■Make sure that the target CD/DVD whose copy you want to make in Windows 8/Windows 8.1 is properly inserted in the CD/DVD drive of the computer. (Make sure that you have appropriate rights to create ISO images.) ■Log on to the Windows 8/Windows 8.1 computer using any account. Regardless of the ISO image creating tool you choose to use, the basic concept of preparing an ISO image of any optical media remains the same. You can use any other similar tool as per your choice. Note: UltraISO is used for this demonstration. In this tutorial you will learn how you can create an ISO image of any optical media that you have inserted into the CD/DVD drive. See this video to learn how to copy a CD or DVD to your computer hard disk: The added advantage of creating an ISO image of any existing physical optical media is that if the CD/DVD is bootable, the image that you create using any third-party image creation tool will also become a bootable ISO. You can use any ISO creating tool that you can download from the Internet to create an ISO image of the CD/DVD.

As soon as you will click the Paste option, a folder with the name of the CD/DVD will automatically be created, and all the contents of the optical media will be saved inside the folder.Īlthough the above discussed method is very simple and straightforward when it comes to just copying the contents of the CD/DVD, the correct and sophisticated way of copying the contents to your local hard disk drive is by creating a mirror image of the optical media. Once the contents are copied, you can go to the target location where you want to save the contents, right -click anywhere inside the target folder, and click the Paste option from the context menu. All you need to do is to right-click the CD/DVD icon that is present in the ‘This PC’ window, and then click the Copy option to copy the contents to the clipboard.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1 offers a very straightforward method of copying the contents of any CD or DVD to local hard disk drive.

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