After the success of your last lot of help i'm back for more...

I'm now trying to play the .iso file that I have downloaded, I dont have any spare cd's to write the data to so i am going to play it using a virtual drive (microsoft virtual cd rom) but i'm having a few problems setting the drive up.

This is my problem: i've copied the vcdrom.sys file to my system32/drivers folder

Then when I click "driver control" in the virtual cdrom app i get the following error message- "cannot open scm- access denied", that doesnt seem to matter though as i can click ok and get to the next stage.

then I click on "install driver" and then browse to find the vcdrom.sys file i previously copied, but then i get the following error message: "the handle is invalid"

I dont even know what a handle is, let alone whether one is valid or not!

Im using Vista if that makes any difference

Any ideas?

thanks in advance

Well.. first uninstall microsoft virtual cd rom

Then go here instead PowerISO - Create, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Mount, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive

was just about to download daemon tools, will see how i get on with that

actually sod the daemon tools, you've been spot on so far so i'll stick with your idea!

cheers for the tip, thats loads better.

all i need to do now is work out what i'm doing!?

I've extracted the files to another folder, is it now as simple as just going through the set up?

you probably knew it was coming....

I've now extracted all the data and installed the app, was idiot proof power iso worked perfect.

my new problem is: when going to load the installed app i get the following error message- "please insert the correct cd rom, select ok and restart application"

i was expecting to get this kind of message and i'm guessing this is where the mounting comes in, thought that would be idiot proof aswell- obviously not!

any ideas?

thanks in advance

Rightclick on the ISO file, go down to PowerISO->Set number of drives. Set it to 1. Rightclick again and choose mount to (driveletter)

If it's a game, then most have no-cd cracks available, because not even even legitimate buyers like the bother of needing the CD-ROM in the drive every time they want to play a game.

Just Google "name of game"+nocd (or no-cd)

BTW Deamon Tools is a good program as well. PowerISO used to have the edge, but now I think they are equal... not that I've tried it, since PowerISO never failed me yet.

I think finding the no cd crack is probably the hardest bit of doing all of this! All I keep coming up with is iso downloads for the game itself as opposed to the no cd crack,

any ideas?

You may also be experiencing a problem re: 'setup' file(s)...
Might need to do a bit of shuffling around to get things in the 'right place'...

And... er... You know this would all be a lot easier if you just go scrounge some CDs, right ???!!!

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Really? wish I knew that before!- so if I burn the info to a CD all I need to do is put it in and play? the ISO came on 2 CD's, still OK?

I thought I had it for a momment, there is a folder named "crack" with a .exe file in it, I've tried moving the .exe in the programme and replacing it with that one but got a new error message instead.

I know the old saying of "if you cant crack it buy it" but i'm detirmined to do this!