copied cds wont work, please help!

[Mr.Mondo]

I just got a beautiful new dell 1Ghz with all the bells and whistles running windows ME and I need help buring cds. It came with Adaptec CD creator 4 but that just wasted cds, if they had copy protection it would write a little then throw an error message. Now I have Nero, it writes the whole cd, but the autorun on the copied cd doesnt work, and all the exe files give me a "not a valid win32 application" error when I try to open them. I followed the instructions on gamecopyworld.com and still ended up with a worthless cd. my cd burner is a LG CD-RW CED-8080B . I really need some help here, I dont know too much about cd burners cause this is my first. The read drive is a Lite-On LTN483S 48x. My system will copy games like Diablo and Starcraft but I have tried and Failed at Red Alert 2 (both CDs), Delta Force Landwarrior, Delta Force and a few others and its getting kinda expensive so please help.

[George]

RA2, Alice, Undying (I think), and some others have safeDisc2 protection. Lots of drives will read to an image file ok, but not many will correctly burn the image to a blank cd. Often you can use a fixed game.exe, but in the case of RA2, the setup.exe is also protected by SD2 (ouch!) therefore it won't install.

You need to find out if your reader/burner is compatible with cloneCD (it writes in dao/raw.) A few plextors and some phillips and HP's will do the job. Sometimes though, you don't really know what the drive actually is because manufacturers use one anothers hardware.

[RAMONES]

I have the same recorder, and I just can't copy shadowman... My friend do it using the same program/procedures... (CDRWin)

[WDR]

To Mr.Mondo

you said you get "not a valid win32 application" errror when u read the CD.
but when you were burning CD, did you "use" the computer?

You can't run any big program when you burning CD, i hope you know.

WDR }>

[halofan]

I have heard that Nero and Creator dont work, but could be wrong. I Have Nero but dont use it. I use CloneCD\Clony and they work. Go to CDRINFO.com and get the Clone cd Guide. Its help me out alot. CDRW may be a sony my friend as a dell and his writer is a sony. Good Luck

Halofan

[Raks55]

first of all before you do anything is to get rid of adaptec, never ever ever ever install that ever again. since it was preinstalled i let you off ;-) clean out the registery entries and then install nero. adaptec is a total piece if crap never ever buy it i found this out after buying the worthless thing.