Topic: image disk (Read 5428 times)

arcadians · « **on:** December 04, 2005, 08:53:09 pm »

where do i begin....
my 1st disk broke.....so i bought a new one now it broke because of my cd drive thing so am buying a new one agian and i wont to know how to make an image disk or something so i can play without the disk anbd mayby instructions on how to do it
thanks

webwalker · « **Reply #1 on:** December 04, 2005, 08:59:35 pm »

Alcohol120% and BlindWrite are the two tools that I know of that will make CD images on hard drives from copy-protected CDs.
I've used BlindWrite only, made the image of the LOD disk, and I use DaemonTools to mount this image in a "virtual CD drive".

This works fine, I'm certain you can do this with the whole set of CDs for D2/LOD, and install from on-disk images mounted on virtual hard drives.

Are you on a Windows-type system, or a Unix-like system?

arcadians · « **Reply #2 on:** December 04, 2005, 09:06:30 pm »

runnin on a windows system

DrowElf · « **Reply #3 on:** December 04, 2005, 09:17:43 pm »

You can make a image of your cd with any burning software, like nero etc.

But to mount the image you need a virtual cd software. I use demontools for this matter.

arcadians · « **Reply #4 on:** December 04, 2005, 09:23:39 pm »

what sites can i get this from

DrowElf · « **Reply #5 on:** December 04, 2005, 09:25:46 pm »

[u]Homepage Demontools[/u]

bdpf · « **Reply #6 on:** December 05, 2005, 09:11:17 pm »

Yep alky 120% works great.

It comes with virtual cd-rom soft ware.

Been using it for years to load / install programs on my win XP pro system.

By the way I hate windows....

My old LOD cd shattered in my my cd-rom, trashing the cd-rom besides. #$%^&*@#@#$%
Only good thing it was not my cdrw drive....

bdpf

arcadians · « **Reply #7 on:** December 06, 2005, 10:48:39 pm »

mmmm am not sure how to do this can any one give me step by step instructions please

webwalker · « **Reply #8 on:** December 07, 2005, 12:15:30 am »

Use yahoo or google to find out about BlindWrite or "Alcohol120" or Nero.
They have pretty simple instructions.
When you pick which tool you are going to use to make the image on your hard drive, get it and try it out, then post a follow-up about problems.

arcadians · « **Reply #9 on:** December 07, 2005, 06:05:37 pm »

I have made the image file (may not be done correctly) and it shows me the icon in the drive but when i attempt to play it ...it asks for disk any ideas where i went wrong??

webwalker · « **Reply #10 on:** December 07, 2005, 07:18:35 pm »

Going one step at a time:

What tool did you use to make an image of your LOD CD on your hard drive?
What files were created by this tool?
What are their sizes?

(for my system I used BlindWrite, which made two files, one 640 MB the other a few KB with a .bwt suffix)

arcadians · « **Reply #11 on:** December 07, 2005, 10:49:08 pm »

i used clonecd to make the image file and it created a diablo 2.ccd diablo 2.sub and another as u said in the 600mb the others are smaller

webwalker · « **Reply #12 on:** December 07, 2005, 11:28:25 pm »

We may need assistance from others, because clonecd is unknown to me personally.
Next step is to mount the image in a virtual CD drive like DaemonTools.
Which file to mount? Try one, then the other if the first doesn't work. How to tell? When you tell DaemonTools to mount the image, if it succeeds, you'll see the LOD splash screen come up and ask if you want to play or install. Exit from the splash screen and try to start D2 itself from your "normal" shortcut.

Please tell me what VirtualCD program you're using, and whether you see the splash screen from LOD when you mount the image.

Also, when you hit the "Play Diablo" shortcut on your desktop, what happens? (this question assumes you get the CD image loaded on the virtual drive and got the splash screen, then exited the splash screen leaving the image mounted).

arcadians · « **Reply #13 on:** December 07, 2005, 11:37:07 pm »

im using daemone tools to mount it after mountin the file the splash screen appeared and i closed it like you said then tryed to load it from the shortcut icon and it asked me to insert disk

webwalker · « **Reply #14 on:** December 07, 2005, 11:55:10 pm »

Excellent news on the spalsh screen, that means you have a valid image mounted on a valid virtual drive.

Now, your D2/LOD/CE installation is not seeing the drive.

OK, what does the shortcut contain? At this point I'm starting to clutch at straws because I don't have this problem.

One straw that comes to mind is the registry entries for D2/LOD and whether they specify which drive you installed from.

Dang! This is frustrating! Hang in here!

arcadians · « **Reply #15 on:** December 08, 2005, 12:11:45 am »

do u mean the target in shortcut ?

ChaosEmpire · « **Reply #16 on:** December 08, 2005, 12:32:37 am »

did you already tried to click on the diablo ii.xe directly in the d2 folder on ypour disk.without shortcuts?
Postet at: December 08, 2005, 12:29:32 am

also try regedit
you will find blizzard entertainment entries in hkey local machine and current user

i saw in diablo ii section a key called DiabloIICD which directs to my cd drive..
probably you will set this to your daemon tools virtual drive letter

arcadians · « **Reply #17 on:** December 08, 2005, 12:41:32 am »

I have it i d/loaded blindwrite it's running now thanks for all your help

webwalker · « **Reply #18 on:** December 08, 2005, 03:14:05 pm »

We have success? See you online? Wahoo?

(Am I mis-reading you?)

arcadians · « **Reply #19 on:** December 10, 2005, 03:07:02 pm »

diablo2 works fine but i used blindwrite and daemon tools to create the image and i cant make them for other games such as football manager why?

webwalker · « **Reply #20 on:** December 10, 2005, 04:49:21 pm »

You can make a LARGE disk FULL of CD images and mount them all. Large as in as large as your OS supports (2TB in my case for about 2k CD *images*.)

DaemonTools allows 4 virtual CD drives. This allows 4 games to be played in succession without any thought by mounting their CD images in the virtual drives. To play a 5th game, one of the 4 images must be dismounted, and the needed image mounted in its place.

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