How can I back up my XP Ms Office software from my pc?

[Big Al]

To install XP Srvc Pack 3, I need to have the CD-rom available for the MS
Office. Neither Packard Bell nor PC World (who sold me the pc) will give me
the cd. I have been told I can back up my XP Ms Office software from my pc

How?

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Packard Bell is still around? Read the setup instructions that came
with your computer. When I bought a Hewlett Packard computer last year,
I was able to make a CD image of the software that came preinstalled on
the hard drive by using a utility included on the hard drive. On my
computer, it took 8 CDs to image everything, and the instructions said
the utility would only work once because the utility automatically
deletes the image data on the hard drive after it writes the image to
CDs.