Final Fantasy 8 Backup

[EvilFury]

Sorry for kicking such an old topic back up again, but I have the same problem.

Anyway, my CD3 of FF8 was damaged, there was a little scratch on it, so it would hang on the movie where you got shot into outer space. (After getting kicked out of the Lunatic Pandora with Zell's party)

I tried to copy it with CloneCD, but it didn't work, since it gave read errors, and then stopped reading it. (At 72%)
Later on an acquaintance suggested to try and burn it too. And so I gave the CD3 to him. It succeeded, but what I didn't know, is that it had a security on it =( So the PSX logo came up on my PSX but after that, it was just a black screen.

I tried to use a crack that I found on the internet, for the PAL version. (Mine is an original CD from The Netherlands as well, so a Europian version) Anyway, he brought his PC over, to try it again, but still no work yet. I'm currently reading some stuff on what software to use, and what the requirements are... But I hope you can give me some info on what to do as well...

PS: I'm no professional in PSX burning, more like a newbie to it. So please be as specific as you can =)

Thanks.

Edit: The crack I used, was CHEN's PAL crack. So for the PAL version (Europian, whatever..)