From: "Glenn Meadows" 

The virtual CD driver looks like a possible plan for him.

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Glenn M.


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:41a2cb6b{at}w3.nls.net...
> Nope. The must-insert-CD nonsense is the "copy protection",
and is present
> in all games. Won't be fooled by that, but you can get no-cd cracks for
just
> about any and all games (available 30 seconds after the game hits the
> stores) quite easily. For example:
> http://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads-cat-82.html for flight simulator.
> Just make sure you get the proper version.
>
> I download those for all the games I play, simply because my CD drive is
> noisy and slow, and I find it really annoying to swap the disks all the
> time. Just be careful, some of the sites are very virus/other malware
> loaded. Usually the Russian sites are pretty safe, but you'll have to do a
> bit of guessing with the file names if you don't know the language.
>
> Another thing you can do is get one of those virtual CD drivers, that will
> allow you to have an image on your HD look like a CD in a drive. I've
never
> used them, but I think Roxio has one which is supposed to be pretty good.
> You can have as many ISO's on the HD as you want and just select which one
> you want to have in the "drive".
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:41a2aa2a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Anyone know if copying all the CD's to a new drive letter on a HD, and
> > then
> > installing from there will relieve the need to have one of the Install
> > disks
> > in the CD drive when starting the program?  The Boss has a Dell Latitude
> > laptop, that has NO drives (floppy or CD/DVD) built in (it's one of
those
> > ultra slim/light laptops), and he doesn't want to have to schlep the CD
> > drive around, and connect it everytime he wants to run Flight Sim (while
> > on
> > an airplane, etc)...
> >
> > --
> > Glenn M.
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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