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Thread ID: 61560	2005-09-09 02:46:00	How to use DAEMON tool?	Renmoo (66)	Press F1

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387052	2005-09-09 02:46:00	Hello people, I have just installed Enclopaedia Britannica 2000 Deluxe. However, to access the resource, I need to constant put the resource cd into the CD drive. I had created an iso image of the resource CD and mount it as drive E: using the DAEMON tool. However, every time I startup Encyclopedia Britannica, it keeps looking for drive D: How can I alter this? Cheers :)	Renmoo (66)
387053	2005-09-09 03:15:00	Try the old DOS command assign. Can you do an autoexec.bat to run it in XP? Does it exist in XP? (Use the run command with assign /?)	Graham L (2)
387054	2005-09-09 04:14:00	Try the old DOS command assign. Can you do an autoexec.bat to run it in XP? Does it exist in XP? (Use the run command with assign /?) I am no genius in autoexec.bat stuff. Although I have heard of it, I have never actually try exploring that before... Cheers :)	Renmoo (66)
387055	2005-09-09 04:18:00	You can probably use the Start/Run... thing. Try that "assign /?" first .. if the command exists, it will give you the options and how to use it. Then you could actually issue the command manually the same way.	Graham L (2)
387056	2005-09-09 04:23:00	You can probably use the Start/Run... thing. Try that "assign /?" first .. if the command exists, it will give you the options and how to use it. Then you could actually issue the command manually the same way. I have just look up on the net for more info on autoexec.bat. I have tried going through the command prompt and typed in "edit c:\autoexec.bat" and a blue screen (no, not the blue screen of death) came up the screen, allowing me to edit autoexec.bat (I suppose?). Thanks for your quick reply, Graham L Cheers :) P.S. A Print Screen (imagef1.x10hosting.com)	Renmoo (66)
387057	2005-09-09 05:01:00	daemon's taskbar icon can be right clicked (i think, from memory) and in the pop up menu you can assign the .iso file to a virtual cd-rom drive, and the iso should stay mounted until you eject it (unmount it) the taskbar icon will turn green to signify that a file is "mounted", red for no mounted file you can nominate how many virtual cd drives you want etc	bjocque (1064)
387058	2005-09-09 05:34:00	Did Britannica not offer to do a complete instal to the Hard drive so that you wouldn't have to use the CD? The program probably has an entry in the registry pointing to the appropriate CD drive for the disk. You may be able to change it to point to the virtual drive.	PaulD (232)
387059	2005-09-09 05:51:00	Problem solved! After discussing the issue with a friend named Sarah, this is what I did . First, I uninstall the Encyclopedia Britannica 2000 program . Then, I create an image of it from the CD and mount it via drive E: . After that, I run the program from drive E:, which is a virtual drive . The program installation just went on normally . Next, I unmount the Encyclopedia Britannica 2000 installation program image and mount up the resource street onto drive E: . Voila! That works! However, the resource CD comes in two CDs, so occasionally when I am wandering off to other sections, it would prompt me for another disc, which I can easily solve it be unmount and mount up the other disc . Still, does anyone has a better idea to resolve this minor trouble? :confused: Cheers :)	Renmoo (66)
387060	2005-09-09 05:53:00	Did Britannica not offer to do a complete instal to the Hard drive so that you wouldn't have to use the CD? The program probably has an entry in the registry pointing to the appropriate CD drive for the disk . You may be able to change it to point to the virtual drive . Nope, all I did was install the main program and whenever I want to enter the sections, it will prompt me to insert the resource CD . Bear in mind it is Encyclopedia Britannica 2000, not the latest one that the PCWorld September issue has . Cheers :)	Renmoo (66)
387061	2005-09-09 05:56:00	EB want you to use the CD. It's called "piracy prevention" by polite people. They don't want one CD being used to install on 500 computers. It's Encyclopaedia Brittanica, not Linux. ;)	Graham L (2)
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