Re: ISO image help needed

Thank you to you 4 for your responses.
AJR - I tried your idea, copied the DVD to HD but was unable to mount this
copy to the Virtual CD-ROM.
The Virtual Drive was looking for these
a.. b5t (BlindWrite images)
b.. b6t (BlindWrite images)
c.. bwt (BlindRead images)
d.. ccd (CloneCD images)
e.. cdi (DiscJuggler images)
f.. cue (Cue sheets)
g.. iso (Standard ISO images)
h.. mds (Media Descriptor Files)
i.. nrg (Nero images)
j.. pdi (Instant CD/DVD images)
k.. isz (Compressed ISO images)
and the copy of the DVD was none of them.

John McGraw - a good point that I can understand (although I am not trying
to do anything "unreasonable") maybe my understanding (?) of the concept of
using Virtual Drives is too immature.

David B - I've already taken a brief look at "no cd patch" (unknown to me)
and will research further.

WindowsXpert - All that is going to take me some 'coming to terms with' but
I intend to follow your guidance, it will take me some time tho'.
I am very grateful

dfrog


"David B." <brooks.dj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Most original game CD's have some sort of protection on them, neither a
copy of the CD nor an image of the CD caries over this protection, thus
the game won't run. The workaround I use for most of my games is to use a
no cd patch, which replaces the games executable with a patched version
that does not require the original CD.

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"dfrog" <dfrog@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A VERY newbie with ISO images, and so far failing to get my head around it
all.



Granddaughter plays EA Sims2 Pets on my computer (WINXP Home) and has to
use the DVD each time to run it.



So, thinking I would simplify & maybe speed things up a bit, (and learn
something about Virtual Drives / ISO images at the same time) I created a
Virtual CDRom using Daemon Tools, created what I thought was an ISO image
using Nero6, but it came out as a .nrg Nero Disc Image which did not work
having mounted it. So I then used MagicISO to convert this Nero .nrg to
an ISO image and mounted it in Daemon Tools. All seemed Ok at this stage,
but when I try to run the program I get >> "Cannot Locate CD-ROM - Please
insert the correct CD-ROM, select OK and restart application."



Having failed there, I installed Magic Disc and mounted the image there,
but get the same result.



I'm sure that I'm probably missing something quite simple, but I've read
till my head spins and still can't manage to get this to work.



I'd appreciate some guidance please



Dfrog





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