – This is the case when you would 
normally make copies on the fly. You need to...

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Select the Source Drive - continued 
b. Enter “Source Selection” menu.
Press ENT to enter into “Source Selection” menu.
You will see the following display:
c. Select desired master reading device.
Press the UP or DOWN button to select the desired master reading source. 
Then press ENT to submit your Source Selection.
d. Once your selection has been changed successfully, you shall see the 
following screen for 2 seconds:
Then you will be...

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Load Master Disc onto the Hard Drive
In order to copy from the Hard Drive, you are required to load your Master Disc 
onto a hard drive partition.
The number of partitions the hard drive can hold is determined by the capacity of 
your hard drive and the size of the partitions you created.
For example, if you have an 80GB Hard Drive with a system capacity of 74GB.* 
You can load 74 CDs or 19 DVDs (given a 4GB average capacity).
*There are many...

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Load Master Disc onto the Hard Drive - continued 
c. Press ENT to submit your selection. After your selection has been 
submitted, you will see the following display:
2. Load your Master Disc onto the Hard Drive.
a. Use the UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
b. Press ENT to enter “Hard Drive Setup” menu and you will see the 
following display:
c. Load your Master Disc on to the Hard Drive. To do so, use the UP or 
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e. You now have the choice to load your Master Disc into a new (empty) 
partition or overwrite one of the existing partitions (if any exist) by 
inputting/modifying the name you desire; or you can simply choose “Auto 
Generate” to have the system automatically generate a partition name for 
you. Afterwards, simply press the UP or DOWN arrow button to find your 
desired selection and press ENT to submit your selection. You will see the...

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Load Master Disc onto the Hard Drive - continued
h. Press ENT button to confirm. Once your Master Disc has been recognized. 
The loading progress indicator will be displayed and you shall see the 
following:
i. Once your Master Disc has been loaded completely, you will see the 
following display:
Press the ENT button to go back to the “Hard Drive Setup” menu.
“4000MB” indicates the total capacity of your Master Disc.
“423MB” indicates the...

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Rename Existing Hard Drive Partition Name
When you load your Master Disc to a hard drive partition, you are asked to give it a 
name. You can rename it at anytime afterwards (including the Reserved Partition). 
To rename your existing hard drive partition name, do the following:
1. Use the UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
2. Press ENT to enter “Hard Drive Setup” menu. You will see the following display:
3. Use the UP...