CD CLONE

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i was wondering wot every 1 uses for reading and writing i use 4x read 4x write for cd clone is that bad?
and can sum 1 tell me if a scratch on a disk can effect the reading cause i was doin nba 2001 and using cd clone and it froze on cdrwin and then froze at 41% on cd clone and then wen i look at the bottem it had sum bad scratches could that b why? i will appriciate ne help thx