CloneCD and COD

[blubomber]

I am currently using CloneCD to make a backup copy of my Call of Duty disks. The backup seems to be taking a long time. 18min to get to 1%, but i have not recieved any errors.

Is this normal? is the backup not going well or is there some other setting i need in order to make it work better?

Thank you for any help.

[tony_j15]

wait for it to finish, then try the disk. Sometimes it can take a while because the disk has "errors" on it. These errors are actually a security measure meant to cause burning to fail, but CCD can pick past them. it just might take a while

[blubomber]

Ok. I will wait but at this rate it will take a few hours. Are the errors all over the CD?

[tony_j15]

usually only up through the first 100-200mb. you can also try using Alchohol 120% if CCD doesnt work.

[blubomber]

Got it done. Took over an hour to backup the first CD. Second CD was no problem. Thanks for the replies Tony!

[Starfury_2260]

Alcohol 120% and clony best solution i've found for backing up.

[Vyx]

Clony XXL ; Alcoholer; and Alcohol 120% are all you need for backing up games the first two are free but you have to pay for Alcohol 120%. This has worked for me to back up all of the games that i have.
1. start clony xxl scan the cd
2. load alcoholer, it will create a profile for the game you are trying to backup
3. start alcohol 120% use the profile that alcoholer created to make an image. this way it will only take a couple minutes to make the image instead of hours like with clonecd.
This is just the way i do it. there are probably other ways but this is the way that i have found to work best.

[poopeyhed2]

It sounds like your reader doesn't have Fast Error Skip or it's not enabled, hence the long time to read each and every error.

Because CoD is SafeDisc 3.x - there are "weak" sectors as the copy protection implemented by Macrovision.

[blubomber]

I dont think my burner is that old but i dont know. I believe it is a 32x one made by AOpen. But you could be right poopeyhed.

I did start out with Alcohol 120% but it kept showing me the errors and since this was my fist game backup i was not sure if things were going well. CloneCD just keeps moving along and does not show you the read errors.

Good stuff to know for future backups.

[poopeyhed2]

Those 'errors' are correct and fine. I forget how well the AOpen drives perform on this - but the top 3 manufacturers on the top of my head are Plextor, Asus, and Lite-On.