question on backups/1:1 copies

[Joshua Wood]

Hi all,

I have recently brought a LiteOn 40125S drive, and tried to backup Age of Mythology and UT2003...

The copies work for installing, but are not recognised as originals when I try to play them...the no cd .exe works of course....

I'm new to all of this, and used Clone CD and Cloney XXL...

Question: What exactly is meant by a 1:1 copy? I'm guessing it means it is an exact copy...but can it be used as an "original" disk to play the game without a no cd .exe? Are there some games where you can have an exact 1:1 copy, but you still can't use the backed up version? (ie, it checks for the cdr media type, or something)?

(I'm just wondering if my backups were 1:1...)


Can you backup AoM and UT2003 perfectly so that the cdr will be detected as the original valid cd? If you can, I must have done something wrong...

If you can do this, does this mean the whole copy protection has also been copied, and is so perfect that it thinks the backup is the original?
And in my case, is it that the data is a perfect copy, since it installs ok (or does the copy protection have no effect on this?), but the protection can detect it is not an original, since the protection hasn't been copied perfectly....?

(I'm a bit confused

Cheers for any help!
Josh