You've already got the best, there is no others can beat CloneCD yet. You may need a good CD reader to improve reading speed, almost all normal CD-ROMs won't read subchannel info, so if you experience long reading time, it either because your CD reader is slow or not capable for such operation. for a good reader, look for CloneCD list, all Toshiba DVD drives are high recommended (I have one, and very happy with it). There is not much you can do about write speed, it is depending on how fast your cd writer is, and how good it is. later copy-protection can make great difficulty for backup, sometimes, you have to slow down (or the program has to) write speed in order to get the job right. Jun Qian ----- Original Message ----- From: "A&C Thompson" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:12 AM Subject: [PCSOFT] Need CD Burner Software > Hi all, > > I need to find a good software program that will copy CD's exactly. I have Clone CD, but it seems very slow > lately - (one hour to write an image file and another 1/2 hour to burn the cd??). I also have Easy CD Creator > 4, but I'll be darned if I can configure it to make exact copies. Of course, freeware is good, and shareware > is fine, but either way it must copy exactly. ( Just for the record: I'm making backups of > personally-purchased software - nothing illegal IMHO ). Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions... Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcsoft.shtml