A while back I posted a guide on how to integrate Windows XP Service Pack 3(SP3) in to Windows XP installation source. It was a simple step-by-step guide to achieve a specific task. Now I have decided to bring you a more general and comprehensive guide on how to build your own custom Windows XP installation CD with a number of extremely useful features that you will not find in default Windows XP installation disk. I have spent a lot of time to compile this large guide and hopefully you will find ...

Have you ever faced the situation where you had some valuable data stored on a CD/DVD and later you found that CD is physically damaged(for example scratches) and data cannot be copied back from it. It happened with me a couple of times in the past. But I discovered a useful utility that allowed to recover data from the my damaged CDs. In my case I was not able to completely recover all the data because of the excessive scratches on the CDs. I used the recovery utility Unstoppable Copier for recovery ...

Nero Burning ROM (a part of Nero application suite) is considered to be the de facto standard when it comes to CD/DVD burning, disk image creation and CD/DVD video disk creation. It supports a large amount of features including a CD/DVD compilation wizard that will guide the user through the whole process that may be suitable for the beginners. Despite it’s rich feature set this software is not for free. So if you are looking for viable freeware alternative then luckily you have some options ...