[ale] Faking out Windows CD checks?

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph Knapka)]

"Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net> writes:

>   Has anyone found a good work around for a scenario like this where the
> physical CD's are required?  Yeah, this could possibly provide a pain
> as this is what the copy protection is supposed to prevent but I'm tired
> of paying $20/$30 to replace CD's because they're so easy to scratch and
> thus ruin.

If you've got a CD burner, you could probably copy the disk and thus
at least have a backup, though it's not as nice as being able to run
them off the network. I have one machine with a plain CD-ROM and a
CD-RW that I use for this. I made a backup of my Win98 install CD this
way and was able to install from it. I'm not sure if other forms
of copy-protection would cause trouble for you, but I'd think if
you can mount the disk you should be able to make a working copy.

Cheers,

-- Joe
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