Needed to boot windows to copy audio CD

Rich Braun richb-RBmg6HWzfGThzJAekONQAQ at public.gmane.org
Sun Oct 12 16:14:58 EDT 2008


Martin Owens <doctormo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> They may not be file systems, but when has that ever stopped dd? Agreed
> the disk output won't be an iso file. But it will be a whole load of
> copied bytes.

The 'dd' program can be stopped by the deliberate inclusion of bad sectors,
i.e. invalid hardware checksums.  That's the basis of some copy-protection
schemes, I have no idea if that's what Laura's up against here.

-rich






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