AOE2 Backup

[{{Mustang}}]

I hope this is posted to the correct forum if not please excuse me.

I need to make a backup of Age of Empires 2 before my son ruins the current CD. What is the best way to accomplish this? I know that MS has some sort of Copy Protection on the disk and that I will need a third party utility to copy the CD, but I don't know where to find one.
Any help in this matter would be appericated.
Thanks in advance
Chad aka {{Mustang}}

[Merc248]

try getting clonecd from the clonecd underground site at www.elaboratebytes.com. they also have a ### gen on their site, so u can register ur copy of clone cd. they should also have a list of games that need special settings on clonecd for it to work, so u should ##### that out to see what u should set clone cd on to burn aoe2.

[Buliwyf]

while, you're at it. is there a patch to allow single player of the expansion with no cd?

[Merc248]

goto ####://go.to/gamefix and get the aoe2 1.0b cracked update file, but after that, get the real update from ####://www.microsoft.com/games (should be somewhere around there), and then run the real update to update ur version of the conquerors to 1.0b, then after that, get the age2_x1.exe file from the cracked update and stick it into ur program files/microsoft games/age of empires ii/age2_x1/ directory to overwrite the previous one. now u can play w/o the cd on both single player and multiplayer.

[Joshua]

Is there another program than CloneCd that I can use?

Joshua

[tjw]

I have tried making a backup of my Coquerors disc but haven't had any success with it. My friend had his AOEll disc scratched by his kids and Microsoft wanted $30 for a replacement. Any help would be greatly appreciatted.