Splinter Cell PC backup!!

[jakey]

Hi

I desperately need some help backing up the PC vers. of Splinter Cell..

Ive tried all the no-cd .exe fixes and the core.dll replacement files, ... i dont recieve the "insert correct cd" message.... but just when it looks like its going to boot it suddenly jumps back to winxp and and i get a critical error msg... "General Protection Fault" history "InitEngine"...

Ive read some stuff thru searching google about he protection found on the Splinter Cell original cd's but still i dont understand how to bypass the protection in order to make a successful backup copy
i get the feeling that it might have somthing to do with the program used to burn the 3'cds....

Has anyone made a woking back-up of this game or mabye you can just offer me some advice/tips/techniques )

Any help would be much appreciated thankyou !

 

[aye29]

What program are you using to make your backups? Whenever I need to backup anything I always use Clone CD (http://www.clonecd.net/) which is supposed to make exact 1:1 copies of CDs. It always works fine for me.

 

[Lostman]

If you are making a backup, then you should still have the original. Play with the original and just install the no-cd crack. Why make a backup if your going to use the no-cd?

Sounds fishy to me..........

 

[Screed92]

Not so fishy. I've got the original and made a backup. Still haven't played it though. Anyway, I used either CloneCD or Blindwrite. I don't remember which one but I've had great success with both.

 

[Shakie]

The best way to "backup" stuff like this is to copy the entrie CD to you HDD. Then use daemon tools or something like that to create a virtual CD-Rom. Then you can mount the game to that Virtual cd and then you can play it.

If your system crashes, well you have the original right?

 

[Techie23]

Virtual Drives

Alcohol 120% will create virtual drives up to 6 and images of your
CD-roms. I use this on my laptop so I don't have to cart my CD's around all over the place.

You can get it here.
http://download.com.com/3000-2646-10205910.html?tag=lst-0-1