When I try to back-up my PC GAMES using A120% or BlindWrite and even CloneCD it takes a really long time. for instance, it (the pc game) was writing the image for 45min and it was only 1% done with A120% so I gave up, it also does this with BW anc CloneCD. I have a pioneer 107d which is a 1 sheep burner and a IDE DVD-ROM OH the game Im trying to back up is "BATTLEFIELD 1942" THANKS TO ALL THAT RESPONDS!
I read this on BlindWrite: Q : The extraction is SOOOO slow ! A : Some CDs contains bad sectors ( in purpose or not ) and the hardware used may do a big differences. There is no rules, but most of times the slow read will occurs on the first beginning part of the media, once this 5% percent of media extracted, the speed should be back to normal .. so patience, or try with different cd / dvd readers or writers to find one who manages the errors with a good speed. Hope this help's Good luck!!
This isnt exactly the thread i wanted to post this in but its recent and goes with the topic so here it goes. Ok so I was wondering why i couldnt seem to backup any of the games I have with the Safedisc 2 protection on them so I read some posts and found out that really what I need is a 2-sheep burner. I saw a post with a list of burners that are 2-sheep but when i went to www.newegg.com to see if I could buy one of these I couldnt find any burners on that list. Could someone please tell me where I can buy a 2-sheep burner and which one it is? Thanks
I have 512k of ram and 120gig of hard drive, but that shouldn't cause it to be slow, I can copy a dvd movie and audio cd's with out a problem and speed process is really fast, but not with pc games.
OK I copied BF1942 in 2hrs 10min and 36sec. to AL120% image making wizard, it was a 750mb disc WOW! but I havn't burned yet, I also burned another game that was 330mb and that took 45min to burn to AL120% image making wizard (also havnt burnd that yet either) but they play on my virtual drive very well. Will burn at a later time. P.S. as the girls say, SIZE MATTERS Regards: Vanessa
It sounds like Battlefield 1942 is Safedisc 2/3. Anyways, if you got a DVD-ROM use that with Alcohol, it took me about 10 minutes to backup my Safedisc 2/3 version of Painkiller.
how many MB is painkiller, anyway's Im not gonna delete the image until I burn, then Ill retry to use my pioneer to see the difference in the speed between both. What drives do you wotk with? Regards to all: Vanessa
My DVD-ROM and writer is a HP DVD Writer 400c. It seems like DVD-ROMs usually read faster and more accurately than CD-ROMs. The Painkiller play disc is around 650MB.
legacy784 most lite on CD burners will do most (not all but most copy protection out there) I personally like to make back ups of all the PC games I purchase because of some bad experiences I had lately.
Manners when you try to copy your pc game do you use clonyxxl to tell you what settings to set clone cd at before you try to read the game to the harddrive ? with pc games you have to set clone cd to skip bad secctors etc its been a wile since i backed any up so cant remember it all plus my cd rom was shit at trying to read games to the harddrive had same problem has you took ages have to use my sons pc he"s got a toshiba cd rom top bullocks at reading disk"s try clonyxxl first to make sure you"ve got clone cd set up correct..
@IAIHMB, I used my dvd-rom to copy this game but still took 2hrs, but it worked. @killalot don't know if I should trust someone with a name like that (just kidding, don't get madd) I don't have clonyxxl is it free? I have more time than money, but will check into it. Regards once again: assenaV
If the game is Safedisc 2/3 it will always take a long time to copy, and in some drives the original disk won't even play. Search for "Painkiller Copy Protection" and you will find some horror stories.
Yes its free not sure were you get it from and the name Killalot my lad made me have it, its of Robot Wars good program ok
Are you from the U.S.A Manners if yes Robot Wars is a tv program same as Battle Bots i think its called that over in a America its where Robots fight it out in a arena ok.............
For SafeDisc protected games it may help to speed things up by enabling "fast error skip" with Alcohol 120% I just did Painkiller using both my Plextor Premium and PX-708A with BlindWrite 5 (my preferred program).
