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« 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 :)
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Re: image disk
« 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?
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Re: image disk
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2005, 09:06:30 pm »
runnin on a windows system
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Re: image disk
« 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.
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Re: image disk
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2005, 09:23:39 pm »
what sites can i get this from
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Re: image disk
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2005, 09:25:46 pm »
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Re: image disk
« 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.... :s513:

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

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Re: image disk
« 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
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Re: image disk
« 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.
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Re: image disk
« 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??
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Re: image disk
« 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)
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Re: image disk
« 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
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Re: image disk
« 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).
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Re: image disk
« 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
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Re: image disk
« 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!
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