Problem Copying PC Games to a CDR/W

[Four_of_Five]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this...

...enways, I'm trying to copy a PC game (ie TombRaider) to my hard disk, thinking that I'd still be able to install and launch the game even without the game's CD on my CDRom (just like with some other games)...however, with this one, im not able to for some reason or another, it still asks for the game cd to be inserted on the CDrom drive...so I thought ...what if I copied the entire game cd on a cdr/w and launch the game app from there? Hmmm...

It still won't recognize the copied cdr...is this a copyright thing? Only the orig game cd will work...how come? Btw, I used Nero to burn the cdr/w...Is there a work-around to this? Or did I just miss something?

Thanks in advance for any tips!

[BJ_M]

copyright thing . they use various copy protection to prevent you from making copies..

[darkangel]

Wrong forum & site try www.computing.net

[raven282]

What you can do is try and make a cd image using cdrwin. Put that on your hard drive and install daemon tools. In daemon tools load the image and try to install and if it still won't work you can turn on safe disk emulation and that might solve your problem.

[Will Hay]

It still won't recognize the copied cdr...is this a copyright thing? Only the orig game cd will work...how come? Btw, I used Nero to burn the cdr/w...Is there a work-around to this? Or did I just miss something?

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[coda304]

Use *CloneCD* for perfect 1:1 copies of protected games that need no cracks to run from CD drive!!!