How to read game CD

[gwlogue]

I bought my son a used small form factor PC, (Compaq), without realizing that a standard size CD drive will not fit in the drive bay (it did not come with a CD drive installed). He has a CD game, (Dogs of War), that requires the CD to be mounted to play. I've tried sharing one of the CD drives on my system through the network but it shows up as a disk rather than a CD on his system and the game does not recognize it. Is there some way to tell his system that the network device is a CD rather than an HD?

Thanks ...george

[Bigjakkstaffa]

As a long term albeit expensive solution i would start looking at external CDROM drives

--Jakk:t

[Giraffe }{unter]

First thing you should do is Map the drive so it shows up as a drive letter on his PC.

DISCLAIMER: Now I cannot go into detail on the rest because it's a touchy situation with the rules, and I deeply appologise if I break one.

Due to the disc checking technology if you do not have the ORIGINAL disc in the PC it will not run. There is an application that fools this called Daemon tools. I won't provide a link or directions, but it will allow you to run games with the CD on the hard drive (ie. mapped drive) or a backup copy.

need more help PM

[gwlogue]

I've considered taking one of my internal drives and installing it externally. I think it will work if I remove the case and run the power and ribbon cables outside, and drill some screems into the frames to ground it.

[gwlogue]

I have mapped the CD as a network drive on his system, and we have the original game cd, (it was a Xmas present). The game does not recognize the drive as a CD.

I got a copy of Daemon Tools but it wants to see an image copy. When I point it at the mapped CD it only sees data files.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

I think its possibel to set up a virtual CDROM drive in ram or HDD or sumink, i dont really remember details but a friend of mine used to do it on some o his less legitemate CD's... i'll axe him bout it - problem is he's one elusive bugger nowadays :mad:

--Jakk:t

[Baddog]

I forgot how I did it a year ago...but I copied the cd onto the hard drive "C" through the the 2 networked computers and had a program that let it read off the hard drive when the game called for it .:confused:

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Just caught him - apparently Daemon tools will let you do it

--Jakk:t

[Giraffe }{unter]

I replied to you PM read the manual section I suggested thats what you want (i think)

[clippmanta]

Download CloneCD, Read said CD to Image file(best to make a directory for your Images)Image will be saved as *.CCD file, run Daemon Tools and guide it to your saved image files.Mount Image as CD. It is also a good idea to use DaemonUI, makes it easier. Legal as long as you have the original cd. When you want to play a game click DaemonUI load Image then start game.:cool:


Get CloneCD here:
http://elby.ch/english/products/clone_cd/index.html
Get DaemonUI here:
http://www.hbreitner.de/daemonui/download.htm

[gwlogue]

CloneCD and DaemonUI did the trick. Thanks ...george