backing up pc games

[Matrix_581]

Hi i have too many pc games and a lot of hard disc space.

what i want to do is make images of the cds on my hard drive, and just mount them whenever i want to play them.

How do I go about doing this? i have nero % alcohol 120%.

Its mostly old games i want to do (the quakes, unreal,thief, starcraft)

thanks

[kyle5077]

Put in the CD, and create an image (pretty much any format will work.)

Then use D-Tools to mount it.

HTH

[celtic_druid]

Can create and mount the images with Alcohol 120%. You might want to try a protection scanner like a-ray if you are not sure of the protection used.

[old engineer]

Yep Alcohol 120% is the easiest prog for what u r trying to do.

[handyguy]

dvdxcopy folks have a gamexcopy program.

[psibob84]

alcohol 120% is a comprehensive yet still easy to use program for what u want

[Matrix_581]

okay say i want to back up a image, i used aray to scan the orginal disc, and it says it has no protection, so when i make a normal data image and burn it, it doesnt work.


ideas?

[celtic_druid]

Could be using a non generic protection or aray could simply be wrong.

What game?

[Matrix_581]

black hawk down + addon
And
counterstrike condition zero

[celtic_druid]

Well Black Hawk Down if I remember correctly is protected with Securom so it is no supprise that it didn't work.

Counterstrik Condition Zero is also Securom protected.

Use the securom > v4.8x or whatever it is called profile and you should get a working image.