Hi jetmech757
Just for the record most Vendor's CD's are protected so they cannot be copied directly too the hard drive. The main reason for this is, that you the user cannot update a CD when you need to add revisions etc, that are sent out from the manufacturer, like you can with revisions to manuals. So equipment manufacturers and vendors to the aviation world find it easier to update the CD, and ship out a new CD complete with revision etc, then you just bin the old one.
That's how we do it .......