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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:34:32 GMT, Roderick Stewart
<rjfs@escapetime.nospam.plus.com> wrote:

>I have hardly any experience of commercial CD-based PC games, but 
>decided to install a couple on a new computer I've just built for my 
>daughter because I thought her kids might like them. This is where my 
>puzzlement begins.
>
>Although both games installed an enormous amount of material on the 
>hard drive, and one even required me to enter a serial number, both of 
>them seem to require that the original discs are in the drive before 
>they will run, and I can't find any way to avoid this. Is this normal?

This is only normal in the sense of being industry standard.  Don't be
suprised, since the comptuer entertainment industry was known to release a
copy-protection for the C64 that would eventually cause your disk drives to
run out of alignment.  

>For fear that repeated handling by kids might damage these discs, I 
>tried to make copies, but Nero reported read errors and gave up.

You need to tell Nero to ignore any read-errors, and let it run for a few
hours.  However, this won't work as most burners don't write SafeDisc or
SecuROM compatable images.  You're better off getting a No-CD crack,
available at www.gamecopyworld.com.