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Posted by gecko on July 27, 2008, 9:37 am
Please log in for more thread options folder, say 'CDCOPY'. I also have a program that expects CDs that it reads to be on a disk in a disk drive. That is, selecting the program's 'read CD' option causes the program to read from a disk drive directly with no intervening options as to the target. Is there any way in XP PRO SP2 that I can associate (my word) the hard drive folder CDDOPY with the disk drive letter to fake out the program to access the hard drive folder instead? Just wondering and hoping.............. -GECKO | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by John McGaw on July 27, 2008, 10:37 am
Please log in for more thread options Do a google search for "mount CD image" (without the quotes) for your answer. This was a common dodge for people seeking to use bootleg copies of games (or just to get around the requirement that a game CD be present in the drive even if it wasn't being used for anything) and soon thereafter the game makers started protecting against it by various means. So that means that one may easily make an ISO file look like a real CD drive to the operating system it may not prove acceptable the any programs one tries to run from that virtual drive. -- John McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] http://johnmcgaw.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by gecko on July 27, 2008, 11:41 am
Please log in for more thread options wrote:
>Do a google search for "mount CD image" (without the quotes) for your
>answer. This was a common dodge for people seeking to use bootleg copies of >games (or just to get around the requirement that a game CD be present in >the drive even if it wasn't being used for anything) and soon thereafter >the game makers started protecting against it by various means. So that >means that one may easily make an ISO file look like a real CD drive to the >operating system it may not prove acceptable the any programs one tries to >run from that virtual drive. I did. It appears to me that I will have to make an ISO or UIF image of my hard drive folder's contents in order to make things work? I can't seem to mount the folder otherwise. Right? Thanks -GECKO | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on July 27, 2008, 12:59 pm
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>wrote:
> >>Do a google search for "mount CD image" (without the quotes) for your
>>answer. This was a common dodge for people seeking to use bootleg copies of >>games (or just to get around the requirement that a game CD be present in >>the drive even if it wasn't being used for anything) and soon thereafter >>the game makers started protecting against it by various means. So that >>means that one may easily make an ISO file look like a real CD drive to the >>operating system it may not prove acceptable the any programs one tries to >>run from that virtual drive. >
>I did. It appears to me that I will have to make an ISO or UIF image >of my hard drive folder's contents in order to make things work? I >can't seem to mount the folder otherwise. Right? > >Thanks >-GECKO Yes, AFAIK you need to re-rip the original CD to a CD image, then mount it with something like Daemon Tools. Otherwise there's no way to virtualize the CD, though I suppose you could try to make an ISO and put the files into it with a 3rd party application but then it may not fool the application that wants the CD, as it may not be looking only for a CD with files. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by gecko on July 27, 2008, 1:18 pm
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>Yes, AFAIK you need to re-rip the original CD to a CD image,
>then mount it with something like Daemon Tools. Otherwise >there's no way to virtualize the CD, though I suppose you >could try to make an ISO and put the files into it with a >3rd party application but then it may not fool the >application that wants the CD, as it may not be looking only >for a CD with files. Thanks for info -GECKO | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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> folder, say 'CDCOPY'. I also have a program that expects CDs that it
> reads to be on a disk in a disk drive. That is, selecting the
> program's 'read CD' option causes the program to read from a disk
> drive directly with no intervening options as to the target.
>
> Is there any way in XP PRO SP2 that I can associate (my word) the hard
> drive folder CDDOPY with the disk drive letter to fake out the program
> to access the hard drive folder instead?
>
> Just wondering and hoping..............
>
> -GECKO