On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 15:37:34 -0700, Jordee wrote:
> Need a free (open source would be best) CD Emulator for Windows 7 Pro.
> Suggestions please.
> Thank you.

Try Pismo File Mount. I use it myself in my Win7.

https://pismotec.com/pfm/

On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 11:32:55 -0700, Jordee wrote:
> So far NONE of them work !
>
> My memory has failed me as I used to have a program that worked on WIn 7
> Pro but it is lost to my memory. I cannot rember the name of the
> program although I may have it archived some place but do not know how
> to search for it. I use everything app to search but do not remember
> any part if the app's name.
>
> This app I had did the following.
>
> Simply created a CD drive as immediately show in Explorer.
> All I had to do was drag and drop a .ISO file on it and it was
> immediately active. Simple !

If the GUI is rather fancy, it's probably the free version of Alcohol. Don't
know if it's still offer a free version. If not, you should be able to get
it from the archived site in Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

On 10/07/2021 22:12, VanguardLH wrote:
>> It's confusing to call it "CloneDrive" it is "Virtual CloneDrive".
>
> The products from Elby and resold by Slysoft/Redfox have varied over
> time.

So what? Idiot.
If the name was changed some time in the distant past before I used it
it's NOT RELEVANT NOW.

--
Brian Gregory (in England).

Thanks for the info.

No copy protection.
Not a game.
It's a big app that I own!
From days of yore.

Just me struggling.

It is all working now as I figured out what I needed to do.
I have the software installed as I needed.

Part of the problem was that I had a huge RAM Disk configured eating up
most of RAM.
I adjusted that and it helped.

I found the virtual CD software I had and got that going after redoing
the learning curve. My memory is failing.

VanguardLH wrote:
> Jordee <Jordee@Noplace.com> wrote:
>
>> That was the first thing I tried but the setup.exe I need to run sees
>> that it is not a CD and fails. I guess I will have to find my CD but I
>> doubt that I will be able to. It is about 21 years ago that I bought
>> it. At least I did make a .iso backup. But here I am now.
>
> Then trying to run on an emulated CD drive will fail, too. The program
> uses copy protection. One very old way, especially for games, was to
> deliberately burn bad sectors on the disc which acted like a fingerprint
> (which were the bad sectors constituted the fingerprint). Some
> installers or programs would check the device type from which they were
> loaded. Virtual drives may not get enumerated in the registry the same
> as real hardware. They would check the currently loaded processes for
> common filenames used by disc emulators.
>
> My guess is you're trying to run an old game, it is copy protected, and
> likely you won't run it anywhere else than from the game's disc. Some
> emulators try to subvert the copy protection (e.g., Alcohol, CloneDrive,
> etc) but they often fail, or they will let you load the game, but the
> game fails when you try to play it. Sometimes it is the first disc in a
> set that you use to start the game despite there may be N discs.
> Sometimes it is the last Nth disc in the set you need to have in the
> drive: you can start the game from an HDD, but it will check for the
> fingerprinted or protected disc in a drive (it only needs to check when
> the game is loaded, not for each mission or FM you play after loading
> the game).
>
> Do an online search on "<game> no CD" to see if someone came up with a
> way to play the game without requiring the CD. You can try to use Elby
> or Redfox to get around copy protection, like you install and start the
> game from an HDD, but it's the emulated disc that gets used to subvert
> the copy protection.
>
> Without knowing what software you are attempting to subvert its copy
> protection, no one using that game can tell you a no-CD workaround nor
> can look it up for you.
>
> For some copy protected software, if you lose the disc(s) then you lose
> the software.
>

On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 at 17:21:35, Jordee <Jordee@Noplace.com> wrote (my
responses usually follow points raised):
[]
>I found the virtual CD software I had and got that going after redoing
>the learning curve. My memory is failing.
[]
Care to tell us what that software is?
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"Bother," said Pooh, as Windows crashed into piglet.

Jordee <Jordee@Noplace.com> wrote in
news:scimae$192k$1@gioia.aioe.org:

> My memory is failing.

I'd prefer to think you had to push a bunch of crap off the back of it to make room for new
stuff.