Disk Not Recognised - Won't Load Game (UPDATED)
Ancient Sim:
Yesterday when I put my OFB disk into the drive, it wasn't recognised. I took it out and put it back and it worked. Today, the same thing happened again and after several tries I had to give up and use my Game Jackal profile (which I tend to avoid now as I've used it so often it takes forever to go through all the numbers). The disk worked fine on my son's computer and probably would have on my daughter's too, except that's even more poorly than this one insofar as it won't boot-up, apparently because the boot.ini file has been deleted and we have no XP Home disk to get it back, only an XP Pro which won't work. But that's another problem ...
Anyway ... I tried a disk I'd put some data on and that worked, so did a disk with MP3 files on it, but none of my pre-recorded disks worked, not TS2 ones or any others. Now, NO disks work. The drive seems to be trying to read them, but after it's made a few noises it just stops dead. I've tried using System Restore and various things like that, but nothing works. The computer is only about 3 months old, so I can't see that the drive would fail that quickly - the ones on my other pc's are years old and they've never gone wrong. All the other pc's have two, but unfortunately this only has one. It's called a DVD-RW drive and when I put the details into Google, one link said that it's not really meant for cd's only dvd's (that person's had stopped working, too), but surely they're both the same in terms of playing a disk?
I'm a bit concerned with JM always going on about cd-drives blowing-up, not to mention the fact that the EP that doesn't exist is due out shortly. I don't want to be without the pc if I can help it and I'm just wondering if there could be some corrupted file or whatever. I do have a full restore facility, but I don't want to reformat unless I have to. I know how to share files between the pc's, but I've still not worked out how to delete stuff from one and leave it on the other (if you even can), so I'd have to mess about putting all my neighbourhoods & downloads onto a cd on my son's computer, which would be a pain.
I do have several spare drives I could swop it with, except I've never been inside a computer in my life, plus they're all a horrible creamy-white and mine is nice and black (they'd look stupid on my tower) and I'd invalidate the guarantee by doing that anyway. I just wondered really if it sounds like the problem is with the drive itself or something that's gone wrong with a file or something. It seems odd that my own recorded disks worked when the bought ones didn't, which makes me wonder if somehow the drive wasn't recognising something it should have to do with copyrigiht protection or whatever. Then again, none of them work now, so maybe not.
BlueSoup:
It does sound like you have something interfering with copyright, sorta. But I am no computer expert, I'm just basing it on my own lousy personal experience.
I had Daemon installed, and then it wouldn't let me install the game when I had to reinstall. So after I uninstalled Daemon it all worked fine. :-\ I'm not saying that's your problem or that deleting it temporarily will fix it, but it can't hurt.
Avalikia:
It sounds to me like it's hardware related, not software related. At my house we've had a couple of new DVD players refusing to play anything within weeks of purchase (and since they've all had a warranty we just keep replacing them) with similar symptoms to what you're describing. Of course, these were DVD players and not DVD-RWs, and I'm not too familiar with those so I could be wrong. I'd be more inclined to blame the software if the decline hadn't been so gradual; since it went through of phase of some working and some not I'm inclined to agree that, since it was designed to run DVDs, that the CDs gradually wore out/broke/etc. something. If you don't get a better reply overnight (my time) I'll run the situation past my dad (a computer programmer and general go-to guy) and see what he thinks.
BlueSoup:
I had the same problem as you once too, Avalikia and it turned out to be the software for the CD burner. I took it to the repair shop and they reinstalled that and it worked fine afterwards.
J. M. Pescado:
This routinely happens. Copy protection relies on the extreme corner cases of what a CD can do, all of which is inherently outside the specifications for what CDs are SUPPOSED to do. Thus, sometimes they just don't work. And this is why copy protection is a load of bunkus. Also, new "protections" are extremely nosy and try to dictate what you can and can't have even installed on your computer. Just forget about it, hoist the Jolly Roger, and play on.
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