Disk Not Recognised - Won't Load Game (UPDATED)
Avalikia:
Quote from: BlueSoup on 2006 September 20, 06:03:38
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.
Well, it's my parent's DVD player(s) so I've not be involved in the whole thing, but I'll suggest that to my parents.
BlueSoup:
After it happened a few more times, I just did a restore point thingy and that worked too.
Avalikia:
Oh, my dad wasn't as asleep as I thought. Here's a rough paraphrase of what he said: He also believes that it's most likely a hardware problem. If that is the case, there's not much you can do but replace the drive. However, he offers these suggestions: It's possible that you could find a diagnostic program that will check out the offending drive and tell you if it's still good or not (but unfortunately neither he or I know where you'd find it). It can tell you if the drive itself is okay, in which case it would be a software problem. He doesn't think that it's a matter of the copy protection; he thinks that the drive was instead gradually losing it's ability to read different formats, which would explain why it was able to run your recorded disks for awhile but not the others. He also mentioned that it's also possibly a problem with the drivers, so you might want to check those out. He also added some fine print about how he specializes in software and not hardware so, while he has an educated guess, it's still a guess.
Ancient Sim:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2006 September 20, 06:05:14
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.
Well, presuming you mean use Game Jackal, yes I can for now, but what happens when I want to install the furry EP that doesn't exist? What I am trying to avoid having to do is send the pc away, because without it I will start blubbering in a corner and will need that shrink guy. I'd have to start doing normal things like cleaning the house and talking to people. It'd only take an hour or so of that to send me completely over the edge.
Oh, another weird thing it did that forgot to mention. I put the OFB disk in and it did its usual thing of not acknowledging its presence. I then took it out and put my mp3 disk back in. It made various stuttering nosies, then up popped all the folders for OFB??? Sounds like a serious delayed reaction, but how the hell did it bring those up when I'd taken the disk out and put another one in? They wouldn't even go until I rebooted.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2006 September 20, 07:05:24
Well, presuming you mean use Game Jackal, yes I can for now, but what happens when I want to install the furry EP that doesn't exist? What I am trying to avoid having to do is send the pc away, because without it I will start blubbering in a corner and will need that shrink guy. I'd have to start doing normal things like cleaning the house and talking to people. It'd only take an hour or so of that to send me completely over the edge.
Installs don't check CDs, only trying to play the game does. So you'll image the disk and use the image of that disk instead. No sweat. THE DREAD PIRATE ROBERTS LEAVES NO SURVIVORS!
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