External USB Drive: The Ultimate to Circumvent all copy protections.

[kohan69]

Originally Posted by TippeX

i think what he means is to have ONLY a usb external cd/dvd drive

then

1. STOP the external dvd/cd drive
2. mount the game/image in a virtual drive (presumably daemon tools or alc)
3. play the game

in essence, its the same 'method' as disabling the ide cd/dvd drives via device manager or whatever, or using sfnightmare etc..

so overall, nothing new..

True, but like many others I had bad luck with Internal drive disabling - every other game requited a new version of star-something or whatnot.

External drive made life much easier.

I did not see this info in any sticky, sorry if this is a repeat.

[Joe Forster/STA]

@TippeX: If there's any new (= not yet in the FAQ) useful information in this guide, please, tell me what it is and where to insert it in the FAQ. Thanks!