Disk Not Recognised - Won't Load Game (UPDATED)
Frankenbeasley:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2006 September 20, 14:36:44
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.
Do pirates use CD-Aarrrr? Possibly CD-Aarrrr Doubloon...
Ancient Sim:
OK, we might just be getting somewhere here. I've done a lot of fiddling about and one of the things I did was download some Nero checker thing. When it tried to access the cd-drive, it came up with an error message that I'd seen before when all this trouble started. This is it:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\S32EVNT1.dll. An installable Virtual Device Driver failed Dll initialization. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application
I hit ignore instead and discovered that the Nero checker thingy said there was no cd in Drive E (there was). Entered the above error in Google and found a Microsoft page which gave instructions to remove a key from the Registry. Did this and stopped getting the error. I then went into the Registry and did a search for Symantec entries and removed them all, except a group it refused to let me delete which ha to do with drivers. No change to my cd-drive, but the Game Jackal image no longer worked, it kept asking for the cd.
I have now gone back to yesterday with System Restore and Game Jackal is working again, so it seems that deleting either the key relating to the above error, or the other Symantec stuff, has affected it. Could this possibly have to do with the CD not working? It seems unlikely as I hadn't altered anything on the pc or downloaded anything, but it seems odd that I can't delete some of the keys, plus I have this Symantec program (Symantec Network Drivers Service) in services.msc that I have no way of removing and it will appear in start-up if I don't disable it ... the strange thing is, I removed Norton Anti-Virus & Firewall at least two months ago and have NO Symantec products on my pc now at all. Of course, it does come bundled with the pc and is no doubt hidden in the restore files somewhere, but that doesn't explain why it will put itself into my start-up folder if I enable it in services.msc. It's the word "drivers" that bothers me, because that's what the error was all about.
I've run a virus check and Ad-Aware, but nothing came up with those. The only thing I can't do is see if the cd-drive is working in Safe Mode because I can't get into it. Everytime I try, the splash screen disappears before I have chance to select anything and Windows just starts up.
Li'l Brudder:
I've heard of Nero causing problems before. I just can't remember from where I heard it. I'm pretty sure it was here.
Found it! Here you go, Ancient: Here it is!
And here are a few more:
Here Are a Few More 1,
Here Are a Few More 2
And, as a footnote, you wouldn't BELIEVE how many generous search results I found. At least a million.
Ancient Sim:
I don't actually have Nero (the trial ran out), it was just a tool I downloaded today to check the drive with. I can't remember what it's called because it's gone now as I did the System Restore to the day before.
I still don't know how I am meant to put the non-existent furry EP on without a cd-drive that can read it, but maybe someone will explain it to me s-l-o-w-l-y and with great patience ... or maybe I will just get a new cd-drive. I still think there's some other problem causing it, but if I do a complete reinstall of XP I'll lose all my files as I can't save anything, unless I mess about doing it via file transfer ... maybe I will try to find a virtual drive online somewhere. Anybody know of a good (free) one? The main problem, of course, is whether my GameJackal profile would still work if I reinstalled XP, because if not I'd not be able to play the game at all and I'd go bananas.
J. M. Pescado:
Daemon Tools is the standard one favored for use by many.
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