ello mate, right, ive succesfully made a backup of THPS 2, the software i used was NTI CDmaker 2000 pro, very straight forward to use, comes with a wizard to help you, all you do is click back up and put your original cd in your reader, and your blank in the writer, mine was the uk version of THPS 2, and it worked first time, anymore problems, contact me at my e mail addy, flibble1974**********com