Has anyone backed up Aoe2 or any other safedisk games?

[Mongoose]

I am fairly new to the CD writer, but learn fast. However, I am not sure how to copy safedisk protected games to actually play the game from the CD. I have found out that you can't copy a CD to the hard drive, change the .exe file with unsafedisk software and burn it all to the CD. Please give me detailed instructions on how to go about making a copy, particularly Aoe2 for PC. I have tried to use Clone CD, CDRWIN, ETC. Nothing seems to work. My writer is an ACER 10x4x32 DAO.