Greetings--
While I have had 'bad results' using the built-in Windows CD burning capability (mostly with CDR-W disks), it does work. If you set your source disk and your destination disk as "the same drive", barring any in-place "copy blockers" (on the source CD), or other "undesirables" running, you should receive a prompt to 'insert the destination disk <in the [designated device]>, at which point you would swap the 'source disk' for the 'destination disk', and vice versa, as the prompts direct. As I implied, this doesn't work perfectly, every time, but it is functional. As other posters have indicated, Nero, Roxio, and other "third party" solutions are usually preferable for this sort of task. Just, in all cases, make sure that you have some sort of record of the path(s)--source and destination. There may be some work to do with respect to access and permissions after restoring the files, but, [Diane, ... maybe others] I'm sure you already know that.
HTH.,
Sincerely,
Paul A. Shippert
P.S. As to "other undesirables" running in the background while you're trying to copy a CD, please see the www.blackviper.com [?] site that other Listers have referred to) for services that can be turned off for your purposes.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Green" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 11:16:01 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Copying a CD
Diane,
Your burner should have come with software to copy a CD. Usually Nero. Or
you can go to the Nero.com site and download a free copy if still available.
This one is a free 15 day trial version:
http://www.nero.com/enu/downloads-backitup-and-burn-trial.php
John Green
PO Box 1301
Los Alamitos, CA 90720-1301
Subject: Copying a CD
*I have a restore disk that came with my computer and want to make a backup.
How do you copy an entire CD to another CD with one CD drive, which is my
burner.
I'm not running any burning software except Windows Explorer, iTunes and
Windows Media Player.
ASUS computer running Win7 64 bit.
Thanks.
Diane Kroeckel
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