if they're heavy scratched, then you might have problems... really long wait time's while it tries to read the errors, or possibly just waiting a long long time for it to finish. or the disc will fail. you wont be able to get an image out of it. if you do manage to get an image out of a heavily scratched disc, then the cd-r copy will be better, because your cd/rw or dvd rom will be able to read a hellavu lot better than your psx laser. so you could actually recover lost data. anyhow, when you do get the fresh burned cd-r outta it, you probably wont have as many problems that you normally get from of the original. good luck. i wrote this while stoned =)