Greyhorse, i think you have made a good choice, i have the lite-on 32 as in my sig! it is great. The lite-ons are usually better priced that their rivals and that i like and also it can do all protecions, except Tages and starforce, but no other cdrw can do them either. One more thing, hte liteon can;t read the cactus data shield protection but can write it if you use soomehting else to read it!

you are better off buying a plextor 24/10/40a, its worth paying a bit more for a far better drive and it can copy all versions of sd2 , that is how i backed up my copy of mohaa .

Why is a Plextor a far better drive? Especially since the Plextor is considerably more expensive. I'm curious why you think this is better than the Liteon.

they are more expensive because they are better , yes they can copy all the same things as a plextor , however you get a 2 year on site warranty with plextor and its a very fast service they provide , you can buy a 24 speed plextor for under £100 or the 40 speed for £120 . You get what you pay for .
Liteon is the poor mans plextor , lol , ill get sh$t for saying that .

The Plextors are good quality drives. They come with excellent technical support and are well built. Only downside is the SD2.51 capabilities.

i had my 24/10/40a plextor a month and had a problem with a noisy cd tray , they arranged a courior to collect it , dhl in fact and i got a new drive 4 days later , no messing about , if you return anything to a company you bought from on the net you can wait weeks to get your goods returned , 10/10 for service from plextor , if only all hardware companys provided such a good service .

Personally, I think the Plex 2-yr on site warranty is a crock. First off, who's gonna have the same recorder two years from now? Secondly, I don't like (or allow) anyone to mess around with my rig except me. If there's a problem, *I* will fix it, not some snooping creep who will probably be whackin' off to my pr0n! :p

I'm very pleased with my LiteOn 40x, I could have bought 2 of them for the price of 1 Plex. But price wasn't the only reason I went with LiteOn. All you Plex fanboys do yourself a favor and check out the LiteOns. They are cheap, but they are awesome.
:cool:

medal of honor backup
 

the one's on this board are more knowledgeable than i am, but i was able to make a working back up of medal of honor, by doing the following,
1. I installed Cloney, a program that detects protection being used,
i believe i found it on this site
2. next I ran cloney, with the orginal medal of honor cd in my cd drive, and scaned it, it detected the protection, and set up the right setting for clone cd to make a copy, note* you can run clone cd from this program it set up to do just that.
3. i burn a copy which took around thirty minutes per cd, because of the protection. I burn at 4x speed, and ignored errors checked
4. i installed the game, but my operating system windows 2K Pro
ran into errors trying to run it.
5. I found a NO-CD patch, which runs the game with out a cd,
I do not remember where i located the patch at the moment,
maybe on game copy world, or astalavista.
6. i copy the patch in the game file directory, and replace the existing one with the patch
7. the game runs beautiful, no problems at all
I am playing it now, and love it.

Re: medal of honor backup
 

:eek: A working back up wouldn't have required a crack to get it to run though, so you might wanna re-phrase that.

I agree with you
 

the perfect copy would not require a patch, but the NO-CD patch,
work out beautifully, i do not require the cd to play the game.
even if you install the game useing the orginal cd, you still need the cd to play the game, which can be a pain in butt. To constantly change cd's back and forth. I know of people who purchased the game, and purchased the NO-CD patch to go with it just to avoid just that hassle . All i can said is i installed the game using the copy i made, and used the NO CD patch. and everthing works A-OK, i am happy with it. It made not be a perfect copy but i love it the way it is using the patch.

lite on cd
 

To make a point, Installed my new Lite on Cd rw x40 speed.
Ordered it from Dabs.com came nextday with free delivery. Great service.

The lite on cd Rw has done the business straight away using clone cd. Just uplugged old drive stuck the Lite on in fired the disks in and away it went.

One perfect back up all for £80 quid cant be bad. Damm does it write fast compared to my old 4x Teac drive..... hmmm joy at last.

Also treated myself to a new maxtor 120gb hd 7200 drive :-)

I tried copying MOHAA with a lite-on 24102B, using clonyxxl and clonecd. It didn't work.
Do you think I may need to update my firmware in my cd writer?

Did you enable Hide CD-R Media in the Clone CD Tray

well everyone is entitled to their opinions, once everyone has voiced theirs, the buyer should decied on their own accord

Yes, I enabled Hide CDR Media, it makes no difference