Yes it can rip to ISO, etc. It's also dual-layer compatible (if that's required) for both DVD (8.5GB) and BD-R (50GB). I don't think it's open source but it's lightweight & I've always found it reliable.

I used CDburnerXP for a while too, so that's another vote from me. It's perfectly serviceable.

If you need to rip Audio CDs, then Exact Audio Copy (EAC) is what you want. It is excellent.
https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Does what you need and very lightweight.

Used extensively in my past with no problems.

https://www.imgburn.com/

Make sure you check for official link.

Absolutely not open source. Don't really know what you expected from this requirement to be honest.

not a requirement. just a preference where possible.

As to imgburn ive had quite a few issues with it in the past (though this was some years back). Is it still getting updated?

Last changelog I see is 2013.

I have been using it successfully on win7 without problems.

Wine is also a possibility for linux.

If you are interested or wish to rule it out due to previous issues, just try it.

Don't expect it to deal with any protections though.

why the hell do people keep bringing this up?


Edit: oh, is it in ref to post #3? Thats MUSIC demos - as in band demos!

This really makes me wonder what you actually did, you mean to say the windows boot entry (on your motherboard) was still there? Perhaps you formatted the efi partition. Hmm... I know there's a bug introduced in Windows 10 that stores the MFT in memory so if you hibernate and boot into a secondary OS, changes to the MFT aren't kept. This only matters if you mount an NTFS drive though. Still, usually is pretty easy to fix a botched install like that, so rather curious what went wrong. Saying it didn't recognize the partition type seems poorly worded, clearly the filesystem was still working if you got data off it, though installing windows on top of windows might cause problems did you try deleting the windows directory?

Yes, everything from windows was there and 100% intact.

Nope

Hibernation was one of the first things I turned off and has been checked to be off after every update I have allowed.

Unfortunately, something clearly WASN'T intact, the question is what wasn't. Would have been interesting to fiddle with the system, have a record of what you did. I screw around quite a bit with my system and like figuring these problems out... of course it's much easier when you have access to the actual hardware.

How about you stay on topic? I really cannot be arsed to talk about that facet of this any more than I have.

Gee, I haven't thought about burning CDs since uuuuh, about the time Nero Burning Rom was obsoleted.

Have a look see here.

If you have it installed Windows Media Player can rip and convert CDs to MP3 and WMA, if oyu haven't is freely downloadable.

Another vote for CDBurnerXP. Nice, slim program that works fine for me since XP-days.

Thanks everybody!

Ive marked Randalators post as the answer as Ashampoo fufilled most of my burning / ripping needs, but I have also downloaded a portable version of CDBurnerXP and will be making use of that as well.

If a blue / mod sees this then please lock the thread to prevent it becoming a spam-magnet in the future. Cheers!