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CD not real. please insert original

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yea my frozen throne disc got scratched all to hell and i can no longer install the game so i have to copy and paste froma backup disc lol. every now and then it will tell me to insert my cd (when i already have the original cd in the drive) but hitting retry a few times will eventually start it. as well, since I had to get a registry key off the internet, (otherwise it wont let u patch) the registry is only partial and the game wont start when you put in the cd, because it informs me that i have to isntall warcraft 3 roc first lol. I have to click my frozen throne icon and then the game starts without a hitch
 
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I've bought and installed both RoC and TFT way long ago and used to have the original TFT disc in my CD-ROM/DVD-ROM. It worked just fine (surprising, huh?), until WC3 poped me this dialog, roughly like this; "Please make sure you have the original WC3 TFT disc inserted". Since I had the original TFT dics inserted, I ejected it, picked it up and found some minor scratches. To be on the safe side, I decided to emulate the disc instead.

First, I tried to used ISOBuster to make an image of my TFT disc. That didn't work, so I tried to make an image of my RoC disc instead, since you can use both to run TFT. This time I got the same error from ISOBuster, but when I loaded the .cue file (with Securom emulation enabled) in Daemon Tools, it worked! Furthermore, I have never seen that dialog again.

I really don't know what Blizzard thinks about this, but I say it's OK, since it's just an image of my original, bought disc.
 
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I use my RoC cd because my Tft cd make my computer go bananas and the cd start spinning with 100 mph, atleast, it sounds and vibrates like that x) and i can't open my cd-drive so it just continue spinning like a mad until i restart my computer and removes the cd before it begins again. It's a weird bug my computer makes, and it's only with that cd, i've tried it on other pc's and they work fine. Very weird
 
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VictorOfSweden said:
I really don't know what Blizzard thinks about this, but I say it's OK, since it's just an image of my original, bought disc.

You're well within your legal rights to make a copy of any data you own (in this case the cd) for your own personal use, so basically your fine as long as it's you using the image. Personally, I doubt Blizzard cares if you make copies and give them to all your friends, they do care when you start selling them to your friends though.
 
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