Burning CD Check games

[Hexagram]

I have games that are protected by CD Check. My burning software of choice is Alcohol 120%, but I don't know what kind of datatype to use to burn it, and Alcoholer and other such programs aren't working for me. Can anyone just tell me what datatype to use for CD Check games? Or if Alcohol is the right program to use for this kinda protection?

[Crypton]

Just standard CD-Checks or protections such as SafeDisc? For standard CD-Checks, you can simply burn it to CD/DVD. You can alternatively also use the option to "hide media type" this way after the disc is burned, it will hide that it was a CD-R/RW DVD-R/RW, some protection will check to see if it was using burnable media or an origional distro disc.

[Hexagram]

Just standard CD-Checks or protections such as SafeDisc? For standard CD-Checks, you can simply burn it to CD/DVD. You can alternatively also use the option to "hide media type" this way after the disc is burned, it will hide that it was a CD-R/RW DVD-R/RW, some protection will check to see if it was using burnable media or an origional distro disc.
I tried simply burning it and everytime I go to access the disc, it says it's not formatted to run with windows. I've tried it on various datatypes with Alcohol 120% and I don't want to keep wasting discs using trial-and-error.

If it means anything, the particular game in question is "Hexen II". If any Alcohol users can tell me what datatype to burn that on (if Alcohol even has that kind of datatype or if I need to use another program altogether) then I'll be all set.

[Crypton]

I tried simply burning it and everytime I go to access the disc, it says it's not formatted to run with windows. I've tried it on various datatypes with Alcohol 120% and I don't want to keep wasting discs using trial-and-error.

That has nothing to do with the cd-checks, that is something wrong with your burner. Or you are doing something completly wrong during the copy/image/burning process. Try doing CD to CD (on the fly) copy. But there may be something wrong with your burner as saying "not formatted to run on windows" is a common error when formatting a standard disk such as a floppy disk.

Be aware as well, if you are using Alcohol 120% Trial and have not bought it (unlocked it to be full version) it will not alow you to burn anything larger than like 200MB or something like that, which can cause the same errors your seeing as it would stop burning real data after the "trial limit" so if you have a 600-700MB CD worth of data, you may only be getting 200MB of it and it will be an incomplete burn.

[Hexagram]

That has nothing to do with the cd-checks, that is something wrong with your burner. Or you are doing something completly wrong during the copy/image/burning process. Try doing CD to CD (on the fly) copy. But there may be something wrong with your burner as saying "not formatted to run on windows" is a common error when formatting a standard disk such as a floppy disk.

Be aware as well, if you are using Alcohol 120% Trial and have not bought it (unlocked it to be full version) it will not alow you to burn anything larger than like 200MB or something like that, which can cause the same errors your seeing as it would stop burning real data after the "trial limit" so if you have a 600-700MB CD worth of data, you may only be getting 200MB of it and it will be an incomplete burn.
I can't do it from CD to CD because I only have one CD drive, and I don't have the original CD anymore. The game in question is now just in CCD format (not acquired illegally though, but I can't prove that to you).

I've never had a hard time burning anything with Alcohol 120% before (and I do have the full version)...so the only reason why I think it's saying it's not formatted for windows is cuz I chose the wrong datatype (I usually only use Alcohol for image burning Playstation backups, which is a lot easier, so I've never burned PC games or software before, so I don't exactly know what I'm doing). I don't have enough CD-R's to keep going through all the necessary datatypes by trial and error, plus the act of doing so would be ludicrous.