help- can't burn files while in safe mode . . . need to reinstall

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From: jason (ronjayates5_at_aol.com)
Date: 05/23/04 

Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 15:37:09 -0700

i need to back up some data before i do a reinstall but i
have to go into safe mode to get to the data. it's a
long story but the short version is my friend let his
pirated copy of xp expire its activation without telling
me! so, needless to say he's bought a legal copy but we
need to retain his financial data. I can't seem to get
his cd-rw to write his data to cd though! is this a safe
mode thing? it was working fine before (at least that's
what he told me).

is there anything else i can do to temporarily get around
activation so I can backup 400 mbs - 2 gb of data before
i do a clean instal?

thanks
jason

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