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| Thread ID: 37000 | 2003-08-25 22:47:00 | How do you back up "copy protected" data CDs? | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 170534 | 2003-08-26 08:28:00 | If it is readable and still working, then it's copyable! It may have simply been copied incorrectly, and that's not hard to do! I've downloaded Alcohol 120% today... So far it looks alright, but CloneCD is a lot simpler. Its a quick download Billy, you should be sweet :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 170535 | 2003-08-26 08:57:00 | The fix was a surface cut and polish BJ, which removed scratches and the original CD now works fine so a copy should be OK too. Are you sure that Microsoft does not copy-protect their program CDs? Cheers Billy 8-{) ?:| |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 170536 | 2003-08-26 09:05:00 | Yup! | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 170537 | 2003-08-26 09:27:00 | I've backed up my XP CD and my 98 and ME CDs just using Nero CD to CD copy. Just stick the master in one drive and the blank in the writer - never come across any copy protection on any of them. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 170538 | 2003-08-26 09:53:00 | Don't you have to make them bootable when you copy them?? Or should that all be copied over inside the image? If so whats all the fuss with bootable cds then, are they only for the pirates that haven't got a legit cd in the first place? ;) |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 170539 | 2003-08-26 11:21:00 | Yes, The "Bootable" part is copied too ;-) | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 170540 | 2003-08-26 11:28:00 | Bugger! So it was a genuine coaster then:( | Billy T (70) | ||
| 170541 | 2003-08-26 11:48:00 | I've got a boxed set of coasters you can have Billy, the best money could buy. Now I buy on special ;) Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 170542 | 2003-08-27 00:48:00 | Actually MS did have a copy protection that made Windows read the incorrect data size on the CD, a 700MB CD saying it has 1.5Gigs put most CD Burning programs off by saying it needed media with more space. They also had protection that stopped the ability of copying the CD onto Hard Drive, although these could have been bugs in their programs and not actual CD Protection as it does sound a bit buggy to me. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 170543 | 2003-08-27 04:11:00 | I use a single Samsung CDRW and it writes to disk then dumps to CD. I guess that's the same as copying to the HDD and writing from there. Bought the Samsung because it has an 8MB cache and with Roxio it is interesting to see how the cache is called upon to supply data from time to time. Doesn't look like it ever needs more than 1MB though. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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