12-03-2003, 02:06 AM
Two programs exist that can make pretty much all of your CD-ROM issues disapear.
Clone CD is a useful utility, at its heart it is a simple CD copy program. It is easy to use, simple and quite powerful. You can use it to make a 'disk image' of your cd, sure it's 650+ megs but then harddrives have so much space now days.... Currently my Iso directory is close to about 4 gigs or so
Daemon Tools is something I use everyday, not only does it load my disk images but it also has safedisk emulation. I tend to take my computer to lots of different places so not having to carry around a huge book of CD's or fumble out a different one if I want to switch games is a really big boon.
One clear advantage of using Daemon Tools is that for any game that constantly reads the CD it instead pulls the info from the hard drive, much faster and quieter :P
Fragbait, if you download Daemon Tools and use its safedisc emulation then your 'backup-cd' will work. The problem is that most CD copy programs will not copy any CD protection software, the bad bytes and whatnot.
Clone CD is a useful utility, at its heart it is a simple CD copy program. It is easy to use, simple and quite powerful. You can use it to make a 'disk image' of your cd, sure it's 650+ megs but then harddrives have so much space now days.... Currently my Iso directory is close to about 4 gigs or so
Daemon Tools is something I use everyday, not only does it load my disk images but it also has safedisk emulation. I tend to take my computer to lots of different places so not having to carry around a huge book of CD's or fumble out a different one if I want to switch games is a really big boon.
One clear advantage of using Daemon Tools is that for any game that constantly reads the CD it instead pulls the info from the hard drive, much faster and quieter :P
Fragbait, if you download Daemon Tools and use its safedisc emulation then your 'backup-cd' will work. The problem is that most CD copy programs will not copy any CD protection software, the bad bytes and whatnot.