making DVD mini image from Safedisc 4.70.000

[ptn10]

Works!!!

It's just that SD 4.7 takes a closer look whether opt. IDE drives are present. When deactivating opt. IDE drives in device manager there shouldn't be a problem with a mounted image.

After reading about 50+ threads regarding this issue this is the one that made most sense and tried it. vola! BF2142 Launched post disabling IDE's in Device Manager. Used alcohol and DT4. newbe & first time emulator here. If i can do it, anyone can; lol! good luck.

[emreb]

figured out;
actually just confirming that someone else wrote before;
the ones who cannot make their maxi image work with d-tools or any other virtual drive
should disable the physical drive from device manager but ALSO from the BIOS

i think this is because of the chipset differences, mine is a k9n (nvidia board of msi)

[SubEclipse]

Here's a weird scenario...

I was using Vista until last night and I never encountered any problems running my 2142 image... (created with Alcohol 120%). I didn't need to disable my physical drive in any way whatsoever...

I decided to go back to XP for some compatibility issues I was having, and now the only way I can get my image to load is by not only disabling my physical drive in Device Manager, but a reboot is required before it will work as well.

The -only- change to my system is the OS. I'm using the same image, same Daemon Tools, etc.

This is somewhat of an inconvienance, and if anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate any help finding a solution where disabling the drive isn't necessary.

P.S. Using software to hide the physical drive does not work... already tried.

Thanks!

[brabe]

Is ist possible to make a mini image for a starforce game?

The game ist Colin MCRae 2005 and it does not work from my image. The orginal is a german version of the best price 10€ series.

thanks for replys

edit:
Scanning -> J:\Colin McRae Rally 2005\protect.dll
File Type : Dll, Size : 14221149 (0D8FF5Dh) Bytes
-> File has 14147669 (0D7E055h) bytes of appended data starting at offset 011F08h
[!] Starforce v3.4.50.01 (Build 21.09.04) detected !
[!] [PROTECTiON LEVEL] -> Starforce Professional
- Scan Took : 1.453 Seconds

[Preatorian]

Hi i used the .ini file u made but it didnt work PLZ help me

i got the next error's

3-7-2007 20:34:44 error Extraction failed
3-7-2007 20:34:44 error Extraction is impossible, Can't find an appropriate read method.
3-7-2007 20:34:44 error Can't find a method to read a CD AUDIO track
3-7-2007 20:34:27 info Reading device : 1:2:0 - ASUS DVD-E616P 1.04 [E] (Ide)
3-7-2007 20:34:27 info Extraction started
3-7-2007 20:33:43 info Loaded read profile BF2142 Maxi
3-7-2007 20:33:27 info Loaded copy profile Automatic
3-7-2007 20:33:08 error Extraction failed
3-7-2007 20:33:08 error Extraction is impossible, Can't find an appropriate read method.
3-7-2007 20:33:08 error Can't find a method to read a CD AUDIO track
3-7-2007 20:32:51 info Reading device : 1:2:0 - ASUS DVD-E616P 1.04 [E] (Ide)
3-7-2007 20:32:51 info Extraction started
3-7-2007 20:32:41 info Loaded read profile BF2142 Maxi
3-7-2007 20:32:32 info Loaded read profile Automatic
3-7-2007 20:32:26 info Using Patin-Couffin driver Version 1.37, Internal revision 37 - Async. Access mode
3-7-2007 20:32:26 info ParamStr 0 = "G:\Program Files\VSO\BlindWrite6\BW.exe"

greatz Prea

[Terramex]

@Preatorian
Sorry, thought i also posted it in this thread:
After some logging i'm pretty sure a working maxi image can't be created for BF 2142. It uses a custom ISO check, not the standard method of only 5 checked sectors

[Preatorian]

No problem M8 THX any way just have to wait until some bainniac finds a solution