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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 
inserted is more than what you requested, you will receive a message 
regarding you have inserted more discs than what you need. You can 
continue to copy or you can eject the extras.
Note: Failed discs will not be ejected automatically. You will need to 
manually eject these. 
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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 Master Disc Quality – If your Master Disc condition is not good, lowering 
down the duplication speed will reduce the failure rates greatly.
• Duplication Quality – Overall, the lower the speed, the higher the quality of 
your duplicates. If you have time, it is a good choice to lower down the speed to 
produce the best quality duplicates.
Turn on your duplicator. After it has finished booting up, you will see the following 
display.
1. Navigate to the “Speed Selection” menu.
Press UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
2. Enter the “Speed Selection” menu.
Press ENT button to enter into “Speed Selection” menu. You will see the 
following display:
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DUPLICATOR 1.001. COPY
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DUPLICATOR 1.008. Select Burn Speed
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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 Media.
To select the recording speed types, you need to press UP or DOWN button to 
adjust and press ENT button to submit your selection.
4. Select desired duplication speed.
Once you have submitted the duplication speed type, you will see the following 
display:
Press UP or DOWN button to select the desired speed and then press ENT to 
submit your speed selection.
5. Once your selection has been changed successfully, you shall see the following 
screen for 2 seconds.
Then you will be directed back to the main menu:
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DVD to DVD Speed:6x
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DVD to DVD Speed:Adjusted to 4x
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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 set the “ROM drive” as your 
Master Reading Source.
2. Hard Drive-to-Disc copy – If you want to make copies from your Hard Drive 
Image, you need to select the source as “Hard Drive”.
There are three benefits to copy from Hard Drive:
a. Performance – Duplicating form the Hard Drive will be able to boost the 
DVD duplication speed to 8x or above.
b. Stability – Duplicating from Hard Drive will stabilize the duplication 
process compared to the Disc to Disc duplicating.
c. 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.
3. Disc-to-Disc copy (Copy from 2nd Tray) – This is the case when your Master 
Disc is full of scratches. You would need to use the Writer Tray as your Source 
to make a copy and use the new copy as your new master to make more copies.
When you turn on your duplicator, after it has booted up, you should see the 
following signifying your duplicator is ready.
a. Navigate to Source Selection Menu.
Press UP or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
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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 directed back to the main menu:
Drive 1 Port 2.0DVD-ROM DVD-126COPYTESTPRINTSOURCE
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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 factors that could contribute to the capacity 
difference between the advertised capacity and the actual capacity:
 ▪Hard Drive Manufactures use conversion rate of 1GB = 1 Billion Bytes 
or 1000^3 Bytes. 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 following steps will show you how to load your Master Disc into the installed 
Hard Drive as a partition and copy the stored partition onto blank discs. This process 
is recommended for mass volume production.
To load your Master Disc onto a hard drive partition, please do the following:
1. Make sure the Source is set to the Hard Drive.
It is very important to make sure the Source is set for 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 shall see the following:
Make sure it is located at “Hard Drive”. If not, press the UP or DOWN 
arrow button to search for it.
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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 
DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
d. Press ENT to enter “Load Partition” menu and you will see the following 
display:
The “228GB” indicates the available capacity of your hard drive in term of GB.
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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 
following (unless you have chosen “Auto Generate”, then please skip to 
Step “h”):
f. Name the partition you are about to load into the Hard Drive. To enter 
the name, use the UP or DOWN button to select the character and use 
ESC or ENT button to move the cursor position and once you’ve finished 
move the cursor to OK and press ENT. For example, if I want to name the 
partition of your Master Disc as “FUN”, 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. With the partition name “FUN” displayed press ENT consecutively 
until the cursor is moved to OK.
viii. Press ENT once to submit your name selection.
g. You will see the following confirmation screen:
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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 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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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 or DOWN arrow button to navigate to the following screen.
4. Press ENT to enter the “Rename Partition” menu. You will see the following 
display:
5. Use the UP or DOWN arrow button to find the desired partition. Press ENT to 
submit your selection. You will see the following display:
6. Press ENT once again to confirm. You will see the following display:
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