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boot from CD?
Name: freshair Date: September 16, 2003 at 08:17:57 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro CPU/Ram: 2G/500M
Comment:
hi,
I purchased some PC games recently and found out they all kept asking for the CD when loading. Is there a way to install the entire game on to the HDD and stop that annoying disc fetch message? I just don't like to look around for them since there are hundreds of discs on my desk. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Name: MichaelMck Date: September 16, 2003 at 09:36:45 Pacific
Reply:
I know there's CD emulator programs, that act as a new cd-rom drive, but are actually files on the HDD, and therefore you don't have to get out a bunch of CDs. I don't, however, have experience with such programs, therefore I can't tell you how well they work, or which one to get. I suggest you do a search on google for cd emulator or goto download.com and see what they have.
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Response Number 2
Name: idowackus Date: September 16, 2003 at 11:43:42 Pacific
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If you go to www.megagames.com , then you can usually find some "no cd patches"
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Response Number 3
Name: Wolfe Date: September 18, 2003 at 13:02:45 Pacific
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Sometimes you can copy the entire contents of the cd to your hard drive the install from that and it will not look for a cd in a drive.I do this since i have a second 40 gig hard drive just for backing up info.Take alot of drive space and dosnt always work but the game do install faster.
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Response Number 4
Name: Gnarly Geezer Date: September 22, 2003 at 15:00:45 Pacific
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You can use a program called "Virtuel CD" (http://www.virtualcd-online.com/vcddemoe.exe)to create virtuel cd's of your games on your HD. Itīs quite easy, you copy the Cd to your HD using the CD manager tool. Then load the virtuel cd file to your virtuel drive, and off you go! Mind you it takes up a lot of space, so you'll ned a large HDD. you can find a serial on emule. Hope it works!
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