- Newbie Question; How can I make a copy righted CD for backup?
- Posted by Scratch on August 27th, 2004
Hi,
I have Windows 98SE's original CD; however, I've had it and used for a
quite sometime, and there are scratchs... It runs sometimes ok but
sometimes dont. So, I'd like to make a copy of it. Yet, since it's
copy righted that I cant make a copy of it.
Any program that does it? Or, any other solutions?
Thx,
Scratch
- Posted by KnowBody on August 27th, 2004
Scratch wrote:
How does copy right stop copying it?
I believe its legal to make a backup copy for your own use.
(I know a number of people that have.)
Illegal part comes when you give a copy to someone else...
I think even using it on multiple computers is considered
a breach of terms?
- Posted by ICee on August 27th, 2004
Scratch wrote:
Just copy it.
- Posted by xmp on August 27th, 2004
KnowBody wrote:
My Win 98 CDs are not copy protected. I'm assuming that's what he
meant. Just copy iso to iso.
michael
- Posted by Jamco on August 27th, 2004
if your having problems copying it, maybe its not a problem with it being
copyprotected, maybe its a problem with all the scratches on the disk?
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- Posted by el duderino on August 28th, 2004
Virtually all copying progs will do it (Nero, easy CD, Clone CD etc, even (I
think) the windowsXP copier)
Ignore all copyright stuff..if it doesn't work try www.gamecopyworld.com
...not just for games.
As far as I am aware the advice about making a backup for own use is
correct...if not, sod it, you paid enough for it in the first place!
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- Posted by Rôgêr on August 28th, 2004
Scratch wrote:
Scratch, it sounds like scratches are your problem. You can easily copy
a Win98 disk normally. Take your disk to a Blockbuster video store or
similar and ask them about removing the scratches from your disk. If
it's not too heavily damaged it'll come out looking and working just
fine. Cost shouldn't be more than $5.
- Posted by Oxford Systems on August 28th, 2004
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Copyright law does not stop you from burning a legitimate backup copy of
your Windows CD.
If you are thinking of copy protection such as is used with games and some
audio CD's, MS Windows CD's don't have it.
Burn away.
- Posted by Dodo on August 28th, 2004
I never use original CDs. I use Nero to copy an ISO CD image to my hard
drive and then I can burn any number of copies from the ISO image.
- Posted by Adam on August 29th, 2004
Dodo
Sorry for my ignorance but what is an ISO CD image?
Adam
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- Posted by Dodo on August 29th, 2004
An ISO image is an exact copy of a CD contained within a file. The file has
an ISO extension, like filename.iso. ISO images are used to save and create
one-to-one copies of CDs.
