Hi everyone, I got a question on how to create a back up cd of my Windows XP Pro CD. I have small kids that love metalic colored things, such as CDs and love to scratch them etc. Anyone who has three kids know what I mean ;). So I am planning to hide the original cds in a safe place and make backup cd of from the original so they can be thrown around etc. I have nero 5.5.5.6 and I tried to copy the original cd to my hardrive and then burn into a CDr. As luck would have it, for some reason nero changes the file names. For example like a wav file called utopia~.wav thats on the orginal cd burns it on the new one as utopia_.wav . It does with eith other files names that has a ~1 on them and interpets them differntly and put a underscore on them _ . As a result when I try to test the newly burn cd for reliablity during a mock installation of xp it gives me errors that it cannot find those file. It also cant find cyclad-z.inf and cyclom-y.inf . Why, I don't know. I have not figured that out yet since these files dont have a ~1 type of file name on the original xp cd. But for some reason they are not being copied I guess since during installation using the backup cd it does not copy the file for some reason. I know some of my friends ask why not do cd to cd copy, but my machine is not fast enough to handle that :(. Can anyone help? Any tips are greatly appreciated... Thanks again... Wonderful forum... Ron Thomas

Hi. This site has really good info. (It actually describes how to create a bootable XP CD with Service Pack 1 integrated!) I'm not sure about the problems you are having, but the site I linked to says "make sure you have at least version 5.5.9.0" Maybe the older version doesn't work right with XP. Check Nero's website for updates/patches. Hope this helps

Hi! Thanks, I am heading to that site as I write.. :) Anyone else has any ideas... I sure welcome them.. Ron

Hi Ron, I use CloneCD to make exactly copies, it works fine. Had no problems so far. Cheers de Peter

Make sure when creating that backup of the XP CD that it has the exact same CD name as the original. If you need to use it, the CD backup name must be a Microsoft recognizable one.

Hey, CyberSlug, thanks for that site. You can't even begin to guess how much I needed that link. This is going to save me tons of time! :)