Cd-rw And Game Cds??

[Dbol]

Hi team!

I am a newbie so I hop I dont to many flames for asking a stupid Q
Anyway I scored a Cyberdrive 16 X12 X 40 CD-RW for $72.00 from a CO at Pricewatch.com. I bought a "burner" for two reasons:
1. To free up some disk space on my busting drive
2. To make back-up copies of my expensive software (important when you have kids!)

So I manage to copy my files from my HD and make useable copies of my operating platform and office suite, so far so good. Then I tried to copy a couple of my games. Firstly when I started the "disk copy" Nero program that came bunddled with my drive if froze my computer, and I mean froze! neither the reset or the power switch would work, I had to unplug it and reboot.

Not to be out done, I thought I would bypass the copy program by first making a copy to my HD and then copying that file to CD. This seemed to do the job and the disk copied well. I then thought I would check the copy so I tried to install the game onto my computer and again no problem!. So I tried to play thr game and thats when it gave me the message " please insert XXX disk into cd drive. What I can gather is that the game loads fine until it calls for a little bit of video for the introduction.....it seems that my copied disk did not copy this file. I checked this theory by trying to write another game and same thing, it copies, it installs and it launches fine until the game calls for the video intro. On checking the size of these files I find that the original cd contains around 30 mb more than my copy.

So my Q is this, am I stupid and just cant operate my software of is this some kind of trick the publishers use to stop people copying games?? Is thereany way of bypassing the intro video so that the game can still run?

Any advice would be great team

THANKS!!!

DBOL

[crazyray]

Try Clone CD to back-up games and software. Some will still have problems, though. Check this link: http://www.cdrinfo.com/

[KennyPolo]

i bought the same drive a couple of weeks ago, it works great and all don't forget to upgrade your nero :D

so far ive had no problems with it, i didnt really like receiving about 8 instruction manuals though

the nero can copy basically anything.. games or software, theres no way to stop it

thats weird seeing the copy and the game having different sizes, did you try uninstalling and reinstalling using the original gaming cd?

[KennyPolo]

did you happen to stop the copying or do something that may have interrupted the copying?

such as.. you had several windows open while copying, running several progs whle copying, etc etc

sometimes that happens to people with old machines