CD Burning help, I'm an idiot.

[BustedLX]

I'm a fool when it comes to all this crap. I got fustrated that I couldn't DL a working MOHAA crack and ISO so I bought the game yesterday at Best Buy for $20.00 yay!

So now I'm tring to burn a copy for a friend of mine but I can't make it work. I suck I guess.

I'm tring to use BlindWrite 5 and Alcohol 120%. Both programs where refered to me by other people. Now my CD-Rom is a Samsung SC-148A and my burner is a Sony CRX225E.

Well I try to copy from one to the other and it takes forever and I just abort it and when I use Alcohol 120% it starts dispalying that there are allot of errors in reading.

Is this because the disk is somehow protected? Anyone know how I can make a working copy of the original?

My machine is a Dell PowerEdge 400SC with a P4 2.26ghz running 512 megs of Crucial PC3200. With the above CD devices of course .

Thanks for the help... again.

[cp[mike]]

try to find a new copy of CloneCD... if u need help finding a reg key i can help u out there... but clonecd has worked well for me. when copying a copy protected game tho, it will often take an hour or 2... but make sure u save the ISO so u dont need to wait again. its cuz alot of commercial cd copier apps will stop the copy at the first read error- so they put alot, and thats a method of copy protection. if u wait it thru, it will often work (not 100% of the time tho).

i believe alcohol 120% is similar to clonecd... u just gotta wait for it to finish.

[BustedLX]

Originally posted by cpmike
try to find a new copy of CloneCD... if u need help finding a reg key i can help u out there... but clonecd has worked well for me. when copying a copy protected game tho, it will often take an hour or 2... but make sure u save the ISO so u dont need to wait again. its cuz alot of commercial cd copier apps will stop the copy at the first read error- so they put alot, and thats a method of copy protection. if u wait it thru, it will often work (not 100% of the time tho).

i believe alcohol 120% is similar to clonecd... u just gotta wait for it to finish.

Ohhhh, Do you think it will reproduce a playable copy? I'd hate to leave this thing burning only to not have it work.

It also has allot of options for you to select and it gets confusing.

[cp[mike]]

ive always let it finish, and alot of times it worked, but i tried a couple times and it never worked for The Sims. but u might as well try, if u wanna start it before u go to bed or something. it only takes a long time to read, then the normal few minutes to burn.

also itll say like estimated time remainig: 3 hours or something, till it gets half way, then it drops down to 5 mins. cuz it got past the read errors

[deevergote]

CloneCD works.. I've never used Alcohol120% meself, so I can't say there.

I've always just had luck with Nero... Maybe my burner gets past the protection somehow.

There is a backwards way of doing it, but it also worked for me in the past. You can rip the game to an ISO using ISOBuster, and then "burn image' with Nero...

[xplode]

alcohol 120%? rofl... bro.. Nero

[BustedLX]

Well I used CloneCD version 4.0.1.6 that I got off Kazza. I also got a few other newer versions but I said let me try with this one and if it works I'll keep it.

It worked, I was able to play off the burned copy with no problems. Now if I could only find my damn permenant marker to label the CD!

[deevergote]

Originally posted by BustedLX
Now if I could only find my damn permenant marker to label the CD!

Sorry... can't help ya there!