CloneCD Guide - Page 14

Tips

- How I can protect a CD with CloneCD?
1) Create a CD with two audio tracks at the end. How? Open your favorite CDR software and after finished adding data insert 2 audio songs on the end and close disc.
2) Open file.ccd
3) Find Lead-Out entry. How? Get CDRWin, press 6th button ("Table of Content") and look for total disk time: Remember the LBA number (example: 157275). Now look in the .ccd file for 157275. That's the entry you have to edit.
4) Change PMIN, PSEC, PFRAME to a place in between the 2 starts of audio tracks
5) Burn and ignore the warning.

The above procedure is not a so effective method to protect your CDs. You can copy data with explorer to the HD and also copy the first audio track, but not the second audio track (you can listen it however). Another idea is to try to burn a CD without Audio-tracks, but only DATA, and do the same procedure...

- How I can copy an AudioCD with FAKE TOC?
An example for such a CD is "Techno Club Vol.9". You'll need a recent version of CloneCD (2.2.1.1 or 2.3.1.1):

Procedure:
1) Read the CD (Enable reading of SubChannel Data from Audio Tracks, if desired).
2) When CloneCD starts reading Session 2, you will get read errors. Click "STOP".
3) If CloneCD asks, if you want to delete the partial image, say "NO".
4) Now burn the CD. CloneCD will inform you, that Lead-Out and Image size don't match.
5) Ignore that, use default settings and hit OK. You will get a protected copy.

How to remove the copy protection:
Read the Image as described above. Before writing, edit the created *.ccd file: Search for POINT=B0 entry. Modify PMIN, PSEC and PFRA to 255 each. Copy protection is gone!

- I installed Plextor Manager2000 and I cannot read SubChannel data with my Plextor drive...What I can do?
You can unistall Plextor Manager2000 and re-install CloneCD. That should fix it. You can also make keep the Plextor Manager2000 and read SubChannel data if you:

1) Uninstall Plextor Manager and reboot your PC
2) Reinstall CloneCD and reboot
3) Check to see if the drive now reads the SubChannel data.
4) If it does, reinstall Plexmanager software and reboot PC

All being well you should still be able to read SubChannel data with Plexmanager running!

Can I make a CD with FAKE TOC (ex. 1.3GB) with CloneCD?
You need to edit the .ccd file. Change the PMIN of the POINT=A2 entry to something "BIG" like 90 or 99. If you burn, CloneCD will tell you, that image and TOC won't match (which is correct). Just tell CloneCD to leave the TOC "as is" and write until the end of the image is reached.