AOM: Damaged CD. Is there a way I can still paly online?

[RincewindTheWiz]

You can also try to make a copy at very low read speed, this will skip over many read errors, possibly allowing you to still copy the whole cd. In Alcohol120's "Image Maker Wizard", select Datatype "Safedisc 2", then select "Read Speed" and put it on "1X", this will force Alcohol to use the lowest read speed possible on your cdwriter, this is usually 1/10th of the normal read speed. This really works, I've recovered five damaged original cd's this way myself. Of course your cd may be too scratched, but it never hurts to try. When you have made this image on the hard disk, mount it in ALcohol and try installing. If you're lucky and the image works fine, you can either burn it back to a backup (if you've got a safedisc 2 compatible writer), or you can do like me and compress the image files with winrar, and then write that 700Mb .rar file on a cd. Et voila, you've got a working backup.