Alcohol 120 prob

Newbie Forum
#1

I recently bought a pioneer 111D dvd re-writer,
all DVD and CD discs burn fine with nero, but do not with alcohol 120%.

In Alcohol I make a DVD image and then burn it to a blank dvd. There’s no errors or pop-ups in Alcohol.

When the DVD’s finished burning, i place the DVD disk burned with Alcohol back in the pioneer 111D drive and also tried the disk in another dvd-rom drive, Windows says the dvd’s a blank CD?

When i look under the disk there’s a session on there.

Any Suggestions Welcome…

Chris R

#2

Uninstall Alcohol, that is the best choice to avoid trouble.

#3

Hello Chris,

If you follow thew suggestion of chef you should uninstall all software from your ´puter. Best solution should be to throw out your entire pc. You´ll never again have troube with it again :bigsmile:

Now, joking aside, what are you trying do do? Make a backup? Of what? A game? Original on CD or DVD? Any copy protection involved? What version of Alcohol do you have? OS?

#4

hi Seto1 thanks for you prompt response, yeah that would be the easier solution, trash the computer lol.

I’m running Windows XP Home with a 1GB of memory and AMD Athlon 2200xp, i’m using Alcohol 120% Version 1.9.5 (Build 3105).

I’m trying to back up an original game Call Of Duty 2 with Alcohol 120% to save the original dvd getting stratched with general use. , I have no idea what protection the game has built in.

Nero burns dvd’s and cd’s fine.

I have included my dxdiag file.

Chris

#5

Chris,

you should get first a good scanner to know by yourself what copy protection is being used! Search for “ProtectionID”.

I don´t have COD2, but could have SafeDisc as copy protection. If this is correct (SafeDisc and DVD), just make a image with Alcohol and install it from the image.

Making a backup of SafeDisc protected discs is very hardware dependent, at least from SafeDisc v2.9+. As I said, I don´t have the game, so I´m unable to try it out myself!

#6

If your using 1.9.5.3105 then to 99% your Drive isnt supported by Alcohol update then you should have no problems.