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Re: I know I've seen a piece of software that does this

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From: Tony Toews
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:00
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"Graham Byars" <Gbyars@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>I would like to create a partition on my hard drive and copy a complete
>CD-ROM onto that partition, convince my computer that the partition is a
>CD-ROM, then install and run the software from there WITHOUT HAVING THE
>ORIGINAL CD IN THE DRIVE.

Partition Magic?   Does the software actually check to ensure that the
CD Rom is a genuine CD Rom?

Tony
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From: ttoews@telusplanet.net (Tony Toews)
Subject: Re: I know I've seen a piece of software that does this
Date: 1999/03/17
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