OMG how can i make a USB drive be recognized as a CD/DVD drive?

[ManBearPig]

Here's my story: I have no dvd drive on my laptop, so i made an ISO of a game (KotOR 2) on a different computer, transferred it to my laptop, and "burned" the ISO to the USB drive. I installed it on my laptop. Then I downloaded a no-cd crack for the game...BUT, it turns out that no-cd cracks and intel chipsets won't run the game.

Fine...i get the regular EXE, stick in the USB drive, thinking it should act like a disc, and try to run the game: it gives me an error and says there's no cd/dvd in the drive.

WTF?! How can I get this damn USB drive to be recognized as a cd drive?!

Thanks.

 

[Lifted]

I think you're best bet would be to use one of the many programs that mounts ISO's so they appear as a CD/DVD to the OS.

I use virtual clone drive at work to mount ISO's for extraction on file servers and such.

 

[ManBearPig]

Doesn't work, it tells me its detected an emulator lol. Also, if this is against the forum rules (for the crack), i can edit or delete.

 

[wirednuts]

buy a portable dvd burner. some can run off just usb power. they are extremely handy.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Doesn't work, it tells me its detected an emulator lol.

Daemon Tools?

 

[ManBearPig]

Daemon Tools?

aye. sometimes itll straight unmount the image, which is weird lol.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

sounds like a case for a no-cd cracked exe.

 

[ManBearPig]

sounds like a case for a no-cd cracked exe.

There's some sort of issue with the no cd crack and my chipset though!

 

[videogames101]

Astroburn, Daemon tools, PowerISO, MagicISO, etc

 

[ManBearPig]

Astroburn, Daemon tools, PowerISO, MagicISO, etc

detects an emulator...

 

[DominionSeraph]

detects an emulator...

Try renaming the exe?

 

[wirednuts]

buy a portable dvd burner. some can run off just usb power. they are extremely handy.

I agree.

 

[irishScott]

detects an emulator...

There are DRM emulator settings in Daemon Tools, might try messing around with those.

 

[ManBearPig]

There are DRM emulator settings in Daemon Tools, might try messing around with those.

ill check it out, but i dunno. its been a nightmare. if i try to cloak it with YASU, it says it cant find the drive lol.