QUESTION ABOUT PATCHING RA2

[burner boy]

Ive looked at a lot of posts about the patching of this game,im trying to patch the allied cd and i have done all what the instructions said and read the posts about "the please insert cd " message but ijust cant get round it.Ive tried to change the exe file to archive but i get amessage saying that it wont let me.But when i apply the patch on the hardrive the attributes are normal and its archive ,but when ive burn't it and go to install it it wont let me change it to archive.It seems to patch ok cause i get the message to now burn to a cd when i patch.I use wincommander to copy to my HD and ive tried cdrwin & easy cd creator to burn , i ve not done much patching so if anybody can help i would appreciate it , usually i just clone everything so this is driving me nuts!!!!!!.