HOW TO COPY A CD/DVD You can easily copy a Sims-CD for installation purposes, you cannot use it for playing the game however unless you also add a NoCD-crack to it. I always use the following method: Insert the original CD in your drive wait until it has started and select finish Search for the icon of your CD-player and right-click on it Select Explore Select a file at random and then use CTRL+A to highlight all files and folders Right-click and choose Copy Go to your desktop, create a new folder, open it, right-click and choose Paste Make a note of the CD-name (label), f.e. Sims2EP6 - very important ! You now have an almost exact copy of the CD/DVD on your desktop. Only the security-details are missing. When you burn the contents of the new folder from your Desktop on a new rewritable disk, you can use it for installing the game. If you want to make a disk for both installing and for playing you must do something extra prior to burning it to a blank disk Download a suitable NoCD-crack from this site or elsewhere from the internet Unpack the crack with Winrar Place the unpacked crack in the folder TSBin in your Desktop-folder You will receive a message that file already exists, overwrite ? - Yes Now burn the contents of the Desktop-folder to a blank CD/DVD and make sure you give it exactly the same name (label) as you have noted in item 7 above. You now have a new disk with the same possibilities as the original, or even better ! When you install the game with this disk, the NoCD-crack is already built-in, so you can play the game without a CD in your station.