Age of Empires II and Exp pack : Backups

[gh0sth@cker]

It installing alright is irrelevant because this is not where the copy protection is. The copy protection kicks in when you try to play the game (hence the 'please insert correct cd-rom')

You have not made a perfect 1:1 copy of the game (ie. where the backup is identical to the original so the copy protection is intact). You can follow the guide to making a 1:1 copy (or try downloading Alcohol 120% and using it's General Protected Game Profile). Failing that, goto Gamecopyworld and download a crack for the game you need - you will need to extract the crack from it's archive using WinRAR (just like a zip file), then copy/paste the new exe over to where the original exe is.