Astroburn is disc burning software developed for instant burning, copying, erasing of all types of optical media: CD, DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray. The program is small, fast, reliable, user-friendly and has intuitive graphical user interface. Astroburn is easy to learn and to use.

Your OS should be Windows:

• 2000
• XP
• 2003 Server
• Vista
• Windows 7

If you need information regarding Astroburn installation, upgrade and uninstallation as well as creating, burning images and projects, copying and erasing discs, please, visit Astroburn Help web site. You can also obtain information about user interface there.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 users:
1. Press on “Start” button and select "Control Panel";
2. Select “Programs and Features” item;
3. Select “Astroburn” group;
4. Push on “Uninstall/Change” button;
5. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the uninstallation process.

or

Windows 2000 and Windows XP users:
1. Press on “Start” and select "Control Panel";
2. Select “Add or Remove Programs” item;
3. Select “Astroburn” group;
4. Push on “Change/Remove” button;
5. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the uninstallation process.

If both Astroburn and DT Lite are installed on your PC then you can emulate CDs/DVDs, work with most image formats using DT Lite and burn images right away with Astroburn (from Mount’n’Drive Manager) or just test an image before burning it to see if it was created correctly.

File system is a method for storing and organizing files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them. File systems may use a data storage device such as a CD-ROM or other optical media and involve maintaining the physical location of the files. Astroburn supports the following file systems:

• ISO 9660 (8+3 names)
  File system for CD-ROM media. It aims at supporting different computer operating systems such as Unix, Linux (CDFS), Windows and Mac OS, so that data may be exchanged. File names are limited to 8 characters with a 3-character extension, using upper case letters, numbers and underscore only. The maximum depth of directories is eight.
  For more info please visit Wikipedia.
• ISO 9660 + Joliet
  An extension to ISO 9660, the Joliet format, adds support for longer file names and non-ASCII character sets.
  Most current PC operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD, are able to read Joliet-formatted media, thus allowing exchange of files between those operating systems even if non-Roman characters are involved (such as Arabic, Japanese or Cyrillic), which is formerly not possible with plain ISO 9660-formatted media.
  For more info please visit Wikipedia.
• Data: UDF
  DVDs may also use the ISO 9660 file system. However, the UDF file system is more appropriate on DVDs as it has better support for the larger media and is better suited for modern operating system needs.
  For more info please visit Wikipedia.
• Audio CD
  File system for audio CDs that contains the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats. The basic specifications state that
  • Max playing time is 74 minutes (including pauses);
  • Min duration for a track is 4 seconds;
  • Max number of tracks is 99;
  • Max number of index points (subdivisions of a track) is 99 with no max time limit.
  For more info please visit Wikipedia.

While working with the project, you can save it either to the project file (.brn) or to the image file (.mdx, .mds/.mdf, .iso).
Saving current project to the project file is usually used, if the project has not been finished yet and you plan to continue working with it.
If you have already finished the project, you can save it to the desired image format and burn to a disc afterwards. Note that Astroburn has the Import from Image option. This option also allows to modify the ready image file.

Yes, you can if selected file system is ISO 9660 (8+3 names) or ISO 9660 + Joliet. Create your project and then select Actions menu → Burn project and activate Boot image option.

If you have burned a disc but not finalized it then you could add some data and burn it again. The Pick up feature is for you to see the current (already burned) disc directories.

Sometimes the maximum speed is not the best choice for your physical discs to be read or written (compact disc may have some little corruptions, physical drive specifications may not provide the best drive work on max speed, etc.). That’s why Astroburn helps you to create images and burn discs safely by slowing down the Read/Erase speed.