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Making Disc-to-Disc Copies - continued
e. 2 or 3 seconds after copying begins the following “Copy Progress” screen 
will appear:
Note: It is normal to see the progress indicator stay at 
0-10% and at 100% for approximately 30 seconds during 
CD duplication. Additionally it is normal to see the progress 
indicator stay at 0-10% and at 100% for up to 1 minute during 
DVD duplication. This delay is caused by the initializing and 
finalizing stage of disc duplication. Once the disc duplication is 
completed, successful copies will be ejected and you will see 
the following display:
Counter SpecifiedNo Counter
“4012MB” indicates the capacity of the Master Disc.
“481MB” indicates the current progress of the duplication in terms of MB.
“12%” indicates the current progress of the duplication.
“0/21” indicates you have a project size of 21 copies and you have made 0 copies so far.
“4012MB” indicates the capacity of the Master Disc.
“481MB” indicates the current progress of the duplication in terms of MB.
“12%” indicates the current progress of the duplication.
“0” indicates that you have made 0 copies so far.
“FAIL 0” indicates that you have no failure in this run.
“PASS 7” indicates that you’ve just made 7 successful copies.
“7” indicates that you’ve successfully copied 7 copies so far.
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To continue making additional copies, remove the successfully completed copies 
from the ejected trays and replace with blank discs. To terminate your project and 
return to the main menu, press ESC. 
If you’ve specified a counter value you will see the following display when your 
project is completed:
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 blank discs you 
have inserted is greater than the number you requested, you will 
receive a message indicating you have inserted more discs than 
what you need. You can continue to copy or you can eject the extras 
discs.
Note: Failed discs will not be ejected automatically. You will need to 
manually eject these. 
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Make Hard Drive (HDD)-to-Disc Copies 
Copying from the Hard Drive is the best way to make copies. Overall, there are 3 
benefits to copying from the Hard Drive:
1. Performance – Duplicating from the Hard Drive will be able to boost the DVD 
duplication speed to 8x or above.
2. Stability – Duplicating from Hard Drive will stabilize the duplication process 
compared to the Disc to Disc duplicating.
3. Convenience – With your Master Discs stored inside the Hard Drive, you can 
have access to each one easily. There is no need to carry your Master Discs; 
they are all stored inside the duplicator.
The capacity of any created partition will be the same as the size of your Master 
Disc rounded up to the next Gigabyte.
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. Your HDD is 320GB. 
• Hard Drive Manufactures use conversion rate of 1GB. However, most Operating 
Systems, including our Duplication System use standard conversion rate of 
1GB = 1.074 Billion Bytes or 1024^3 Bytes. Therefore, for an advertised 80GB 
Hard Drive (80 Billion Bytes), the Duplication System capacity is actually 74.5 
Billion Bytes (74.5GB).
• In addition, we round off all fractions of a GB to the lower whole number. That 
means for a hard drive that has a 74.5GB system capacity, we only recognize and 
utilize 74GB.
The  steps to load a Master Disc to the Hard Drive as a partition and copy the stored 
partition onto blank discs can be found in the tutorial beginning on page 35 of this 
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How to Make Copies from the Hard Drive
When you turn on your duplicator, after it has booted up, you should see the 
following signifying your duplicator is ready.
1. Make sure the Source is set to the Hard Drive.
It is very important to make sure the Source is set to the Hard Drive in order to 
avoid unnecessary error messages. To check what the Source is set to, please do 
the following:
a. Use UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
b. Press ENT to enter Select Source Menu and you will see the following:
Make sure it is located at “Hard Drive”. If not, then you need to press UP 
or DOWN navigation button to search for it.
c. Press ENT to submit your selection. After your selection has been 
submitted, you will see the following:
2. Load your Master Disc onto the Hard Drive. 
If you have already loaded your Master Disc onto the Hard Drive, then you can 
skip step 2 and go to step 3.
a. Use UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
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DUPLICATOR 1.009. Select Source
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Hard Drive Port 0Hitachi HDT25025VLAT80
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How to Make Copies from the Hard Drive - continued
b. Press ENT to enter Hard Drive Setup Menu and you shall see the following:
c. Now, load your Master Disc on to the Hard Drive. To do so, use UP or 
DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
d. Press ENT to enter Load Partition Menu and you shall see the following:
e. Now, you have a choice to load your Master Disc into a new (empty) 
partition or overwrite one of the existing partitions (if any exists, including 
Reserved Partition) by inputting and 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 following (unless you have chosen “Auto 
Generate”, then please skip to Step “h”):
f. Now, you can name the partition you are about to load into the Hard Drive. 
To enter the name, you need to use the UP or DOWN buttons to select the 
character and use ENT or ESC button to move the cursor position and once 
you’ve finished, move the cursor to OK and press ENT.  
*The 228GB indicates the available capacity of your hard drive in terms of GB.
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Load Partition [ 228GB]Load -> New Partition
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For example, if you want to name the partition for your Master Disc as 
“FUN”. Then do the following:
Make sure the cursor is located at the first position:
i. Press DOWN button consecutively until “F” is displayed.
ii. Press ENT button once to move the cursor to the next position.
iii. Press DOWN button consecutively until “U” is displayed.
iv. Press ENT button once to move the cursor to the next position.
v. Press DOWN button consecutively until “N” is displayed.
vi. Press ENT button once to move the cursor to the next position.
vii. Now, we have the name “FUN” displayed and then, press ENT 
consecutively until the cursor is moved to OK.
viii. Then, press ENT once to submit your name selection.
g. Now you shall see the following confirmation screen:
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:
“4000MB” indicates the total capacity of your Master Disc.
