Safedisc passed, now what?

Trying to backup new storebought copy of Simcity3000 Unlimited v1.0 (english) before CD gets ruined. Anyone successfully backup this game ever? It has Safedisc v1.40.001 r3 (a1), so used Unsafedisc v1.5 to successfully remove it from the EXE. The problem is using fixed exe stills gives me error because CD-Check, and even with cd in it doesn't see it, starts to load, then "no-cd, insert cd now and click retry". What do I do with the unsafedisc'd exe file to make a backup and what is the point of unsafedisc anyway? Overwrite the original exe and just burn the cd with cloneCD or what? Thinking it wouldn't work less I get it to work on HDD first so no point in making coasters. The readme's in these files aren't very helpful please advise on what to do next before I go crazy trying to figure it out...

Possible to take the fixed.exe made with unsafedisc and remove the cd-check from it? Hex edit? Saw links for cd-check remover but ALL the links are dead! (trying to get sc3ku_no_cd.exe) if anyone has this file let me know I need the BNAAP_CRK.exe file from the archive, i think that would remove the cd check..?

Oh yeah, my CD drive is HP Cd-Writer+ 8000.
Thanks in advance for any input.