Mysteries Of The CDRW and Back Ups Revealed

Test System Configuration

The Challenge Revealed More Than We Hoped For !

In order to challenge our four writers, we selected four original commercial CDs to use in our testing. As you can see in the picture below, we covered the titles on the discs. This was done to satisfy the software publishers, since we would have expected some of them to complain if we revealed the entire disc. This compromise should keep everyone happy. We will refer to the original test discs as disc 1, disc 2, disc 3, and disc 4. Here is a breakdown of the copy protection schemes used on each of our test discs.

• Disc 1 - Safedisc 2 - Game
• Disc 2 - Safedisc 2.51 - Game
• Disc 3 - TAGES - Game
• Disc 4 - Cactus Data Shield - Audio CD

We used Post-It notes to indicate which disc was which. We also wanted to cover up the majority of the name on each disc. We did not show the full disc because some companies have lawyers who don’t like such things. At any rate, by looking at the picture, we think that you’ll get the idea.

To determine whether using CloneCD or Blindread/ Blindwrite would make a difference, we tested with each of them.