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dhlucke   09-09-2002 at 03:25:25 AM

Ok, I know I've seen this somewhere....

I now have this huge hard drive and don't want to burn all these new cd's that I happen to have. What I'd rather do is just use that program that loads an image of the cd as if the cd was in the drive.

Anyone know what I'm talking about? What I'm really curious about is a. what's it called, and b. what kind of images is it using? Is it using a proprietary type of image file or is it an image that I could later use to burn the image to a cd with nero or cloneCD?

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varlo   09-09-2002 at 03:38:20 AM
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Look in <A HREF="http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_utils.shtml" target="_new">here</A>,you'll find what your looking for !!

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lagger   09-09-2002 at 03:38:38 AM
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If I understand you correctly you will need to first create an image of the cd and save it then get Daemon tools or similar and you can run the image from that on a virtual cd drive the software creates <A HREF="http://go.to/gamefix" target="_new"> link </A>

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varlo   09-09-2002 at 03:42:02 AM
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As far as I know Daemon only create a virtual cd drive, that emulate cd protect codes, to be able to load a copied cd...but again I might be wrong here!!

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lagger   09-09-2002 at 03:57:16 AM
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I was under the impression you could run the image directly with but that may no longer be the case .. I have gotten so good at making clone cd copies with the protection intact and still usable that I have never tried it for myself

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lagger   09-09-2002 at 03:58:55 AM
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I was under the impression it would load the images and play them ... might be wrong as I have been able to make perfect copies of everything so far with clone cd so far and I have never tried it

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dhlucke   09-09-2002 at 04:13:00 AM
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Thanks to both of you. I'm off to eat dinner and then I'll read up on this.

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Yahiko81   09-09-2002 at 04:28:03 PM
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You didn't want somehting like wininstall did you? You know where you can install the program and customize it and then make it into a package?

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svol   09-09-2002 at 09:35:05 PM
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Maybe with Nero 5.5 and Nero Imagedrive you can copy a CD to a virtual CD on your HD instead of a CDRW... but you can't bypass protection this way.

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FatBurger   09-09-2002 at 11:54:33 PM
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Daemon Tools will do that. It creates another CD drive (careful, the drive letters can overlap, it doesn't check to see if the letter is being used), and then loads up the CD image as if it's a real CD.

Not that I've ever used it for playing games I don't own or anything.

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dhlucke   09-10-2002 at 01:51:16 AM
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I was reading up on the web too and found this: <A HREF="http://www.cdrom-emulator.com/n_cde_requir.htm" target="_new">cdrom-emulator</A>

What I really want is, of course, something that can avoid all the hastles of having to burn all these cd's when I can just image them to my hard drive, BUT also, a program that uses image files that I later CAN burn to a cd if I want to.

So the reason I posted this link is that it seems to use .iso images. That way not only can I run my virtual drives, but I can burn the program at lan parties etc.

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Flamethrower205   09-10-2002 at 02:09:23 AM
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Daemon tools is great. search for it in google, it runs anything, and has antiprotection crap, it's awesome.

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dhlucke   09-10-2002 at 03:18:55 AM
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Quote :

DAEMON Tools doesn't contain it's own dumping engine to create CD/DVD images - it uses the images of many popular burning programs (like e.g. FantomCD, Simdisc, Disc Juggler, CloneCD, Blindwrite, DiscDump, CDRWin and others). And this is one of DAEMON Tools' biggest advantages - you can immediately mount a created image of your CD as a virtual DVDROM!



This sounds about right. I'll try this out with some cloneCD images.

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dhlucke   09-16-2002 at 03:05:52 AM
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Anyone know how I can make image files of a DVD and use it with Daemon Tools? CloneCD won't do it and I can't figure out how to do it with Nero.

I'm trying to do it for Riven. Allthough movies would be nice as well.

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dhlucke   09-16-2002 at 02:55:38 PM
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DVD Decrypter was the answer. Rips DVD's to ISO.

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