So, what you were saying is that you were not quite sure if you left the disk in the drive when you dropped it off and you wanted to know if the game could be played without the disk because the computer store guys were running the program while diagnosing your machine, so if the game could be played without the disk then maybe you hadnt left it in the drive, but if the game could not be played without the disk then the disk must have been in the drive at the computer store because the guys were playing it while diagnosing your machine, your only hope was for a definitive answer from someone who knows so you could have done a perry mason on the head geek and smacked him down for jacking your bytes.
The answer to your question is currently unknown, but the answer to your problem is, use more words.
(Heh, I liked that one, made it my sig

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