My 7 year old broke the CD for, Black Hawk Down.I went out and purchaced a new Game and tryed to make a back up copy but while trying to make a copy it a message came up and said "Copy Write Protected". How can I get by this? http://gkwindom@bellsouth.net
Well making a cd copy in Nero or Easy CD Creator wont do the trick....... The game is either protected with SafeDisc2 (which i suspect) or SecureROM4. If you need to burn a SafeDisc2 protected game the major consideration is the drive doing the copy; certain drives have certain characteristics that give them an easier time to perform SafeDisc2 copies than others. Such drives are described as being 2-sheep burners. Drives not quite up to the task (however capable of), are described as 1-sheep burners and heaven forbid, 0-sheep burners. So the first thing you need to do is to find out what make/model your burner is and if it is a 2-sheep burner or not. To determine your make and model of your optical drives; if you happen to have Nero Infotools installed, start it up and under the Drive tab, it will list all the relevant specifications and capabilities of your burner. The actual name of your burner is listed in the drop-down box at the top (those numbers before the name of your burner are important too!). You can get InfoTools from http://www.cd-rw.org/software/cdr_software/cdr_tools/nero_info_tool.cfm Once you have determined tha name of the burner, head on over to http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/45121 to see if that burner is listed there or not. If it is listed there, it is a 2-sheep burner; if it is not listed there it is not neccesarily a 2-sheep burner but highly unlikely. Now if you have a 2-sheep burner head on over to http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/23699 to find out how to copy a SafeDisc2 protected game. If you are running a 1-sheeper than visit http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/36444 for the appropriate guide. For information on how to Burn SecuROM and in particular, SecuROM 4.83: (using Alcohol120) http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/43802 (using CloneCD) http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/26771
Have you seen gamesXcopy by 321 studios?, It claims to put a ghost drive with your play disc onto your hard drive, you don't need to put in you play discs all of the time. I have had a good success rate, my HD now has a ghost drive for each of my games, very handy! I have however had no success as yet of making back up copies of my games with the software, this is another feature the software claims. I guess I will figure it out in time
