diablo II burn doesnt recognize cd

[midwest007]

The people that told me to "enable hide cdr" on clone cd might work,....but the usa version of clone cd has the hide cdr permanently disabled.. how do i get around that?

[Bgnome]

try setting your country region to somewhere else in the control panel

[celtic_druid]

Hide CDR is only usefull if you are trying to play a copy in a CDRW drive. If this is not what you are trying to do then don't bother with it.

[midwest007]

Sure i can uninstall clone cd .. tell my comp in control panel that i live in another country and try to download clone cd from a mirror from a different country. Maybe i should ... but your right this may not be my problem...

Seems like the other dude on in this forum "Dafranchise69" may be having the same problem... but his text is so confusing its hard to tell...

I am new to this and wondered if i will have the same problems making backups of my other cds... op sys, office suites, games...ect... or will i only have problems with softfware that requires you to have the cd in the drive for the programs to work? ... the no cd crack for diablo seems to be a complicated 3 or 4 part operation because of id checking in battlenet... I had previously downloaded a no cd crack for my age of empires cd from microsoft... it worked like a dream.. was a one step operation that was within my grasp...:)... hopefully the diablo is just a tough cookie to crack... maybe the maker Blizzard went the extra mile to protect its software. But I did buy the cd and the expansion cd and when you have put it in everytime you play the game... it tends to get wear on the cd which someday will limit the playability.... i just want a bootable copy...:(

[celtic_druid]

Don't think you have to uninstall Clone CD and it definatly doesn't matter where you download it from.

"may not be your problem" you are either trying to run the copy in a CDRW drive or you are not.. there is no maybe about it.

You could also try using Daemon-Tools to emulate the securom protection.

What drive are you using??

[midwest007]

I am using my phillips cdrw drive to run the disc... my other cd rom drive didnt wanna run when i installed the cdrw in this computer.. The cable appears to be damaged though and I didnt think it mattered if i had two drives or not as long as i had the one cdrw it could function as my cd drive.

If it matters what kind of drive I use, I can get another cable and try to make my other cd drive active and try running the game from it. In the mean time I will hook my regular 52spin drive to the cable location of the crdw and try it that way... thanks for your help.

[celtic_druid]

When I asked what drive I meant the make and model.

Check here http://elby.ch/english/products/clone_cd/writers/p.html#philips to see if your drive supports more than just RAW reading and RAW-DAO 16 or RAW-DAO 96 writing, because otherwise it is no good for 1:1 securom copies... and a lot of the older Phillips drives only supported RAW reading.

[midwest007]

Ok sorry about that ....my drive is a phillips pcrw 804

the url you gave me said this about my drive

PCRW-804K/B - (interface)ATAPI/IDE - -(write) RAW-DAO 16 - (best data read) RAW (best audio read) RAW+16

what does this information tell you...?

thank you for you help! :)

[celtic_druid]

It tells me that that drive is no good for reading Securom Discs. If you test your Clone CD image by mounting it with Daemon-Tools making sure that securom emulation is disabled you should find that the copy fails to run.

Your drive can write 16bytes of subchannel which is all that is required for Securom, however you need to be able to read the subchannel data to write it.

You need to use a drive that supports subchannel reading. If you had read the CD with Securom settings I believe Clone CD should have given you a warning about the drives inability to read subchannel data.

[midwest007]

Ok, thanks ... i will go out shopping for a new drive..
ya got any suggestions.... (for a modest budget... :) )
and what do they say about their drive that lets you know
that it can read subchannel data?
thanks again... i will keep trying

[celtic_druid]

You could get a Lite-On 16x DVD drive (163, 163D and 165H) as they can all read subchannel. They are excellent drives and cheap.

You could also pay just a little more and get a Lite-On burner.

Check the Clone CD hardware requirements list to see which burners can read subchannel data. Most if not all newer ones should.