How to create a boot CD from an already burned one?

My computer will not boot up, no matter which way I try.

• So, last night, I was collecting ravager eggs in Hellfire Peninsula with my shaman. A ravager comes at me, and my computer freezes. Fine, I say. I need to get to bed anyway. I wake up in the morning, run into the wall, stumble in and out of the shower, get coffee, and turn on my computer. This is where the pain begins. It goes through POST fine. Everything is fine until it hits the WIndows XP loading screen - black screen with the scrolling bar underneath the XP logo. It loads for a few seconds and then freezes. Hard drive stops spinning, bar stops scrolling, all life ceases. Fine, I say. I'll use my trusty Windows XP Pro CD. I pop that sucker in, start up the computer, boot from CD... nothing. Not a damned thing. Windows Setup starts loading all of its files, and when it's done, it says, 'Setup is now starting Windows....' the end. That's it. It freezes. The hard drive stops spinning. Now I'm mad. I bust out my Acer backup DVDs I burned when I first got the damnable machine, pop those in, boot from disc, it loads the files and then freezes and everything stops spinning and making sounds. A breeze blows through my room, carrying these words along to my ear: 'All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.' I've got this feeling my hard drive kicked the can. Look, matey, I know a dead hard drive when I hear one, and I think I'm hearing one right now. It’s not pinin’, it’s passed on! This hard drive is, perhaps, no more! It has ceased to be! It’s expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late hard drive. It’s a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace! It’s rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-hard drive! ...Or at least I sure hope not. I really don't want all of my files to be lost like tears in rain. HELP ME PLZ KTHNX

• Answer:

  If you just need to get the data from it, try slaving it to another PC. I was able to retrieve files this way.