Uncheck "ignore ownership". It's standard procedure.
Joseph Chamberlain, DDS wrote: > Dear members: > > While in the process of making back-up copies of my applications' CDs and > DVDs I was surprised by a message from Retrospect stating that if I > proceeded to duplicate the disk with the option "Ignore Ownership" checked > important files would not be copied that allowed the duplicate to be > bootable. > > Do any of you have experience with using Retrospect to duplicate CDs and > DVDs ? Is this just a standard warning meant for duplicates of drives that > have the operating system installed and that should be bootable copies ? Or > could this affect my back-up copies ? > > I would prefer to leave the option "Ignore Ownership" checked as it is my > understanding that it would allow the disk to be read by other computers > instead of only mine. Is this right ? Could my back-up copies become > corrupted or unusable if I leave the "Ignore Ownership" box checked ? > > A member of another forum has brought to my attention that while Retrospect > is a good application for backing your system or any drive, it is not > necessarily the most ideal one to use when making copies of CDs or DVDs. > Another issue would be related to copy protection or encryption that may > render the copies of these CDs and/or DVDs non-usable. > > From your own experiences what is the best application available (commercial > or freeware) to copy CDs and DVDs that will allow me to make copies of my > programs in a way that the final copies will be identical to the originals ? > > I would prefer an application that would also allow me to duplicate the > programs to disk images I can keep in my hard drive if I decide to do so. > > Thank you in advance for your help, > > Joseph Chamberlain >
