Disk Not Recognised - Won't Load Game (UPDATED)
Ancient Sim:
All this talk of pirates is totally confusing me. I have to install the game from the cd first, before I can use Game Jackal to make a profile, and I won't be able to do that if the CD-ROM drive can't read it. I don't think Game Jackal can run the game before I've actually installed it, because you have to put the registration number and everything in and set it all up.
jsalemi:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2006 September 20, 09:08:22
All this talk of pirates is totally confusing me. I have to install the game from the cd first, before I can use Game Jackal to make a profile, and I won't be able to do that if the CD-ROM drive can't read it. I don't think Game Jackal can run the game before I've actually installed it, because you have to put the registration number and everything in and set it all up.
I believe JMP is talking about getting the cd image via other means. :)
That actually saved my butt -- I installed Glamour Life just fine, but when it was time to start the game, it just absolutely refused to see the CD in any of my 3 drives (a DVD-Rom, DVD writer, and CD writer). The disk image that was posted here + daemon tools let me play with my perfectly legal copy. I hate copy protection schemes -- always have and always will. >:(
jrd:
The only people negatively affected by copy protection are the legal customers.
Pirates bypass the CP from the start, but people who pay the ridicilously high price also have to suffer with broken merchandise. At least EA Games isn't Ubisoft stupid enough to use StarForce spyware....
J. M. Pescado:
There's also the obvious fact that forcing people to study the ways of pirates makes them that much more likely to turn pirate themselves.
jrd:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2006 September 20, 05:47:07
(...) 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.
Huh? Boot.ini is just a text file which tells NTDetect.com where to look for Windows. You can usually just copy&paste it from another system or write it from scratch.
Most boot.ini files look like this:
Code:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
Just replace the Pro string with "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" for the budget version. Or don't, since it doesn't matter at all what is in there unless you multiboot.
Unless your Windows is NOT on the first partition of the first HDD on the first ATA interface, you can use the above file.
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