this is my first time please help!!!

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The first thing I would do is get yourself some decent software.

Easy CD is crap for just about everything in my experience (I know some people love it, but I ain't one of them)

Get yourself a nice copy of Nero (htttp://www.ahead.de) it'll do your non modchip protected games really well, and will also do your PC backups nicely, and all your music nicely. You can even burn MP3 to CD on the fly without converting to *.wav first

You'll also need a copy of CDRwin from Golden Hawk (http://www.goldenhawk.com)
It's not my favourite piece of software, but it seems to be everyone else's! and it's the only burning software you can use patches with, so it's pretty essential really if you're going to be burning PS games.