Alcohol 120

[gentle]

Is Alcohole 120 the same as, better than Clone CD?? Is it used for copying protected software?? Is there a site that it can be down loaded from as i have always used Clone but it does'nt seem to be a reliable as it used to be.

Thanx

[RincewindTheWiz]

Read the sticky titled 'VLUKA's faq'. It's full of interesting copy information about among others Alcohol120% , plus it's hosted on Alcohol120%'s forums. And yes, it's better than CloneCD. Most of all, because Alcohol does the same thing as CLoneCD and Daemon Tools united. It costs money to register, but I can guarantee you it's worth it.

[toxpa]

Rincewind...i'm trying to use alcohol 120 for c&c generals...ya ya i know not another c&c post lol...anyways..i've tried every copy protection and i can't for the life of me get it to make an image...any suggestions?

[RincewindTheWiz]

Well, the software alone cannot guarantee a perfect safedisc 2 copy, you have to have a safedisc 2 compatible burner too. Go to this page, pick the make of your writer in the left column and check out the models in the right. If you can't find your make there, try to discover what your drive uses internally (most manufacturers just put a new case around another firms' electronics). Your drive has to have two sheep to work with safedisc 2, anything else won't work well enough. If you don't have a safedisc 2 compatible burner (I don't), you can always make a hard disk image with CloneCD or Alcohol120%. This image can compressed with winrar and the .rar archive can be put on the cd. This will give you a backup, where you only have to use the intermediate step of installing Alcohol120%/Daemon Tools, extracting the image and mounting it. It's not as handy, but it'll work (I've done this to make a backup of my original bf1942 cd's).

[gentle]

Originally posted by RincewindTheWiz
Well, the software alone cannot guarantee a perfect safedisc 2 copy, you have to have a safedisc 2 compatible burner too. Go to this page, pick the make of your writer in the left column and check out the models in the right. If you can't find your make there, try to discover what your drive uses internally (most manufacturers just put a new case around another firms' electronics). Your drive has to have two sheep to work with safedisc 2, anything else won't work well enough. If you don't have a safedisc 2 compatible burner (I don't), you can always make a hard disk image with CloneCD or Alcohol120%. This image can compressed with winrar and the .rar archive can be put on the cd. This will give you a backup, where you only have to use the intermediate step of installing Alcohol120%/Daemon Tools, extracting the image and mounting it. It's not as handy, but it'll work (I've done this to make a backup of my original bf1942 cd's).

Hi mate

Just read your post about the Clone cd site. Do i need two sheep in all columns?? I am after a new drive, what would you recomend?? CRD not DVDR.

Paul

[RincewindTheWiz]

You need two sheeps in the 'Correct EFM-encoding column'. A grey sheep is NO sheep at all, I think. There are not many burners who do perfect EFM-encoding, maybe one of the regulars here can suggest a make/model ?

[gentle]

Originally posted by RincewindTheWiz
You need two sheeps in the 'Correct EFM-encoding column'. A grey sheep is NO sheep at all, I think. There are not many burners who do perfect EFM-encoding, maybe one of the regulars here can suggest a make/model ?

Thanx for that mate. I have just down loaderd the Alcohol 120 trial version. Do you know if you can copy dvd to cdr with it?? If so, do you know how?? Are there any faqs/helps posted here??

Paul

[GLH]

I can suggest the LiteOn 32123S !!!
With these burner i haven't any problems making backups of SD2 protected cds using Alcohol 120% !!!

[toxpa]

well rince i took your advice and bought a license for alcohol..so far that seems to be fixing my copy problem...but at least i get more support from them if i need it...generals image is now complete

[RincewindTheWiz]

Originally posted by toxpa
well rince i took your advice and bought a license for alcohol..so far that seems to be fixing my copy problem...but at least i get more support from them if i need it...generals image is now complete

Congratulations, you won't be sorry. CloneCD finally makes 2.80 copies, but Alcohol120% was there WAY earlier. They seem to be really on the ball, just like CloneCD was years ago.

[toxpa]

ya i love it...way better than clonecd...the fact that it does the same as clone and daemon tools with mounting the virtual drives is a nice touch...