Silent Hunter 3 + Starforce question

[t.foster73]

I did ask this question on another Forum, but got no proper answer. Have you got to install the game from the original cd, or can you do it from a backup cd? I only own 1 Starforce game (Trackamania), and had so much grief that I didn't buy another SF3 game. I notice that the Silent Hunter 3 crack doesn't tell you to use ST******ER to disable the IDE channels either. Does this work in a different way from other starforce cracks then?

It does appear from reading the Nforce Forums that the protection has been beaten on this game, and functions like a normal nocd fix, without the need for disabling CD ROM channels. can anyone confirm this?