No probs re: the multiple CDs...

Beware of most 'crack .exe' files... They are not necessarily all bad but you need to be considerably out of your skull to do anything with any of them until you have done some serious AV scans of the file(s) !!!

You may only need to locate a document file with the odd bit of info in it !

btw... None of the other mods or super mods here have yet commented on your delightful restraint in NOT mentioning the name of the app that is currently causing you moderate brain overheating if not structural damage !!!!

Ta for being cool about your questions !!!

- you make it sound so easy!

Dont worry I ran norton on it until that got as frustrated as I was!

It was all going so well ......

One of the easiest ways to do what you wish is to use NERO...

Just use the Burn Image function... You may need to enable the 'geek' view of the interace instead of the mom and pop dumbo default !
When you select the Burn Image function you will be prompted for the name and location of the .iso file(s)... One at a time, and (please) don't do anything else while the burn takes place... Give it a chance with no browsing or music playing or whatever !!!

Many of the apps out there are quite happy to be installed FROM CDs that you have burned from .iso - and then you must configure the no-CD capability.

Thought I'd have one last stab at doing it CD'less, moved the .exe files around again and got the following error message:

"Unable to initialize the ASPI Manager, ASPI support information was not found"

I know i'm close because it nearly loaded.

what do you recon?

I reckon give up an either burn the cd or mount it, because I can't find that program anywhere I trust i.e. either it is old or it is created by the p2p scene/private rip.

Strange a crack would be included on the CD that doesn't work

I'll just burn it, seems easier.

The crack thats on there might be ok, prob because im doing something wrong.

Dont really understand how to mount the drive properly. Have got it so that I can see it on the computer and see whats in the virtual cd drive. I dont know which file/s need to be mounted so the app thinks there is a CD in there.

I think I saw it on ebay pretty cheap ....

hmmmm...well from my experience if it won't mount in a virtual rom then it won't work when burned as a CD either....in fact I always mount disc images before I possibly waste a CD (and my time)...did you do a bitzi lookup on the file you acquired?

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You need to mount the ISO image, not just some files from it. The crack should just have been added to the original CD-ROM.

I did a bitzi look up and all the reviews were fine- cant remember where I found the file from to see the reviews again though!


When I downloaded it, it came as 2 ISO's so not sure which one to mount or how to combine them together.

This is what I've tried to do...

-Opened the ISO files into PowerISO and then extracted the info on them all into one folder on my PC

-Installed the program

-Swapped the .exe file from the crack folder with the one in the program file

-Mounted ISO 1 (didnt work), Mounted ISO 2 (didnt work)

-Tried downloading a new crack but to use it, it wasnt as simple as just swapping the .exe files. This crack created a couple new files and looked pretty genuine. (I've virus checked all of these files with different AV software- just incase) I think by then I'd moved so many files around that it didnt have a fair crack at working.

-Do I need to put a new .sys file in my system32/drivers file to get the virtual drive to work? I know I put one in there for the microsoft virtual but dont think I did for PowerISO


I think the problem lies in the mounting (mounting things has never been my strong point!) I've now removed everything and about to start again for one last throw of the dice. Please can you guys check my technique and let me know if I need to be doing something different.

Cheers again

I looked at other user comments for that download and the comments implied that the crack on the ISO didn't work, but they could be found at "the link that I sent to you". Because this download is so old, the fix has since been removed from that site it seems. Be extremely careful when finding stuff to fix it with. Because the fix is so small in size it is very easy to get fooled be someone renaming a virus.

And no PowerISO takes care of all that by itself, not like the inferior M$ equivalent.

Pretty much the best thing is to check the web for comments and discussions on the thing you are trying to do.