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Creating a WinPE CD

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by uofm

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A colleague gave me a copy of WinPE. I'm looking to make addition copies for my staff. However, when simpley trying to duplicate the CD (either with OSX or XP), its telling me that there isn't enough room (since its actually about 2GB compressed onto the CD). Anyone know how to duplicate this CD easily?

Thanks.

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by bfilmfan

You go to the store.

You pick up a copy.

You give the clerk your cash or credit card.

They give you a reciept.

This is how you duplicate commercial software.

by jdmercha

Look for Bart's PE. It is quite similar and allows you to build a PE based on your own licensed copy of XP. It is free.

by oz_media

If your employer it\s too cheap to by software, find a new job. Did you rip all yor XP Licences too? Why when there is open source?
You can't rip a disk and yet you are looking to install PE to XP machines, I am sure there is some warped value you see in it though.

You should start looking to legal options instead of ripping garbage to begin with.

As a contributing peer that helps others here quite often, anyone would see it fit to return the favour.

As someone who can't even complete a website profile and just wants help for nothing, illegal help at that, I say "on your bike, mate". Piss off and find somewhere else to hack.
Surely if you had any idea what you were doing, you would also know that you have a host of places other than this to get such answers.

by jdmercha

Take a look at his ID. UofM, University of Minnesota perhaps? In which case his employer is too cheap to buy software. In addition to that, copywrite laws are different in acadamia. For the most part they apply just like everywhere else, but there are circumstances where they do not.

by apotheon

If it's being duplicated for "staff", academic exemptions don't apply. There certainly is no such thing as permission to duplicate the CDs, anyway, regardless of who's using it. Multiple installs are warranted under certain limited circumstances. That's about as good as it gets.

by oz_media

I did note his alias and also thought he may be either a student or worse, working at the college.

Yet again, it could be anything unrelated. As the person has decided to hide all information, disallow peer contact and just sign up to post a question I wouldn't think he would name a univerity he attends or works at.

As for Academic licences, they usually don't allow people to copy CD's fromwhat I remember. You generally either get a free download or need to order them at a discounted student rate.

by techonium

You need to use software that can create a true RAW image of the CD, such as Blindwrite, CloneCD, etc.

by charliespencer

Anybody who would post his phone number on the web in the clear is either asking for trouble or trying to cause it. On the off chance he really does what he's offering, it's illegal.

by zlitocook

And every thing that is on the CD is freeware or shareware then feel, free to give it to as many people as you want. Make sure the CD/DVD is bootable. If it is not you will have to go in to the BIOS and set the first bootable device to be CD. And see if it boots to the CD. If it does then down load clone CD or clone DVD and copy them to how ever many CD/DVD you need.

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