call of duty help

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Originally Posted by sublime90

i backed up and installed call of duty ran the no cd patch 1.4 but when ever i try playing the game an error comes up saying. "couldnt load default cfg make sure call of duty is run from the correct folder" anyone know what i need to do?

OK, I'm somewhat of a newbie on game disc protection so this question has me baffled. Yes, I own a legitimate retail CoD disc. Trying to avoid using the original disc as much as possible, I copied Disc 1 using Alcohol with settings for SafeDisc protections. But just as the original posted indicated, after installing from the back up, I get the same "can't load Default Cfg" and no, the game is not installed to the root folder but rather the default folder suggested during the install.

If I re-install using the factory original disc, I can use the back-up to authenticate the CD and the game runs just fine. So obviously Alcohol is on the right track but is still missing something. Any suggestions on how to create a legitimate back-up?
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