On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:47:26 GMT, Jethro <Wilson@somewhere.org> wrote:

>On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:10:05 -0500, Joel <Joel@NoSpam.com> wrote:
>
>>kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:56:49 GMT, Jethro
>>> <Wilson@somewhere.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> >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.
>>>
>>>
>>> Use a burning app that supports creation of a CD Image, an
>>> *.ISO file (Nero, etc). Next install a virtual drive
>>> application like Daemon Tools. After the system has
>>> rebooted (IIRC, it will need a reboot), use the Daemon Tools
>>> icon in the tray to mount this ISO image, then it will
>>
>> If it requires to reboot (something isn't right) then I would suggest to
>>use another virtualCD program instead. I am using Alcohol 120% which is not
>>only virtualCD/DVD but it's also ISO burner (which supports just about all
>>popular ISO formats).
>
>Hmmm - I don't see that Alcohol creates an ISO image - just .mds and
>.ccd. Is that so?
>Jethro
>
>>Or if reboot is required then I don't think I can get
>>much done as I often either converting, authoring, downloading or in middle
>>of something.
>>
>> IOW, a normal VirtualCD should let you Mound/UnMound anytime you want, and
>>shouldn't require rebooting.
>>
>>> appear. One thing I am not certain about doing this (since
>>> I leave autoinsert and autoplay functions disabled) is
>>> whether it will initiate the autoplay functionality the
>>> moment after the disc is mounted... I suspect so, but have
>>> not tried it.

I am going to try all this again, but first -

My Computer now shows two virtual 'things'. I have a 'DVD drive' as
f: and a 'Virtual drive' as g:. I want to get rid of both to get back
to base point. I have tried, but have not found a way to delete them
that works. They surely resulted from my experimenting with Virtual
Drive Creator V2.1.4 by J.A. Associates and/or Virtual Drive Manager
by Farstone and/or Virtual DAEMON Tools V4.10 by DT Soft Ltd. So my
first request is for help to get rid of f: and g: drives.

Secondly, I used Roxio to create a .ccd image in a HDD folder from the
VCD disk that I had created, but can't get to auto play (auto run).
Then, I extracted all the folders/files from that image to another
hard disk folder. Next, I changed a few files in the hope of
correcting the problem.

At this point. I want to test the result. That is, I want to make
what now have into something hopefully playable (runnable). I could
create a new VCD disk with this and test that, but right now I don't
have any RW disks. I figure I have to make a new image on a virtual
drive (or is it virtual CD?) which can then act like a real
drive/disk. So - how do I accomplish this? That is, how many steps
are involved, and what are they?

Thanks much

Jethro