Introduction of a newbie (just made first copy, Max Payne)

[Aotis]

Hi everyone, I tried all night trying to make a back up of Max Payne and finally got a good copy. For some reasons, Nero nor clonecd wouldn't read the original cd. I figured out to check "skip fast error" thingy... and it finally read, took me all night to figure that out. :( buttt... the forum help, so thanks majorly to everyone. Can someone explain why it wouldn't read the original cd in the first place? I am new at this, not too harsh please, thanks

[Sparkly]

Hi,

I'm a bit of a CD copying newbie too but from what I can work out some CD's are deliberately made with damaged sectors so most commercial proggys won't copy them (or it'll take so long that you'd give up.) What I can't figure out is though, sometimes when I've sucsessfully made a copy of a CD it won't pass the CD protection when I try to play with it.

P.S. Max Payne, cool game, shame it takes longer to copy than finish though ;P

[packer]

Some protection liek Max Payne has very strong Portection and only a few burners can correctly write incorrect data or damaged or what ever they do to that data. So even if you made a image and then copied it it might not work depending on what burner you have.

[packer]

Reading it is also the problem, when using normal reader it won't allow it to be read and copied. Clonecd uses speciall technique to get around this. I don;t know much about the technical detail.