[gerhard]

I guess I'm in the right street, I have an MSI CDRW 40X12X48 and that is all that is on the box (its six months old and MSI are now manufacturing mother boards), it may be rebadged but can't find anything on it on the web regarding what are its limits/capabitities. That's problem (1) problem (2) is that using Clony XXL to identify SimCity3000 Unlimited and then Detect CD to identify the 'switches' find that I should be using CDR Win to burn. I'm using Clone CD to burn and am not getting the desired result. Clone CD copies the image file and it burns to disc but the game won't load correctly using my copy and installing patches.
Are my problems too big for you?
Gerhard