Backing up to VirtualCD
 

Hello everyone!
The problem is: i have a SafeDisk protected game-cd and want to copy it to my HDD to play it from VirtualCD.
1. i made a cd-image
2. used unSafeDisk to crack - result is unprotected .exe file
3. rename/added testme.exe to cd-image
4. converted image to .FCD

and ??? it doesn't work, keeping on asking for game cd, or hanging when i try to run the original executable.

What is my mistake? Any hints on how to handle this kind of situation?

P.S. I can download nocd pathes for peculiar games, make CloneCD 1:1 copy. But it doesn't solve the problem of playing games from HDD.

P.P.S. If this post seems too stupid - sorry :)

Thanx. I'll try it. Comments later.

OK, i've tested Daemon-tools - the result is the same:
everything looks fine until i want to play the game. It still asks me to insert the game CD. Though the virtual cd drive is working correctly.

Any ideas how to break cd-check? Or is there anything else i should know?

P.S. Everything was tested on Need 4 Speed - High Stakes.
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Now i see the problem. It's just that i've changed the default order of my cd's (virtual and physical). Leaving the 1-st cd drive daemon's dvd works fine.

what you can do copy the whole game to a directory in your hd and replace the game.exe with the one you downloaded,then you can burn it with nero

have you checked the emulator?

Thanx all of you.
As I've wrote before - everything is fine now. The problem was that i've changed the default order of my cd's. Virtual CD should state 1-st in the list.
As for Daemon tools - great solution.
Well, actually what I've done:
1. Grabbed a game using CloneCD.
2. Replaced game.exe with cracked one using WinIso (result - image.iso).
3. Enjoy the game!

P.S. Though Daemon-tools provide nice trick to play Safe-protected games, I prefer my own hacks. But still - Daemon-tools cool 8)