Quick question..

[ms_a]

My daughter is playing Sims on her comp. and wants the games in her room also (she's 10) so i was thinking of giving her burned copies, and i read several threads on fileforums and understood that Alcohol 120% will give least problems. I burned the original Sims without problems but when i try to read Livin it up (Living Large) Alcohol reads every error even with the "skip error" alternative... So here is my simple question: Is it supposed to take just about forever to make an image of the Living it up cd, or is "fast error skip" not working?
(Reading at 10x because i read somewhere that my burner, Lite-On 16102B, needed slow reading)
Any advice would be welcome guys :)

ms_a

[gh0sth@cker]

Read errors from sectors ~800-10000 are normal for copying Safedisk games. Make sure you use the Safedisk 2 profile.

[ms_a]

thanks for quick reply :)

ms_a

[RincewindTheWiz]

I don't think you're using the right option. The one you use is a feature that's only implemented in some cdwriters, I think. Just to be sure, you can always try the 'Fast error Dump' trick as described in VLuka's faq (see stickies). This is a trick with Daemon Tools, and to my knowledge it works just about every time. So read the faq, try the trick, I think it's going to save you quite some time.

[ms_a]

I'm not familiar with Deamon tools, i thought it was an emulator only with no burningcapabilites... I will read VLukas FAQ again, I must have missed that part about the trick :) Thanks :)

ms_a

[RincewindTheWiz]

Originally posted by ms_a
I'm not familiar with Deamon tools, i thought it was an emulator only with no burningcapabilites... I will read VLukas FAQ again, I must have missed that part about the trick :) Thanks :)

ms_a Daemon Tools can emulate safedisc 2. I don't know exactly why, but if you do it like the trick describes, you can speed up the reading of these corrupted sectors in programs like CLoneCD and Alchol120%. Try it, it will save you quite some time.

Here's the bit in VLuka's faq about it :

Quick mini-howto:
Insert the protected cd into the drive.
Enable Bad Sectors Emulation/SafeDisc Emulation in Daemon Tools/FantomCD/Alcohol 120%.
Run the installed game.
Quit the game and don't remove the cd.
Read the cd with Your favourite cd-cloning software like Alcohol 120%/FantomCD/CloneCD/BlindWrite Suite etc. bad sectors reading will be skipped and the digital signature will be generated automatically.
Disable Bad Sectors Emulation/SafeDisc Emulation.