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Thanks John. I appreciate you taking the time to explain the copying to
me. I did select Safedisc as my cd type. That's one thing I read
somewhere. And I tried both on my laptop with just one drive, a cdrw,
and my desktop with a cd-rom and a cd/dvd-r drive, but they both just
sat there for an hour and just said reading at 1%. Maybe I'll try it
again, and leave it go and see what happens. Worth a try.
Thanks again for your help.
RILY
John Smith wrote:
> On 28 Feb 2005 07:01:02 -0800, "RILY" <RilyRily@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I downloaded Alcohol 120% but have never tried to copy a game cd
> >before. I'm trying to make a backup copy of AOE II Conquerors for my
> >son (he tends to get scratches on his more than I do on mine, but
he's
> >only 9), but Alcohol read the cd for 58 minutes and was only 1% into
> >the reading. Is that to be expected? Can AOE II Conquorers be
copied?
> >I've bought three sets of cd's already and really don't want to buy
> >anymore copies if I don't have to. We have three computers in my
house
> >running it, it's our favorite game.
> >
> >Any advice with Alcohol 120% or other backup methods would be
> >appreciated. I'm a newbie to this stuff.
>
> I run AOE 2 Conquereors from a CD image that I made using Alcohol
> 120%, so I can tell you that it can be done. I am in no way an expert
> on this however, so I don't know what factors go into whether it will
> work for you or not - I think there can be problems depending on what
> CD drive you are using to read the CD, for example, but I don't know
> any more helpful specifics.
>
> One thing I always do when making a backup or a CD image to play
from,
> I first go to makeabackup.com and look up the game in their database
> to see what copy protection it uses, and then I make sure that I have
> Alcohol 120% set for that kind of CD (little dropdown menu for
> Safedisc, SecureROM, etc).
>
> I seem to recall that the copy of Conquerors did take a long time to
> make, maybe a couple hours or so. Don't always trust that "percent
> completed" bar - maybe it is percent copied, but won't accurately
tell
> you percent of time it will take - first 1% of copying takes 50% of
> time, or something like that.
>
> Another thing I have found is that after making the CD image, I have
> to uninstall the game from its original installation (assuming that I
> already installed it by the physical CD) and then reinstall from the
> CD image, in order to be able to play from the CD image. Otherwise, I
> have problems with the game not "seeing" the CD image and still
> telling me to put the CD in. Maybe there is something in the registry
> that could be changed to avoid having to reinstall, but I don't know
> what, I just know this works for me. (The reinstall is a one time
> thing, not each time I play.)
>
> I hope this helps you.
>
> John
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