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marath · 18-06-2007

First of all, I'm a complete newbie here & this is my first post. (consider myself to have low-to-middling computer literacy, but after reading several threads here, I think I'm just plain dumb!

). After searching, this seems the closest thread for my problem (despite it's age)

My brand new copy of Links 2003 installed but refused to validate disc 1 for playing. Following advice from G@M3FR3@K on another thread, I've burned a CD-R backup of disc 1 using Nero (@4x) on my Liteon 321235 (32x12x40), uninstalled the game & reinstalled it using this back-up: apparently this has been successful (?), but it still won't validate disc 1 for playing.

I believe I need to unwrap the Safedisc protection from the game's main .exe file. Have d/l Safedisc Analyzer, but don't understand how it works at all, although apparently this game uses vers 2.60.052?

So:-
1) is this what I need to do?
2) how do I get hold of the Unwrapper for this Safedisc version?, &
3) how does this Unwrapper work? (I've tried Unwrapper vers 2.40.10 & have no idea what to do with it

).

Sorry to be such a klutz, & I would really appreciate any help on this. Thanx.

18-06-2007	#10 (permalink)
marath New on Forum Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2	Re: Links 2003 - Can't install from backup First of all, I'm a complete newbie here & this is my first post. (consider myself to have low-to-middling computer literacy, but after reading several threads here, I think I'm just plain dumb! ). After searching, this seems the closest thread for my problem (despite it's age) My brand new copy of Links 2003 installed but refused to validate disc 1 for playing. Following advice from G@M3FR3@K on another thread, I've burned a CD-R backup of disc 1 using Nero (@4x) on my Liteon 321235 (32x12x40), uninstalled the game & reinstalled it using this back-up: apparently this has been successful (?), but it still won't validate disc 1 for playing. I believe I need to unwrap the Safedisc protection from the game's main .exe file. Have d/l Safedisc Analyzer, but don't understand how it works at all, although apparently this game uses vers 2.60.052? So:- 1) is this what I need to do? 2) how do I get hold of the Unwrapper for this Safedisc version?, & 3) how does this Unwrapper work? (I've tried Unwrapper vers 2.40.10 & have no idea what to do with it ). Sorry to be such a klutz, & I would really appreciate any help on this. Thanx.