Hello. I am having trouble playing Diablo on my machine. I can install the game just fine from the CD (the the autorun feature is working properly); however, when I try to play Diablo, it gives me this error: "Please insert the Diablo CD into your CD-ROM drive and press 'OK'." I receive this message even when the CD is already in the drive, and I click on OK. So, when I click CANCEL, I receive the message telling me that Diablo could not read the diabdat.mpq file. Just as a simple check, I can open up Windows Explorer, go the CD-ROM drive (which is D on my machine), view all the files on the CD, and copy any file to my harddrive. I also experience problems when I'm trying to install Quake2 (the demo) on my machine. During the installation, it reports that it cannot find the CD-ROM drive. I have a Windows95 machine also, and both Diablo and Quake2 work perfectly. Here are the specifications of my computer: Model: Hewlett Packard Pavilion XE735 Processor: Intel Celeron 667MHz Operating System: Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition RAM: 64 MB CD-ROM: 48x SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148 If you need more information, please reply to this or e-mail me at jhhughley@peoplepc.com or zir0@netzero.net. Thanx in advance!

what is speed of cd-rom in the other machine that runs the games fine? is it slower speed? ive had some probs loading or running games and seems to work just fine on machines with slower speed cd-roms(mines a 56x speed) icluding quake 2&3 and starcraft.

The speed of the other machine that runs the games fine is a 4x.

I have never tried anything like this in Windows ME, but since the program will not find drive D look for any drives further down the alphabet than D:. If you do have some, try to load MSCDEX manually in the autoexec.bat and use the /L:H switch where H: is the drive you want the CD to become.

Are these Cds the originals, or copies? This sounds like what happens when some Cds are copied. You could always try a No Cd file so you don't have to use the Cd all of the time.