I am trying to load my civ 4 onto a my hard drive. I can use clonecd to make an image. I can install from the images using virtual clonedrive. When I try to run the game from the images after the install it says disk in not present. When I put in the original cd into the cd drive I can play the game. I want to avoid using the cd because the kids will put their dirty hands on them. Any suggestions.

Rkshack

If you want to run the game from an image mounted on a virtual drive, uninstall Virtual Clone Drive and try either alcohol 52% or Daemon Tools. Note that you should install the game from the mounted image and you may need something like sd4hide to run the game from the image.

Using virtual clone drive and sd4hide seems to work ok. I noticed that hide cdr media is not supposed to be an available option in the usa. Why do I have access to it. Am I just lucky?

i have a civilization 4:warlords disc that i want to copy. Every time i try to copy it using Alcohol 120%, i get about 1% and the progress stops. There are also alot of read errors on it too. what can i do?

^ I presume that the disc is a cd rather than a dvd. If so, read errors are normal for a safedisc protected cd (it's part of the copy protection ). Just be patient and let the reading process continue. The reading process will speed back up after the first ~10,500 sectors or so (generally about the first 3-5% of the disc).