Help for a novice???
 

Please help me understand whats going on with cd's. I use Adaptec easy cd creator which came with my new dell computer. I have a sony writer and a samsung reader. I can make backups of my CAD programs and any other stuff with absolutly No problems. PSX games are a little trickyer but PC games seem impossible for me. If You are simply copying the data from one cd and making a replica cd how does a PC know the difference???? why are patches required??? are there files which the computer WONT copy?? when trying to make backup of unreal tournament it says it cant read sectors 810 to 836 and illegal command request????
PLEASE HELP ME UNDERSTAND WHATS GOING ON!!!!!

PC Games are protect. So you must use special burn programs which can burn protected games like clonecd or blindwrite.These programs burn a really 1 : 1 copy of your game. You can find them here http://www.blindwrite.com and http://www.elby.com

ok m8 - bottom line - cd writers are usually bundled with EZCD creator for 2 reasons - 1st - its easy to use for beginners - stuff like copying audio cd's etc - no problems. 2nd its cack for copying games and other good stuff.

There are LOADS of cool burning programs out there and everyone has their favourites. Most can be found as demo's on the internet or from the cd utils part of game copy world.

As for your hardware - Im not familiar with samsung readers, but i guess it should be ok. The sony burner is EXCELLENT. Along with clonecd you should be able to back up most programs/ games without the need for patches etc. You will come unstuck trying to copy games that have SAFEDISK2 copy protection - the sony wont do it - but there are ways around that too.

I hope this has been helpful - u got my email if u need any more help.