please post your cd-burner info. once we have this, we can begin to help you. the basic idea is to put the cd in the drive, have clonyxxl look for a protection, and then have clony pass the correct settings onto clonecd, which will then read and write your cd. i can tell you that the sims is safedisc 1, and livin large is either safedisc 1 or 2.05. i cant remember which.