How do we copy "self booting backups?"

#1 23-05-2001, 11:12

Hi, someone please help me!!! This is funked up! I ruined about 30 cdr's trying!.....

I have a creative cdrw and it wont work with psx burn program (wont find burner) that was confirmed to correctly copy self booting DC backups...
I tried Nero, clonecd, Now what? how?

please share the info.....

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Thelegs47 · #2 25-05-2001, 12:55

You need to use Diskjuggler 3.0 for making backups of backups. Just extract it of the original disk in .cdi format, then burn it. Have fun.

Wayniac · #3 25-05-2001, 16:02

Good luck to anyonwho can use Disc Juggler successfully. I used to be able to, until I got rid of my Philips 3610 for a Traxdata 8432+ writer.

Disc Juggler is very piccy about what writers you use. The only successful alternative I could find was CloneCD 2.7.8.1. Now I can copy self-booters, but for some very odd reason the DC takes an extra 15-20 seconds to get to the Sega screen; if you encounter this phenomenom don't worry, as after the Sega screen appears all is fine.
CloneCD can also be a bit piccy over which writer you use, but the help file has a nice table listing all the drives that work best and the reasons why.

I use an old Toshiba drive to do all my reading in CloneCD, using RAW mode. I then burn the self-booters at 8x using my Traxdata. To date there has only been a couple of games Iv'e been unable to backup.

Note: Games that don't self were as easy as pie to copy.

Good luck with your quest. :-)

Thelegs47 · #4 26-05-2001, 00:16

I'm using a Yamaha CRW8824E and I copy all my self booting backups with DiskJuggler3.0. I heard that Plextor, Mitsumi and Sony all work good with the program as well.