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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - OT-Burning a copy of Windows-anyone done it?

Posted: 9/2/2001 8:47:32 PM EDT

Can you make a copy of Windows 98 or 2000 on a cd burner? I just put one in my machine and the first thing I tried was Windows 98 on a CDR, but it failed to complete the disc. Is there something on the Windows CD that would prevent someone from making a copy of it?

Posted: 9/2/2001 8:55:03 PM EDT

[#1]

I have done it with 2000 and didn't have any problems. My school gave me a 120 day trial copy of Windows 2000 Advanced Server, part of the tuition, and last week I found a crack/mod for it that makes it unlimited time!! [:D][:D]

After you copied it did you check to see if the read attributes changed?? Or maybe there are some "hidden" files that you are missing??

sgtar15

Posted: 9/2/2001 9:01:02 PM EDT

[#2]

The name or title of the CD has to be the same.

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Posted: 9/2/2001 9:03:16 PM EDT

[#3]

After I copied it I was unable to open it at all. I wanted to check what was on it but no go. I will try again tomorrow. Thanks a lot.

Posted: 9/2/2001 9:07:13 PM EDT

[#4]

I am not a big fan of Microsoft and hesitate to offer advice that increases its installed base but you can use a program called CloneCD to burn just about any disk even if it has some form of copy protection on it. You can also create an .iso file of your original disk from within Linux or Unix that can then be burned to form a bootable disk.

Posted: 9/2/2001 9:09:40 PM EDT

[#5]

I've burned Windows 98 and ME.
Both worked.

Posted: 9/2/2001 10:18:51 PM EDT

[#6]

I've copied 98SE.You might try copying the windows to a file and then burning it from there.I have done this on a couple of CDs that wouldnt copy direct.

Posted: 9/2/2001 10:26:10 PM EDT

[#7]

I have burned...errr [:\] ... I mean I heard you can successfully burn copies of 98, 98SE, 2000Pro, 2000server, 2000 advanced server, NT4, NT4 Enterprise edition, and ME ( not that ME is worth wasting a CD over ) [}:D]

Actually the more I think about it... The versions of 2000 were ISO images... What is done is a program rips an exact image of a CD and saves it to a .bin (binary) file, and creates another small file called a cue file, the combo of these files are used with a burner software called fireburner... I am not sure what is used to rip these images though...

Posted: 9/2/2001 11:39:19 PM EDT

[#8]

I hope the ATF raids all of your houses for "affecting interstate commerce"!!!!

Posted: 9/3/2001 1:06:46 AM EDT

[#9]

First, check the size of the disk. Many of MS's disc images are over 650MB, requiring that you buy 700MB (80 minute) CD-Rs.

Second, make sure you either copy from an image (like an ISO image) or do a "disk at once" copy.

-Troy

Posted: 9/5/2001 6:15:59 AM EDT

[#10]

Thanks a lot for your help, and a big thank you to the member that sent me the programs that made it possible for me to make the copies that I needed. Mission accomplished!

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