Test Drive 6 - is "WARNING.DA" file necessary??

[Wayne]

I just burned a copy of Test Drive 6 and converted it to self-bootable, but when I tried to copy all the files from the non-bootable disc, I got an error on WARNING.DA, which is in the root directory. That file shows to be about 888kb.

Is this file necessary? The game seems to run OK, but I may have just not gotten to where that file is needed, yet. If I have to, I'll try to extract it from the .bin/.cue file (I converted the .bin to an .iso using bin2iso.exe, since CDRWin doesn't work for me).

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Wayne]

More info and another question... I found that 4-Wheel Thunder also has the "WARNING.DA" file and it's the same size that is reported by the copy on Test Drive 6. Obviously I can't do a file-compare since the copy in Test Drive 6 is corrupt. The dates & times are different between this file on these two games.

Question: Are these files the same and if it's necessary for one reason or another, can I substitute the copy from 4-Wheel Thunder to replace the corrupt file in Test Drive 6?

Thanks for any help.

[wildthing]

The warning.da file is completely unnecessary, I had the same problem but I just completely removed the file & the selfboot copy works fine.I've also come across this problem with quite a few other games. If you're buying bootlegged copies off someone then I have a suspicion that this is some sort of copy protection that's been added to the disk image afterwards.