Lo Cracker...
Thanks for the reply - here's some follow up info on the situation...
Somewhere along the lines of today - my computer has decided to detect another CD Writer!!! Not quite sure how, or indeed why, but it wasnt there last night, and is today, I've now disabled it, as removing it seems to cause it to be reinstalled everytime I reboot? Weird....the only thing I've installed today was the CDPS thing that I mentioned in the first post....it looks like my CD Writer, but its called V386 PHANTOM SCSI CD WRITER 1.0f..
ANYWAY!! back to the plot...
SO, I've now tried this 'friggin' game several times, and I'm convinced its crashing my computer to spite me
I've tried Clone CD many times now today, I've tried using the CD Writer to actually READ the CD too, but on 2 occasions it got to 55% and then 61% respectively, and then seemed to stop, and do nothing, the only thing that was still moving was the timer telling me how long it had taken, the CD Writer lights were just 1 green, and the one that shows activity had gone out, and stayed out for some time.
I've burnt another CD today, with something on it for my daughter, so I know that the system as a whole is ok - as this worked fine.
I've also tried reading the CD from the main CD Rom drive, but again, its getting about half way and then stopping, and there is no way to come back out of this, apart from rebooting the machine, as the 'cancel' button wont stop it etc...
I've tried using Nero today too, but again, that ended up the same way..
I've not tried Blind Read/Write yet, as I had a load of problems whilst trying to use that once before...it would make the images, but then couldnt seem to burn them to the CD's? I've probably got an older version than the current one too I expect...
I've since installed the game from the original and played it, it looks quite good, but this was really just a test to make sure that the original was indeed ok.
I'll try a few more things, but I'm getting to the point of giving up now...
This game is actually in the CloneCD database thing too btw - its called America : Beyond the front line (I think).
I've tried the settings that supplies, but I have to read it in my CD Writer to do the 'sub channel' stuff, as my CD Rom doesnt support it, and basically now just go back to the beginning of my posting and read again
(just like those old basic programs!)
Anyway....
I'll plod on and see what happens, least I havent wasted any CD's yet, as I cant even get to the 'burning' stage...
The games got 'Data Becker' stamped all over the box and stuff, anyone else had any experiences with products from these people??
Thanks again in advance for further replies, and help..
Respectfully
Robb Meade