copying pc game from disc to either hard drive, usb, or burning it to a new disc

[Superduurp]

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Hey i have some old lotr battle of middle earth games, and i've had them for several years, still play them from time to time. Now they've basicly gotten really rare and are hard to come by, and my discs are getting very fragile. so i want a way to copy them to either my hard drive or usb or something. without formatting the originals. how can i do that?

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And do i then have to write in the verification code whenever i install them?

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And can i use the same copy on several computers and then use both computers at the same time (playing with eachtother)

sorry for the bad english, any advice would be very helpful

 

[Paul NZ]

If theyre on cd you cant format them.

Depends if you play it online. I dont think it'll allow you to install it / play it on more than 1 computer

They maybe protected from copying to anything else as well

 

[Superduurp]

If theyre on cd you cant format them.

Depends if you play it online. I dont think it'll allow you to install it / play it on more than 1 computer

They maybe protected from copying to anything else as well

The servers shut down years ago so it would be Lan-play.

 

[theyeti87]

If you are familiar with disc images, you can *barring DRM* create a .iso of the discs you have and run them from virtual drive w/ MagicDisc.

 

[Paul NZ]

Well they may work then thats if you can copy them

 

[Superduurp]

If you are familiar with disc images, you can *barring DRM* create a .iso of the discs you have and run them from virtual drive w/ MagicDisc.

I'm not to familiar with it, but is it possible to do from w10?

 

[burdenbound]

If you are familiar with disc images, you can *barring DRM* create a .iso of the discs you have and run them from virtual drive w/ MagicDisc.

I'm not to familiar with it, but is it possible to do from w10?

Going off what theyeti87 suggested, I have done this very thing with older games that I had on CDs. I personally used an application called powerISO. You can create a virtual copy (.ISO) and then using a virtual drive software it will "mount" this file and treat it as if there was a physical disk in your computer.

powerISO is just one of many applications which let you create and mount .ISO files.

 

[Paul NZ]

Well all you need is something that can create an ISO. Since Win10 can also mount ISO's