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self booting a CD

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Is it possible or leagal to extract an autorun.exe and autorun inf from a CD or Windows, copy it to another folder and modify the autorun inf file to build an autorun.exe for your own CD's?

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Your question and the title are two different issues, yes you can use an autorun type applet to create a CD that "starts" when you insert it into the drive when the OS is running.
You can get Autorun at various locations.
http://www.dll-c.com/autorun.exe
I am not sure the legality of that one but I know Shellexec which performs the same function is free software. http://www.naughter.com/shelexec.html

As far as booting the CD, such as creating a CD you could load an OS from that process requires more than autorun.

One place for information on creating bootable CDs and Autorun CDs is at;
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/

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