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Best way to run CD from Harddrive?

MotionMan

MotionMan

Lifer
What is the best way to run a CD-based program from the hard drive. I want to be able to run some games for my kids but I want to put the CDs away so the kids do not scratch them.

Obviously, I would prefer a freeware option (i.e. not VirtualDrive).

Thanks.

MotionMan
 
Alcohol 120%

Magic ISO is free though

You will be ripping the image to the drive and then have a virtual drive that allows you to mount the image and the virtual drive will trick the image into thinking it is a cd that is being played in a physical cd drive.

Works great not as complicated as it sounds. Just needs a reboot and about 30mins of your attention.
 
I am trying out Magic ISO/MagicDisc. Seems to be working for most of the games. However, one in particular crashes when you quit the game. I had installed the games from the CD, so I may try uninstalling and reinstalling from the ISO/Virtual drive to see if that helps.

Thanks for the suggestions and I will try to report back once I have fully tested everything.

MotionMan
 
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