Backing up Medals of Honor

shirls · #1 16-02-2002, 18:24

I am a newbie to the back up thing with all the new copy protections that are out. I have been trying to make a back-up of Medals of Honor and only end up making coasters. I have tried Clone Cd (newest version) at a read speed of 4X and CD Mate using their safe disk 2 settings from the pull down with no success. I am using a Plextor 24/10/40 A to read & write. Can someone PLEASE offer me some step by step insructions on how to do this

packer · #2 17-02-2002, 01:09

get clonyXXl for future use and that will tell you what settings to use. But your plex won't do it

gh0sth@cker · #3 17-02-2002, 04:20

Also slow the write down as well -reading low and writing high with MOHAA didn't work for me. This new SD2 seems to be a read and write issue.

packer · #4 17-02-2002, 05:51

gh0sth@cker, what burner do you have? THe plex 24x?

shirls · #5 17-02-2002, 09:59

Thanks for the tips I was able to get a working back-up with no need for patches etc... using clode cd I slowed the read speed to 4X, enabled fast error skip set the retry to 3 times and set error correction to none. After writing the image file I ran Betablocker. In write I used speed 6X, enabled buffer under run protection and enabled always close last session. I had tried Betablocker on previous attempts but it did not work but by read & write speeds were much higher so it looks like speed is a major factor on the safe disk 2 protection. SO its safe to say the plextor 24/10/40A will burn a safe disk 2 copy

shirls · #6 17-02-2002, 10:01

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Originally posted by packer
get clonyXXl for future use and that will tell you what settings to use. But your plex won't do it

Clony XXL is not 100% accurate with the settings when copying safe disk 2 protected disks

packer · #7 17-02-2002, 11:11

Why not? The setting within FES can vary and still give the same results, if that's what you meen...

ALso you do not have a perfect copy although you don't need patches, because you used betablocker!

gh0sth@cker · #8 17-02-2002, 14:50

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Originally posted by packer
gh0sth@cker, what burner do you have? THe plex 24x?

Yep, good old Plexy 24X

shirls · #9 17-02-2002, 17:13

Packer - Please note in my posting NO WHERE did I state I had a perfect copy ! and even if I did use beta blocker all that matters is I am able to install and play the game as if it was the original !

unhinged · #10 18-02-2002, 04:37

I use an old Sony 2x and by using Blindread2.0 i copies the disc to the hard drive and then using beleive it or not Adaptec CD creator 4.0 to burn the image data to a clean cd. Once installed i just copied over a downloaded crack to the game. Slow i know but it worked first time no worries. Trust an Aussie to adapt and overcome...

packer · #11 18-02-2002, 07:16

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Originally posted by shirls
Packer - Please note in my posting NO WHERE did I state I had a perfect copy ! and even if I did use beta blocker all that matters is I am able to install and play the game as if it was the original !

Well sorted then!

Congrats on getting it working!