How to make a copy of my Windows CD (for legal reasons)

[purple_minion]

I had an old dying cd drive that would burn but not verify. It was so old I had to take it apart and remove the face plate just to eject the tray, that's how much use it got. Now some of these are linux cd's which upon booting have an option to check cd for defects, and they always passed. It could also read cd's just fine, and apparently burn them correctly as well, just not verify them afterwards. Strange is it not. Most likely some kind of special command that the drive couldn't complete successfully.

 

[MSgherzi]

Everything works except one thing. When Windows XP setup was copying files it stops at 53% and cannot find "tourW.exe" and I'm having issues getting the Windows activation screen to appear. I tried repairing but it gave me the same error so I risked putting in the genuine CD and it found it and everything. Maybe it didn't copy correctly? I made an ISO out of the genuine XP CD when it was in my drive (didn't drag the files to my computer) and burnt that ISO to a blank CD. Did I do anything wrong here?

 

[abe]

Everything works except one thing. When Windows XP setup was copying files it stops at 53% and cannot find "tourW.exe" and I'm having issues getting the Windows activation screen to appear. I tried repairing but it gave me the same error so I risked putting in the genuine CD and it found it and everything. Maybe it didn't copy correctly? I made an ISO out of the genuine XP CD when it was in my drive (didn't drag the files to my computer) and burnt that ISO to a blank CD. Did I do anything wrong here?

make sure to burn at slower speed and no fingerprints on cd

 

[MSgherzi]

make sure to burn at slower speed and no fingerprints on cd

I'll re-try it later at the slowest speed and see if it works. I'm still having activation problems and now msconfig doesn't even work. I posted a thread on this at "General Computer Help."