Trying to Back Up Alice. "Read CD" always hangs, then fails. Help?

[Artagel]

I am using Nero. When I put CD1 into my PCDVD-Rom and a blank CD-r into my Creative Blaster 8432 drive, and I use the "Copy CD" function, no matter what settings I change, the Read just hangs and eventually fails at 0% or 1% read. I am not using "on the fly" either.