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[chameau]

After a recent hardware failure (could not determin if it was the hard drive or the motherboard? but system was crashing into a memory dump and then re-starting), I purchased a new computer and cloned the C drive onto the new drive. However because of very different hardware, I had to do a 'repair install' of windows. Thats when I discovered that I don't have the original disk? (I do have a legitimate license key). I borrow an install disk of the shop I originally boght the computer from and managed to fix my problem.
As windows xp is no longer available to purchase, I would like to make a PERFECT copy of the disk I borrowed so that in the future if I need to re-install windows, I have a copy.
My question is: can ImgBurn do a completly identical copy of a windows xp pro sp3 disk? (from reading various posts it needs to be a 'raw sector by sector' copy that will include hiden files etc..
Also what medium should it be? CD-r or CD+r?

Thanks

[mmalves]

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=6380

[chameau]

So its as simple as that? Just copy to hard drive, then burn to disk? And I can use the created CD to do (for example) a 'repaire-install' of windows if I screw up my system? No need to extract boot files or anything like that? Great!

Last time I re-installed windows, I had app 150 security updates to add (including IE8) any way to include some or all of those files into the copied CD?

[ianymaty]

You can use http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6438 for all the updates and some more stuff needed anyway

or http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7184 just for QFE updates.

You'll find all you need to do in their descriptions.