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I have an AmigaOne X5000. I also have a special X5000 AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition CD with has Update 1. The CD works fine. So far. CD's don't last forever. They can get damaged. I've been trying to make a backup of the CD on a USB stick. A straight copy doesn't work. There is some kind of copy protection. I wonder if there are any Amiga gurus out there who know of a way to copy the CD that works.
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Re: Install CD backup / copy Posted on 6-Jul-2026 19:06:47
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This is related to my previous question. Is it possible to make a whole drive and / or partition read only? In other words, can you fool the operating system into thinking that a hard drive is a CD-ROM drive?
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Re: Install CD backup / copy Posted on 7-Jul-2026 8:21:52
thinkchip wrote: I've been trying to make a backup of the CD on a USB stick. A straight copy doesn't work. There is some kind of copy protection. I wonder if there are any Amiga gurus out there who know of a way to copy the CD that works.
Make an ISO image of the CD and mount it when needed (or burn it to another disc). I do all CD handling like this, and haven't touched to any real discs in ages.
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thinkchip wrote: This is related to my previous question. Is it possible to make a whole drive and / or partition read only?
There's the Lock command which might be handy if you have the HD connected all the time, just add it in the s:user-startup.
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