Will copying a game to my harddrive and burning it work?

[JeffB]

Whenever I use clone cd to copy and burn something it will copy an image file and i can burn it to a cdr fine, but when i run setup from the backup something always goes wrong. Like on Elite Force I get a "data=-117" error while 93% of the game as already installed and when i tried to load crimson skies it was missing 1 file because it apparently didn't burn correctly and that screwed up my entire setup. Does anyone know why my games aren't burning perfectly? One person told me to just copy all the contents of a cd to my harddrive and then burn those contents to a cdr and just go get a crack for the game and it should work fine. Will this process actually work?