{"id":774,"date":"2025-04-08T14:03:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mac84.net\/web\/?p=774"},"modified":"2026-03-15T18:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:24:15","slug":"how-to-backup-vintage-apple-macintosh-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mac84.net\/web\/2025\/04\/08\/how-to-backup-vintage-apple-macintosh-cds\/","title":{"rendered":"How to backup vintage Apple Macintosh CDs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Believe it or not, the best way I&#8217;ve found to backup Macintosh formatted CDs is using a Windows application. <strong>ImgBurn<\/strong>, a freeware application, does a great job of archiving disc images without messing up any bootable partitions, etc. While this is primarily an issue for bootable discs, it&#8217;s also a concern when trying to archive discs without modern interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I&#8217;ve had success with Toast (formerly by Adaptec\/Roxio) it also sometimes can be tripped up, and since it&#8217;s paid software it often isn&#8217;t something people have in their toolbox. Although ImgBurn has been successfully run (via Wine) under Ubuntu, I haven&#8217;t been able to do the same under my Apple Silicon or Intel-based Mac. So for now I&#8217;m simply using a Windows PC.<br><br><strong>How to use ImgBurn to rip discs:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 1: <\/strong>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/download.imgburn.com\/SetupImgBurn_2.5.8.0.exe\">ImgBurn Install application<\/a>. Once installed, open the ImgBurn program.<br><br><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> The ImgBurn program opens with a selection of options. Choose the <strong>\u201cCreate image file from disc\u201d <\/strong>(2nd option in the 1st column)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"370\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXclfekLQrYDedY1QxB1vvbSLH5ww9lcc8spb79E8K5HpvQpULxH2SgB3VN2YThPweEVPTBg8vtSetDGpu1VG0bXnBmT-dehS4gEWYCHuALT7cPwv47wKx9MDHVBgbcgPl9GpKIgKFYb58WPG9nVcnv4UT9X?key=1uJvVnZMtW2vxyTYCt8Jkq7l\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 3: <\/strong>Choose the source CD\/DVD drive the disc is in <em>(highlighted as 1 below)<\/em>.  Next, select the folder where you want to save the disc images to <em>(highlighted as 2 below)<\/em> and <strong>give a name<\/strong> to the image you&#8217;ll save. Then click the large button <em>(highlighted as 3 below)<\/em> to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXfZ8T_VfEHEebpE9c0FHMS8Do5uuWAOlLboCUkfFoJRM2lkmJXh_R_xnDRNw5tFtUCT8l3oixyC7wqScO6p1RTbL5X1el5pZyQYToSJ-86pctNhZVjM-bt0wDSl7pCOVBgdS99BcaRyIIMR59KWk-RwCnd1?key=1uJvVnZMtW2vxyTYCt8Jkq7l\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 4:<\/strong> When done a chime will play to inform you the read has completed. Then you can repeat the process and rip more discs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 5:<\/strong> Be sure to LOCK the disc image before opening. If you&#8217;re on a Mac, perform a Get Info command and select the &#8220;Locked&#8221; checkbox. This will prevent the MacOS from writing invisible files or modifying the contents of the disc image. If you don&#8217;t lock a disc image, it&#8217;s easy for modern versions of the MacOS to destroy bootable data on the disc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"433\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/mac84.net\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mac84.net\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1.png 433w, https:\/\/mac84.net\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-300x289.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, the best way I&#8217;ve found to backup Macintosh formatted CDs is using a Windows application. ImgBurn, a freeware application, does a great job of archiving disc images without messing up any bootable partitions, etc. While this is primarily an issue for bootable discs, it&#8217;s also a concern when trying to archive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mac84.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mac84.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mac84.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mac84.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mac84.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mac84.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/mac84.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mac84.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mac84.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mac84.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}