I'm new to burning protected CDs. First of all, will my Sony CRX175A work with the ClonyXXL and CloneCD software? I am running XP with ASPI v. 4.60. Not sure which settings to use within the software. Any info will be appreciated.

Thanks!!

It will work with Cloney and according to the CloneCD web page it should work well with CloneCD. It will copy most games out there, but the new stuff protected by the latest protections can not be copied by any drive at the momment.

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Thanks Tron.
How long should the burn take on average if I choose cd to cd? My CDR/RW is a 24x10x40. Are we talking about 10-20 mins or 1 hr?
Is it normal if the buffer level reaches 100% but it drops to 0% immediately thereafter? It seems to go through the process and tells me that copy has been successfully made. Cannot access the copy and what's weird is that Easy CD Creator shows it as a blank cd.
I'm kinda lost now.

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A lot depends on the protection on the original you are backing up. SD2 protected disc will take some time to read. Also I suggest that if you are backing up protected games that you read the image to the hard drive first then write it off the hard drive to a CD. Use your liteon as a reader and the writer, it is good at both. Make sure you follow the settings that Cloney tells you to. Also would help if you tell us the name of the game you are trying to backup.

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Tron,

The game that I'm trying to make a backup copy is Battlefield 1942. Let me try your suggestion and I'll get back to you.
Thanks.

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Tron,
After making about a half dozen coasters, I've finally figured out what my problem was. For those of you who may have similar problem as I had, I hope this is informative.
As it is list as one of the compatible drives on the CCD site, my Sony CRX175A was working properly and wasn't the problem at all. Let me explain briefly what I was experiencing. In making a copy, I ran the ClonyXXL to first determine the type of protection and launched CCD from the ClonyXXL interface. Went through all the steps to actually start the copying process in CCD. The buffer level reached 100%. So far so good. My problem was that, after the buffer level reached its full status and the actual burning started, at about 3%, the buffer level started dropping significantly...90, 80, 50, 30, 10, 5%...and to 0%. Even though the recording indicator progressed to 4, 5, and so on, the buffer indicator didn't seem to come back up. It would take over 30 mins for the indicator to reach 100% and even spit out the cd saying that the recording was successful. To my dismay, when I tried to read the copy, it was unreadable and didn't allow me to access the contents.
After noticing that my friend who was successfully making copies had his buffer constantly stay above 90% throughout the burning process, I figured that was where my problem was. To make the long story short, it was my reader that caused the problem...a generic 56x cdrom. When I used my Toshiba DVD drive, the buffer stayed up. To even further optimize the burning process, I made my CDRW a secondary master w/ no slave attached, my DVD drive a primary master off of a PCI IDE controller. I basically had dedicated controllers for each device. That seemed to knock off a good 30 seconds off the burning process.
Thanks. Hope this helps someone.

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