Update (exchanged cd) Help vice city CD scratched!!!!

[Xionide]

The outer rim of my new Vice City cd is scratched from my crappy dvd drive, its not even worthy of being called a scratch. I have been trying to baby it back to being usable using window cleaner. It has helped some but, to no prevail. I cannot play vice city.
What household objects do you use to get cd's unscratched?

Xionide

Alright I exchanged my game at wal mart. And i want to make a disk image and use the backup primarily so I dont scratch the origanal. But it has some kind of copy protection. How do I get around this? Is it leagel to make a copy for backup even though it has protection?

Xionide

 

[Pilsnerpete]

Damn skippy! I've heard that works well.

 

[Luden]

I usually use pledge myself and buff it with a cotton cloth..

Luden.

 

[RyanM]

If the bastards who made the game didn't put Orwellian protection schemes on the disc, you wouldn't have a problem since making a legitimate backup copy would be as easy as duping a normal audio CD.

Unfortunately, since not enough people write their congresspeople to complain about the illegality of copy protection, this will continue to occur.

 

[Sid59]

that's why God created CD IMAGES.

 

[Xionide]

Originally posted by: Luden
I usually use pledge myself and buff it with a cotton cloth..

Luden.

Pledge?

 

[WinkOsmosis]

If you paypal me $5 I will ship you a CD with an ISO of the disc burned on it.

Edit: CCD actually. I use them with Daemon Tools so I don't have to keep putting the CD in the drive. Works like a charm.

Orwellian protection schemes? Hah!

 

[crypticlogin]

Brasso for light to moderate scratches.

 

[jaeger66]

Originally posted by: Luden
I usually use pledge myself and buff it with a cotton cloth..

Luden.

I can't imagine a worse thing to use on a CD than Pledge.

 

[jaeger66]

Originally posted by: Xionide


Pledge?

How can you not know what Pledge is?

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
If you paypal me $5 I will ship you a CD with an ISO of the disc burned on it.

Edit: CCD actually. I use them with Daemon Tools so I don't have to keep putting the CD in the drive. Works like a charm.

Orwellian protection schemes? Hah!

Wouldn't that be considered selling warez?

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
If you paypal me $5 I will ship you a CD with an ISO of the disc burned on it.

Edit: CCD actually. I use them with Daemon Tools so I don't have to keep putting the CD in the drive. Works like a charm.

Orwellian protection schemes? Hah!

Wouldn't that be considered selling warez?

No. It's selling a disc with software that he already owns.

 

[amdskip]

Can't you just exchange it at the store?

 

[Xionide]

Im gonna try that. I bought it at wally world so i shouldnt have a problem

Xionide

 

[hdeck]

see if it will rip.

 

[Xionide]

I made one rip. If i use my dvd drive it will rip. But once i burn it it will NOT play the game off the copy. Any suggestions?

 

[Sid59]

nocd.exe

 

[Chess]

always make backups of your cds...

 

[SinfulWeeper]

Originally posted by: Chess
always make backups of your cds...

How do we do that with EA games? It will not let me... :|:|:|

 

[AthlonXP]

Originally posted by: SinfulWeeper

Originally posted by: Chess
always make backups of your cds...

How do we do that with EA games? It will not let me... :|:|:|

visit the kazaa store.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: SinfulWeeper

Originally posted by: Chess
always make backups of your cds...

How do we do that with EA games? It will not let me... :|:|:|

Then your CD drive sucks.

1-to-1 backup copies in ten minutes here with CCD and RAW DAO+96

- M4H

 

[SinfulWeeper]

I doubt it sucks. Not a single person I know of can back up EA games. Not even my new DVD+RW will do it on a brand new MOA disk.

I think it's some kind of copy protection BS.