How do You Burn Backups of a Windows XP Installation Disk?

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I have a Windows XP Home Edition installation disk. I want to burn a backup copy for myself. Anyone have experience doing this and can give advice? (Please no lectures on how it is illegal to copy a Windows installation for yourself. It is 100% legal to copy a Windows installation disk for your own personal backup copy.)
 
Just coming up with ideas, could you use an .iso program and just duplicate it? I think that Infrarecorder should work.

EDIT- John beat me... but I checked, and in the program I mentioned, there is a "Duplicate disc" function
 
Why are you guys telling him?!
You start thinking, and then you realize that there may be more "backup copies" later...


;)
Just as long as it's a "backup copy", Billy won't sock ya.
 
Thanks for advice everyone. I don't have much experience with DVD burning. I tried the program Gizmo and the slowest speed it would burn at is 36x. I have DVDs that are only rated at 16x speed. Gizmo was useless to me so I erased it.

Infrarecorder was a good program. I burned the Windows.iso image at 8x recording speed. It appears I now have a Windows XP backup installation disk. The only way I will really know if the disk works is to try out an installation.
 
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The 36x burning speed that you think is because of Gizmo is the limit of your burner. Gizmo is a nice program, you can burn CDs/DVDs, mount .iso images, make .iso images, create RAM drives, make encrypted virtual disks, and a whole lot more. You didn't explore it enough. :angry:
 
Cool, I will have to download Gizmo and explore it some more. But if 36x speed is the limit of my burner how come Infrarecorder let me burn it at a 8x speed?
 
Most burning programs will let you burn slower then the drives max. If the program doesnt let you burn at your max it probably doesnt recognize your drive right.
 
StrangleHold said:
Most burning programs will let you burn slower then the drives max. If the program doesnt let you burn at your max it probably doesnt recognize your drive right.
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Yeah, that is what I meant, if that was worded wierdly, which rereading it, it was.
 
Imgburn is my personal favorite but I'm sure the others mentioned would be fine.
 
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bkribbs said:
Is that the fastest that you can burn? But you can burn lower?
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I could burn faster or slower than 8x speed using Infrarecorder. From what I have heard the faster the burn speed is the less reliable the copy is. I see no point in burning slower than 8x speed though. I doubt the copy would be more reliable at a lower speed.
 
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