[CS-FSLUG] Microsoft CDs

[Fred A. Miller]

On Thursday 11 August 2005 2:20 am, Nathan T. wrote:
> Quite a long time ago I got Age of Empires II and the expansion to
> that game, the game is published by Microsoft and has one very
> crippling bug I've come across far too many times, but aside from that
> it's fun.
>
> I've encountered a dilema with the game: the CD is wearing out. The
> disk does in fact it does have a few good scratches on it but it still
> reads fine when browsing the disk and installing or playing the game.
> I tried to burn a backup CD and that is when the trouble started,
> neither my desktop using Nero or K3B with my CD and DVD burner can
> copy the disk, the same happens with my Toshiba laptop.

[snip]

Have you tried using dvdbackup? It should get around any DRM on it, if there 
is any, and copy to the hard drive.

Fred

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