Disk Not Recognised - Won't Load Game (UPDATED)
Ancient Sim:
I don't have the ASPI thing, that was the tool I meant that told me I hadn't got it. As for reinstalling Windows, that's basically what it will be doing, but when I did it before it removed all my files. I don't actually have an XP disk, it comes bundled with the PC. I do have an XP Pro disk that goes with my son's computer, but I don't think that would work on here as this one uses Home. Well I know it won't, because I tried it on my old PC once and it didn't work.
Something weird happened earlier. I clicked on the Logitech Camera folder in My Computer to check what was in it before I removed the Logitech stuff (my son put it on, I don't want the thing!) and for some reason, when I clicked "Play" it made the DVD-RW icon disappear. Probably just a coincidence, but I couldn't remove the Logitech Webcam software or driver in Add/Remove Programmes, I had to remove the former from the Uniinstall in the folder and I had to remove the driver folder manually. I don't think either of those is the culprit though, because I rolled back to before they were installed at one time and nothing changed.
Oh, and System Restore has basically deleted all my previous restore points for some reason. They were all there right from when I got the PC in May, so I suppose the file had reached its limit or something with all the extra ones I've been doing. Seems stupid to remove all of them, though.
RainbowTigress:
I had a problem similar to what you described with CDs not being read and the PC displaying the contents of CDs that had been removed from the drive. I thought I was going nuts because I had the CD in my hand, yet the computer kept displaying the contents even after refreshing. I could remove the device in Device Manager and have it redetect it, and it would work until I put the next CD in. My brother-in-law said it was a bad controller on the motherboard. I was also having problems with my mouse locking up sometimes when the CPU got to 100%, so he recommended a motherboard and helped me install it. It fixed both problems, but I had to reinstall Windows. I have two hard drives, and I keep all my data files on the secondary drive with only Windows and programs on C. That way, if I need to reformat, I can just wipe C and do a clean install.
I think it sucks that companies won't give you a Windows CD with your computer anymore. They think they are discouraging piracy that way. :P You can still download a CD image of Windows and burn it to a disk. They haven't stopped people from doing that yet. We'll see what happens with Vista, though. :-\
Ancient Sim:
I'm copying all my files onto XDrive at the moment, which is a VERY slow process, but I'm wondering now if I actually need to. The drive is partioned into two, one (C) and one (D) (100 gig each) and apparently all files on (C) will be lost (that's where Windows is, obviously), but it doesn't say the ones on (D) will, so it sounds as if they'll be OK. The actual XP files are all on (D) somewhere, that's what it uses to put them back.
From what you've just said though, it sounds as if reformatting isn't going to make much difference. As for downloading an image, that sounds most intriguing. Do they work with Game Jackal? Not that I would use one of course, I am just interested. Might be the only thing that would get my daughter's PC working again.
RainbowTigress:
You mean Windows or Sims? Windows images have to be burned to CD because the computer has to boot from it and run the computer from it. You can't run it from Daemon Tools because Daemon Tools requires Windows to be functioning. As far as the Sims, you can load a Sims disk image file into Damon Tools (which works like a virtual CD/DVD drive) and install it from there. To actually play the game, as of OFB, you have to use something like sd4hide to bypass the SafeDisc4 copy protection. I'm not familiar with Game Jackal.
Ancient Sim:
I honestly don't understand how the Daemon Tools system works. From what JM says, I could use it and still play the game without my cd-rom functioning, but I don't know how because surely it would have to copy the disk first and it can't do that if the cd-rom won't recognise it. He seems to be suggesting that it doesn't need to do that, but I am totally confused as to how it could copy it otherwise. My Game Jackal profile has stopped working, it keeps asking for the cd-rom, so I can't play at all now.
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