[Rictor]

Alright, so.

I'm installing something, which comes on 3 CDs, and instead of burning it I thought I'de use Daemon Tools to mount the images, like I have done many times before. The problem is that when its gets to the "Please Insert CD 2" part, it simply refuses to recognize that CD 2 is mounted. You have the little OK and Cancel buttons, but it acts like there's no CD in the virtual drive, which clearly there is.

I tried this with Daemon Tools and Alcohol 120%, but both have the same problem. I even tried mounting CD 3 to see if maybe they were mis-labeled. But still nothing. The problem is that I can't burn just CD 2, I have to burn all of them because the drive letter has to be the same throughout. And thats something I would like to avoid is possible.

Help.

[Ghostavo]

This something could be detecting the emulation software and be ignoring it... so burn all of them, or uninstall the one that is being detected (if both aren't) and use just one... it's probably Alcohol 120%

[Rictor]

At the beggining, I had only D Tools, so I''ll try uninstalling that and only using Alcohol 120%.

Though if its detecting the emulation program, why did the first CD work then?

[Ghostavo]

Good point...

Why can't you burn all of them?

[Rictor]

I can. Its just that its takes a little while, and being the lazy bastards that I am...

[karajorma]

Just unmount the first CD once you've installed from it and then mount CD2. Basically the same as using the eject button on a real CD.

I had to do that with my original "demo" version of Rome : Total War. Pretty stupid really. You'd think that people would have considered the possibility that someone might one day have more than one CD drive.

[Rictor]

That's what I've been doing kara, sorry I should have mentioned that.

Mount CD1 > Install > Asks for CD2 > Unmount CD1 > Mount CD2 > no go

[Taristin]

Sims2 wouldn't install for me because it kept claiming it was detecting cd drive emulation... even though I was running it off the disks...

[Ghostavo]

The Sims 2 detects Alcohol 120% and two other emulation softwares... bloody annoying thing...

[Taristin]

I had neither...

[Ghostavo]

It detects NERO, CloneCD, Roxio Easy CD, amongst others...

[Taristin]

Nero... yes. Well. Screw EA if they won't let me have CD Authoring software as well as their crappy product.

[Vertigo1]

Originally posted by Raa
Nero... yes. Well. Screw EA if they won't let me have CD Authoring software as well as their crappy product.

Yeah, it annoys the hell out of me that I can't rip an ISO of B1942 with Nero6 without getting a bunch of errors.  I could download the CD crack, but I'm too lazy for that.  I own the damn game, and I don't feel like sticking the CD every damn time I want to play it.  I'd rather have the ISO sitting on my drive so I can just point DT to it and launch at my leisure.   Screw you EA for mucking with my right to a backup copy.

[Rictor]

status update:

I've burned all 3 CDs, and the second one STILL refuses to work. I even burned it twice, just to make sure it wasn't a scratch or something.

any ideas? I'm fresh out. I could just un-zip them (so to speak) using WinIso, but the installation only asks for whole disks, you can't actually point it to specific files.

I refuse to believe that I will just have to throw it all out and start downloading from scratch.

[WMCoolmon]

Mount them, copy the VPs and the EXEs to a new folder, and run the launcher.

[Rictor]

barrel o' laughs, man, barrel o' laughs.

[pyro-manic]

I've had some stuff I that just refused to work like that. Most annoying...

[Liberator]

rebuild the ISO.  copy all the files out and rebuild it using Deep Burner(it's free).  That way you can locate the offending file if nothing else and it might also correct possible errors in the ISO itself.

[Rictor]

Thanks Lib, I'll give it a shot. [l]Since you seem to know your way around this program, is there a way to put files directly into the CD root, without having it placed in any sub-folders? There are 3 files (basically the autorun stuff) that are outside any folder.[/l]

edit: OK, I figured it out.

[Rictor]

Got nothing!