Thanks mate, that's exactly what I wanted I can see that all of the folders dates are 8/4/2004 12:00 pm GMT. By official I meant, as tim stated, a hologram CD (one released and pressed by Microsoft). Also, what I know, as I stated before, setting modified dates is functionally unnecessary (i.e. cosmetic) for the intended purpose of the master SP2 CD that I want to reconstruct from an master SP0 CD. I'm going to assume that an official VLK SP2 CD (if it exists) has the same structure & dates. I wonder why this information about original CDs is hard to come by. Is there a free website with a repository of original CD directory listings? I've tried googling w/o luck. Thanks to all that responded with your input