On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:19:33 GMT, "meerkat" <man@cov.com> wrote:

>
>"Jethro" <Wilson@somewhere.org> wrote in message
>news:rp48f3tl8vhvmkdvsec93fvtgm5lkr00rk@4ax.com.. .
>> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:51:55 GMT, Jethro <Wilson@somewhere.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:06:39 GMT, Jethro <Wilson@somewhere.org>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>I created a virtual drive equating to a folder on my HDD. Now how
>>>>do
>>>>I execute the drive to simulate playing a disk in a drive?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>Jethro
>>>
>>>
>>>I can see I didn't ask the question right.
>>>
>>>I copied the content of a video VCD disk into a folder
>>>d:\testfolder.
>>>Then I created f: as a virtual drive representing d:\testfolder.
>>>Now - how do I then play that video from f: and not the actual disk
>>>drive? Or can I?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Jethro
>>
>>
>> By way of further explanation - you can see from my earlier posts
>> that
>> I cannot seem to make a auto-playing VCD disk despite following
>> clear
>> instruction on the web as to how to do it. And I am tired of
>> wasting
>> disks to make my tests. So I thought to simulate a disk via a
>> virtual
>> drive. So that is what I am really up to. The content I said above
>> that I copied is the content of a VCD disk that should have auto
>> played but does not. I thought I could play some with the elements
>> that were supposed to make it work, but I wanted to stop wasting
>> disks.
>>
>> I hope this makes things clearer
>>
>Hi J. now we`re getting somewhere.
>You`re experimenting with discs.
>My own experiments are Always carried out with CD-RW, or
>DV-RW discs.
>That way, you don`t knacker dozens of discs, and when you`ve
>sorted any problems, you burn the final.
>
>RW discs are of course erasible, and re-usable.(big floppies).
>bw..
>
That'll work. I guess I can't mount (old UNIX term - I remember the
days!) the virtual drive as a cd drive and play it huh?

Jethro