My CD is scratched and won't install, if I burn a copy or the CD will it make a difference? Thanks

A cd cleaning kit might be able to fix it . If you can find a cdrom drive (some drives seem to be more sensitive than others) that can read the files off the cd you should be able to make backup.

<font color="lightblue">Try copying all the files from the CD onto HDD. If you can`t copy some, try going copying them through your burner (ie, Explore the CD on your CD Burner). If there`re still files that don`t copy over, you might have to get another copy of the game. </font>

doing a full install of the game could help too, copy all the files into a folder in the bg2 directory called CDx (where x is the cd you're copying) and then go into the baldur.ini file and change the location from the cd-rom to the directory where the cd is (full file path (ie C://programs/games/bg2 soa/cd2)