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Old 21-12-2002, 14:44
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Another thing that can fix a bad cd, is reading it at the lowest speed possible. The lower the speed, the more chance it gets corrected, although this is really hit and miss. Yesterday I saved one of my originals of Baldur's Gate II, by reading at 4x speed, the lowest my writer supported. I used CloneCD for this, you can edit the "Game CD" profile and set the speed lower there. Once you have an image on your hard disk, you can use CD Mage to make sure it's correct and then make a new working cd. Copying to the hard disk probably won't work unless you try another drive, since manually copying of the files to the hard disk always happens at the highest speed.
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