FM 2005 image mount/ daemon tools help

[jhopkins85]

Hi,
My laptop has a combined dvd-rw (F:) and dvd (G:) drive. When I insert my FM 2005 disc it is automatically read by the F: drive. I am trying to mount the fm2005 image file using daemon tools, so that I can run the game without the disc. As I need to emulate my F: drive, it is not working (Daemon tools does not emulate writable devices). In the Daemon Tools FAQs it says emulating a writable drive would be senseless and something that no-one would ever need to do. I don't understand, because it appears I do need to. Is there a way round this, so that I can run FM 2005 v5.0.5 without the disc? Perhaps I am just stupidly doing something wrong. Maybe there is a way I could make it so that my FM 2005 disc is read by my G: drive instead -it will allow me to emulate that drive. I would really appreciate it if someone could help me.

Thanks

[DABhand]

If you check your registry.

Goto Start > run > regedit.exe


Browse through these branches.


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWARE
EIDOS
etc


You should find FM2005 listed, look in the settings there may be one called

Source Drive or something similar

change the letter from F: to G:

[Joe Forster/STA]

If you have a full image of the game, mount it into Daemon Tools and (re)install the game from there so that it will always try to access its CD/DVD from the emulated drive. (You may try to change the "installed from" or "original CD expected in" entry related to the game in the game's config file or the registry. Good luck with that, though.)

Alternatively, change the letter of your F: drive to something else (in Windows XP: Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management, right mouse button on drive, Change Drive Letter and Paths) and change the Daemon Tools' drive letter to F. Then where the game expects its original CD from will be the image mounted in Daemon Tools. (You will have problems with other applications as those may suffer from the change of drive letters. You might wanna restore the original drive letters after having finished playing.)