newbie needs some advice...please!!

[steelhedave]

this is my first post so i will keep it short. i reasearched as much as could about making a backup of a game, (combat flightsim 2 pacific, in question here) and floowed the instructions for a copy using clone lastest v3.2. i set up as specified read speed 1x, selected read sub. chnl frm data trks, and audio trks, also fast error skip set to retry 5, error corr. to none. made the image. then burned the cd at 12x selected rawdao, don't repair sub chnl the rest unchecked except close last session.
it wouldn't work and now the original disk won't work either. any ideas on my next move?
my equipment is a yamaha crw2100s scsi 16x 10x 40. (an athlon 1900xp @2000 with ocz 2700 cl2 mem on a shuttle ak31a board). do i need to reinstall the game to clear it and start over. but will the same thing happen?

[Shivasjoy]

Thats an older Game isnt it??
Yes it is so copy the hole CD in a Folder example C:\Game\game
and then burn the CD from the Folder is that easy
If it is a newer Game

Install ClonyXl its easy to find on google u will see look what a security is on the CD like safeDIsc or something else and burn ur CD
Shiva
www.Shivasjoy.ch

[steelhedave]

thanks for your input. i tried the cone a cd 3.2 as i said, i have done more research and found different settings for the imaging process. i notice that when i do make an image with clone cd i get three files, a .ccd, .img, and .sub. how can i modify those as images as some of the programs suggest, or do i need to. ? there are so many patches and fixes out there it is confusing. the simplest way seems to be just make a 1:1 copy which is read at 1x and burn at 1x correct?and have the raw dao capability which i have.
i have done this, and as i stated in my orig. post now the actual game cd doesnt work! so now what? i dl'd the clonyxl but it is all german and i cant understand it. is there an english ver? according to the sites i don't need it just the one-to-one read and burn. what i would really like to do is make a no cd image or copy that i can play right off the hard drive.. anyone know how to do that? and have a back up disk of the game cuz my 3 yr old ruins them faster than i can afford them. i checked the sites and yes combat flight sim 2 pacific is older and appearently uses safedisk (not v2.) so i looked it up and ran copies accordingly but it didn't work it still wants the original disk? anymore ideas. it all sounds so easy once you get the hang of it and know what is what but it takes a little help gettin to that point when your new. thanks again dave