How do I copy a CD with Vista?

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Richard G. Harper said:
If you're referring to copying an entire disc at once, no it does not.
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Mike...what people are saying here is that you need to be more specific. Do
you want to copy a commercially bought Music CD?, A music CD you made? A
data CD you made? Is it protected? Do you want an exact image or just the
files copied? etc

Native Vista will copy CD's in many of these cases. Also most PCs come
bundled with 3rd party disk burning programs. Roxio is very popular and has
additional features. Don't expect any of them to do illegal copies for you.
No one will (or at least shouldn't) help you here.
BobF.
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Mike Tucker said:
Doesn't Vista have a way of copying CD's?
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Bob F. said:
Mike...what people are saying here is that you need to be more specific.
Do you want to copy a commercially bought Music CD?, A music CD you made?
A data CD you made? Is it protected? Do you want an exact image or just
the files copied? etc

Native Vista will copy CD's in many of these cases. Also most PCs come
bundled with 3rd party disk burning programs. Roxio is very popular and
has additional features. Don't expect any of them to do illegal copies
for you. No one will (or at least shouldn't) help you here.
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Tell me something: if someone asked you what the best way is to sharpen a
knife, would you tell them how illegal it is to cut someone's throat?

I did mean: how to copy an entire CD, a safety copy of my Vista backup CD.

Regards.
 
Mike said:
Tell me something: if someone asked you what the best way is to sharpen
a knife, would you tell them how illegal it is to cut someone's throat?
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No, but we would need to know what kind of knife it was, what it's
intended use is, and what tools you have on hand before being able to
give a truly useful and pertinent answer.

I did mean: how to copy an entire CD, a safety copy of my Vista backup CD.
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This is a start. Now we know that you don't want to copy a CD, after
all, because the Vista installation medium is a DVD. I'm sure that
you'll need to use a 3rd party application to make a usable backup copy.
There are free solutions available, such as CDBurnerXP (which works
just fine on Vista, despite the name), from http://cdburnerxp.se/download.

And, unless you've at least one DVD-ROM and one DVD/RW drive, you can't
make a direct copy, anyway. You'll need to first create an ISO file on
your hard drive, and then burn a new DVD from that ISO file.


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Bruce Chambers said:
No, but we would need to know what kind of knife it was, what it's
intended use is, and what tools you have on hand before being able to give
a truly useful and pertinent answer.




This is a start. Now we know that you don't want to copy a CD, after all,
because the Vista installation medium is a DVD. I'm sure that you'll need
to use a 3rd party application to make a usable backup copy. There are
free solutions available, such as CDBurnerXP (which works just fine on
Vista, despite the name), from http://cdburnerxp.se/download.

And, unless you've at least one DVD-ROM and one DVD/RW drive, you can't
make a direct copy, anyway. You'll need to first create an ISO file on
your hard drive, and then burn a new DVD from that ISO file.
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Now I'm confused. I did a Vista backup through Vista's own procedure, and
the system asked me to insert a CD (not a DVD). I did so. Something was
burned to it. And this was the thing I wanted to back up. (Just as I used to
do with floppies back when God was a boy.)

Regards.
 
To repeat - there is no tool in Vista that can copy an entire disc - not a
CD, not a DVD, not one that you have burned, not a backup disc, not one that
you have bought. There is no way to make a copy of an entire disc in Vista.
You need a third party program to do that.
 
You need 3rd party software to burn complete copies of disks.
I used to use Nero 6.6 in XP. Have not tried in vista, as I Ihate the later
Nero versions..
 
Now I'm confused. I did a Vista backup through Vista's own
procedure, and the system asked me to insert a CD (not a DVD). I
did so. Something was burned to it. And this was the thing I
wanted to back up.
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So why not go through that same procedure again?
 
Mike said:
Now I'm confused. I did a Vista backup through Vista's own procedure,
and the system asked me to insert a CD (not a DVD). I did so. Something
was burned to it. And this was the thing I wanted to back up. (Just as I
used to do with floppies back when God was a boy.)

Regards.
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Oh, I see. I misunderstood and thought you wanted to make a backup
copy of the Vista installation disk.

I'm not sure, though, why you'd want two copies of the same data backup
CD. As time goes by the data on the disk will be increasingly useless
to you, as you change files, add new ones, delete items no longer
useful, etc. Be that as it may, there is no native Vista tool to make
copies of an entire CD; you'll still need to use a 3rd party solution to
copy that copy.

And -- most importantly -- don't forget to create a new backup every so
often (weekly or monthly,at least) so you'll always have a reasonably
current backup, should something go wrong.


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Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot
 
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