What discs can be copied?

The Copy Disc project will alert you if a disc cannot be copied.

The Copy Disc project can be used to copy almost any unencrypted disc. Follow these guidelines for best results:

Make sure the disc speed and disc format is compatible with your recorder drive.
If you plan to play your disc in a set-top player, make sure the disc format and speed are compatible with the player.

The tables below provide more detail for advanced users.

CD disc type	Description
Data CD-ROM	Data Mode 1, Disc-at-Once. (The format of most commercial CD-ROMs for data or software distribution.)
Kodak Photo CD	Data Multisession. Mode 2 XA, mixed form. Track-at-Once. (The format used by Kodak photo finishers.)
Data Mode 1 Multisession, closed	Data Multisession. Mode 1, with last session not appendable. Track-at-Once. It can contain one or more sessions, each containing Mode 1 data tracks.
Data Mode 1 Multisession, open	Same as above, but the last session is appendable.
Data Mode 2 Multisession, closed	Data Multisession. Mode 2, with last session not appendable. Track-at-Once. It can contain one or more sessions, each containing Mode 2 data tracks.
Data Mode 2 Multisession, Open	Same as above, but the last session is appendable.
Data Mode 2 Disc-at-Once	Like a standard stamped CD-ROM, but mastered as Mode 2. It is not very common.
Classic audio disc	Audio Disc-at-Once Silver, like almost any commercial music disc, or Closed Gold.
Audio disc, not closed	Audio Gold disc not closed (track-at-once or session-at-once).
CD Extra or Enhanced CD	A disc with a first audio session with the music tracks and then a second session with a Data Mode 2 XA track.
Classic Mixed-mode	A data session containing a data track followed by one or more audio tracks. This is the most common type of Mixed-mode. An audio player will not play the data track or, occasionally, will make a loud noise. A computer’s CD-ROM drive will see the disk as a CD-ROM disc.
Mixed-mode Track-at-Once	As above, but Track-at-Once.
Video CD	A standard XA disc with one or more Mode 2 data tracks in a XA session, but with additional logical information. Discs created in Super Video CD format (SVCD) cannot be copied.

DVD disc type	Description
Data DVD	Any mastered data DVD containing UDF, ISO, or Joliet file systems. DVD-R DL discs created using the layer-jump recording technique can be copied.
DLA DVD	Any DVD created by Drive Letter Access (DLA) 3.5 or later.
Drag to Disc DVD	Any DVD created by Drag to Disc 8.2 or later.
DLA DVD	Any DVD created by Drive Letter Access (DLA) 3.5 or later.

BD disc type	Description
Data BD	Any unprotected data BD-R or BD-RE disc. BD-R discs can be copied to BD-R or BD-RE discs. BD-RE discs can be copied to BD-RE and BD-R discs.
Drag to Disc BD	Any BD created by Drag to Disc 8.2 or later.