scaramonga, it doesn't necessarily have to involve actually, physically, disconnecting your drives... you can do the same thing by emulating... disconnecting is a last resort which no one would ask you to do unless you were desperate, which you obviously aren't hehe :)

Hope that helps :P

UPDATE: Well, looks like Crypton's "No-DVD" crack is nothing like the usual cracks of the sort that we see on GCW, especially since it involves unplugging drives, etc. I'd rather stick with the Maxi Mini Images or actual No-CD/DVD cracks... hope you can provide us with one soon 007 :)

hey guys, i'm new at this stuff. so don't mind me if i mess up on something, it comes with trial and error, but i have a question... where did you guys get your X3 game??? i Looked all over walmart and they don't have it.

To Get X-3 Running
 

Bypasses Starforce Protection

1) Turn off your computer
2) Unplug all your CD Rom Drives
3) Reboot your computer
4) Using Daemon Tools 4.00 (Might work with earlier versions but I used 4.00) fix the .mds file of X-3 and then launch X-3
5) Bypasses Starforce CD check