back up ma games

gmoney · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:11 am Post subject: back up ma games

what programs can i use to back up my pc games... ive tried a few... most are safe disc v.2... so like ive tried alcohol games x copy blindewrite... and the all say error in sector # xxx consecutively... is there something im doing wrong... ahhhh im so frustrated.

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JayDubya · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:14 am Post subject:

Hmm, maybe use nero to make an image of them?
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gmoney · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:10 am Post subject:

only option in nero i have is to burn a disc image

racing87stang · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:29 am Post subject:

which games exactly because I know for sure there are many games that actually have back up programs built right in...`
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

There really isn't a good backup.......thank the "pirates"........

Easiest way to do it, is to use CloneCD or Alcohol.....I've had the best luck with CloneCD. Problem is, your backup copies don't have the safeguard software in them. Simple fix.........assuming you own the game.

Go get the no-cd patch for the game.

That's what I do.......I buy the game, burn an image to my hard drive, then use the no-cd patch, while the CD I paid $50 or so for sits quietly and safely in its case.
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gmoney · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 5:02 pm Post subject:

i have clonecd and alcohol and both come back with errors in certain sectors... games like ghost recon need for speed hot persuit 2 etc games of that nature...

n e one kno what causes these "ERROR"s thanks for the help

-=Pyro-Psycho=- · Tweakafile Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 935 Location: TN

Do you get errors burning other cds? Or is it just with games? Also are you getting the error in while burning the game, or after your done and your trying to use the copy?
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gmoney · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:38 am Post subject:

well i've backed up of them ... but the error occurs when i try to create the image.... u know where it says all that stuff bout proc type ram size etc disc size etc... well it pops up with an error... ill post a screenie later..

fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

That's the copy protection. SafeDisk writes "bad sectors" to a CD, more or less.....they're not really bad, but any burning program will see them as such. SafeDisk allows those sectors to be read off of the retail CD, but not off a burned image.

Try looking for the older version of ClonyXXL. The new versions will tell you what protection is used, but won't configure CloneCD to actually burn them.....the older versions do.

Of course, this is assuming you DO really own the games, right?

I have no problems with making copies for backup. You ever seen what a 10 year old can do to a game CD?
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