“423MB” indicates the current MB from the Master Disc that has been loaded.
“FUN” indicates the name of the partition the data is being loaded onto.
“10%” indicates the current percentage of the Master Disc that has been loaded.
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Load Partition?[FUN        ] OK?
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How to Make Copies from the Hard Drive - continued
i. Once your Master Disc has been loaded completely, you shall see the 
following:
Then, you can press ENT button to go back to the Hard Drive Setup Menu.
3. Go back to “COPY” Menu.
a. Press ENT button to go back to the main menu. You shall see the following:
b. Use UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
4. Start the Copy Process.
a. Now, please insert your blank discs into the Writer Trays (make sure the 
Reader Tray is empty) and press ENT button to enter the “COPY” menu. 
You will be asked to choose which hard drive partition to copy from:
b. Choose the desired partition to copy from and press ENT button to submit 
your selection. Then you shall see the following Counter Selection Menu:
c. The Counter Selection Menu will let you to choose how many copies you 
want to make for your project. This Counter Selection feature will allow 
the duplicator to count the number of copies you’ve made and prompt you 
when the desired number of copies has been made.
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Load Partition OK!Press OK to Continue 
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DUPLICATOR 1.0011. Hard Drive Setup
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You can select “No Counter” if you prefer to copy continuously with no 
interruption. (It will still count the number of copies, but it will not notify 
you when to stop.) To select the “No Counter”, simply press ENT button 
when you see the screen above. Then skip below and continue on to step 
“d”.
Or, you can select “Specify Counter” to specify the number of copies (1 to 
9999) by pressing the UP or DOWN navigation button to the below screen:
Then please press ENT button to submit. You shall see the screen below:
To specify the number of copies for your project, you need to enter/input 
a 4-digit number. If you are planning to specify a number that is less than 
4 digits, please fill the leading spaces with “0”s (any leading “0” will 
be skipped). An example of that 4-digit number could be “0234” (Two 
hundred and thirty four), or “0010” (ten). Remember, the beginning “0”s 
are skipped, therefore “0010” means “10”, which is the number 10.
To enter the number, you need to use UP or DOWN button to select the 
number for each digit and use ENT or ESC button to move the cursor 
position right or left, once you’ve finished, move the cursor to OK and 
press ENT. For example, if I want to specify a counter value of 21 (twenty 
one). The 4-digit value would be “0021”. To input the desired quantity, 
please do the following:
Make sure the cursor is located at the first position:
i. Press DOWN button consecutively until “0” is displayed.
ii. Press ENT button once to move the cursor to the next position.
iii. Press DOWN button consecutively until “0” is displayed.
iv. Press ENT button once to move the cursor to the next position.
v. Press DOWN button consecutively until “2” is displayed.
vi. Press ENT button once to move the cursor to the next position.
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How to Make Copies from the Hard Drive - continued
vii. Press DOWN button consecutively until “1” is displayed.
viii. Now, we have “0021” displayed and then, press ENT once and the 
cursor is now moved to OK.
ix. Then, press ENT once to submit your counter value.
Now you shall see following screen:
Note: If the ABOVE screen is displayed for more than 2 minutes, 
please check your Blank Discs for quality.
d. Please allow 5-10 seconds for the duplicator to detect your Hard Drive 
partition and Blank Discs as well. After your Hard Drive partition and 
Blank Discs have been recognized, then you shall see the following 
screen:
Note: By default, the “Auto Start” setting is set to “Auto”. For 
example, if your duplicator has detected 3 blank discs and 
didn’t detect any additional blank discs for 30 seconds, then the 
duplication will be started automatically.
Note: Once the number of blank discs you inserted matches 
the number of discs detected on the screen. Then press ENT (if 
you are not using Auto Start or wish to speed up the process) to 
confirm and the following Processing screen will appear.
The “7” indicates there are 7 discs that were recognized by the recording tray. Actual quantity may be differentdepending on your machine.
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Note: If the number of blank discs you inserted doesn’t match 
the number of discs detected on the screen, please give 10-15 
seconds for the duplicator to recognize all of your blank discs.
e. After 2 or 3 seconds of processing time, the following Copy Progress 
Screen will appear.
Note: It is normal to see the progress indicator stays at 0-10% 
and 100% for approximately 30 seconds for CD duplication 
and up to 1 minute for DVD duplication. That is caused by the 
initializing and finalizing stages.
Once the duplication run is completed, the good copies will be ejected and 
you shall see the following screen:
“PASS 7” indicates that you’ve just made 7 successful copies.
“FAIL 0” indicates that you have no failure in this run.
“7” indicates that you’ve successfully copied 7 copies so far.
Counter SpecifiedNo Counter
“4012MB” indicates the capacity of the Master Disc.
“481MB” indicates the current MB from the Master Disc that has been copied.
“12%” indicates the current progress of the duplication.
“0/21” indicates you have a project size of 21 copies and you have made 0 copies so far.
“H” indicates you are copying from a Hard Drive Image.
“4012MB” indicates the capacity of the Master Disc.
“481MB” indicates the current MB from the Master Disc that has been copied.
“12%” indicates the current progress of the duplication.
“0” indicates that you have made 0 copies so far.
“H” indicates you are copying from a Hard Drive Image.
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