GTA: San Andreas - NoCD Problems

[askocz]

whats up fellas,
i bought the cd and was very happy with the game until my wife got P!$$ed off and scratched it up. ( I have a pic if anyone wants to see) Anyways, the game is installed on my system but it won't run without the cd. so i read thru the whole post and did what you guys suggested. After i replace the original GTA_SA.EXE file with hlm-gtasa.rar and try to run the game all that happens is a small DOS window opens up for about 1 second and than nothing happens. i wrote rockstar games to see if they could help me out but its been over a week and no reply. is there anything i could do or am i SOL.
thanks