[FO2] saving a precious jewel

[Nexus]

saving a precious jewel

OK this is proberbly more of a tech-issue - but the tech forum is moving immensly slow - so I hope you can bare with me because I would REALLY like your opinion.
The problem goes as follows - my Fallout 2 CD has become a bit worn out (or maybe its CD-rom drive), that is to say i'm having difficulties when installing the game - ok you could always go for the largest instalation that would minimize the use for the CD. It is not critical.........yet, but it will be over time.
I had the "bright" idea of ripping the CD making an iso-file and thus saving it on my hard drive for easyer use with deamon tools.
Only problem is....it dosn't work - I think theres some kind of laserlock (proberbly a trademark)that inhibits the making of such an iso or burning format.
Has any of you guys tried this, if so I would like to hear your ideas and suggestions
Ofcource I could always download it from edonkey - but it takes forever and I already got the original game.

Hope to hear from you
Cheers from Denmark

 

[Xellos]

RE: saving a precious jewel

You can use a program like Virtual CD to make an image of the game that you can play from on the HD. I'm assuming that you have a Windows machine. On the Mac you can use Disk Copy.

As far as I know, FO2 has no copy protection implemented on the CD.

 

[Nexus]

RE: saving a precious jewel

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>>i'm assuming you that you have a windows machine<<
- your right, I forgot to tell.

Funny thing is, neither Winiso nor virtual or nero or other program I've tried seems to be able to make the image file - aparently due to some bad sectors on the CD (so the programs say). The odd thing about this hole situation is that with a new CD-rom drive i have no problems installing the game - this only lead me to conclude that they prebed the CD with some nifty anti-copying software wich kind of bug me. I think it's called laser lock and there is something called a laser lock fixer (program / software) but i can't make any sensible use of it - I'm to dimwitted

Maybe some of you guys know something that could solve this ehh mystery.