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Burning isos... is that all there is to it?
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by night_link
on 2006-08-02 22:53:48
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I have isos to a couple of programs and one was .daa and .bwi. The .daa and .bwi I've converted to isos using PowerISO, I think. I just used Roxio Easy Creator to burn the iso image to CD-Rs. But one program can be installed but the PC won't reconize the disc inside the PC. Did I miss something when I burned the iso's? |
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Re: Burning isos... is that all there is to it?
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on 2006-08-03 19:30:28 |
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There's two things you can do that I see. (I'd recommend option #2 if you have the hard drive space) Option number 1: Roxio is okay for ISO burning, but I'd recommend Nero since most people I know have had fewer problems with it. You said that although you can install from the disc, after you install it it still asks for you to insert the disc? Then in that case it's probably because whoever made the iso/daa/etc. didn't rip properly some of the sectors of the disc associated for valid disc detection (meaning the special sectors of the disc companies will sometimes use specifically for the installed program to look for to check if the disc is valid). Though it could be something else. Option number 2: If you have PowerISO, PowerISO has the ability to set up virtual drives on your computer, so why don't you just mount the daa image to a virtual drive and run it off of that if you have the hard drive space? By the way, what program/game is this we're talking about? depending on I may be able to send you a working ISO version in case those two don't fix the problem.
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Re: Burning isos... is that all there is to it?
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by night_link
on 2006-08-03 20:15:53 (edited 2006-08-03 20:18:30)
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Ha ha ha, PowerISO was the program I used to convert the daa to iso format. I wanted a copy of Enter the Matrix, Jedi Academy, Jedi Outcast , and Path of Neo so I went on torrents to find them. Originally I thought I could make it like the original discs, where I can use the discs evertime I wanna run the program. I thought it would save space on the PC. Turns out, I still had to go find cracks for all of them except Jedi Outcast. I found them and tried them out and they work. But even then I didn't need the discs afterwards... The Jedi Academy came with a Daemon Tools and that's how I got introduced to virtual drives. I remembered googling for any programs to convert daa to iso and PowerISO was the only one I think. Roxio was used because I was using a PC that was locked on installing new programs other than the ones already on there. I was lucky PowerISO got through. Is it really that much of a difference between having programs cracked on your hard drive compared to still have some required data on the disc so you need the disc every time? |