BF2S Forums HELP! my dvd drive doesnt work

Did you try turning your hax off?

thats getting old lol

And you don't need game image. You need only mini image which is only 4 MB

I'm not going to make assumptions as to whether nitro has been trying to pirate games, but things like daemon tools have very few legitimate uses. I've seen people who have had problems with their cd drives not working correctly because they were attempting to circumvent the cd protection on games, using programs that hide or delete the registry keys for legitimate and virtual dvd/cd drives. Such programs are supposed to replace said registry entries after they're done with them, but its quite possible that for whatever reason this does not happen. After the registry keys are gone, the system does not use the cd drive properly/recognize when cds are in the drive, which is probably what happened here. The only fix I know of for this is to reinstall windows, which should rewrite the entire registry and reinstall all the devices. There may be registry fixes available on the internet somewhere, but as I have never had this problem personally I've never cared to find out.

And Sixshot, I believe nitro has already admitted to software piracy in some of his nitro91 posts, and I believe he mentioned pirating bf2 as well. I'm too tired to look up those posts, but theyre around.

Skruples when you say reinstall Windows as in partition the drive otherwise if Daemon were aware that this can happen they surely would have a simpler solution than reinstalling Windows.

why? because my pc sucks or what?

Skruples wrote:

I'm not going to make assumptions as to whether nitro has been trying to pirate games, but things like daemon tools have very few legitimate uses. I've seen people who have had problems with their cd drives not working correctly because they were attempting to circumvent the cd protection on games, using programs that hide or delete the registry keys for legitimate and virtual dvd/cd drives. Such programs are supposed to replace said registry entries after they're done with them, but its quite possible that for whatever reason this does not happen. After the registry keys are gone, the system does not use the cd drive properly/recognize when cds are in the drive, which is probably what happened here. The only fix I know of for this is to reinstall windows, which should rewrite the entire registry and reinstall all the devices. There may be registry fixes available on the internet somewhere, but as I have never had this problem personally I've never cared to find out.

And Sixshot, I believe nitro has already admitted to software piracy in some of his nitro91 posts, and I believe he mentioned pirating bf2 as well. I'm too tired to look up those posts, but theyre around.

I already know that much that there are legitimate uses for such a utility.  However, like you mentioned, he has admitted to doing certain illegal things.  And that's why I doubt his credibility.  To inquire on such a thing, you cannot help but wonder why bother asking?

Then there's also the fact that due to what he has revealed on a first post basis he already made his true identity known.  Yet he doesn't care to even exert any effort to make a change or to start anew.  That bothers me, as he is "marked" for a very, very long time.  Why does he carry around a billboard-sized identity clue is clearly beyond my comprehension to the true nature of his intentions.  It doesn't make any sense to me at all.

I've seen some of his past posts before, which you did referred to.  And that's why I'm very reluctant to even bother lifting a finger in assisting.  What good is helping him going to do if he makes it so plain obvious that he is who he is?  I would rather not know than to be known beforehand.  It's like meeting up to some stranger who inquires for directions only to have him say up front that he killed a guy 20 years ago for no reason.  I just cannot bring myself around to help at all.  The main thing I see in the Tech section is that everyone has a certain level of credibility when it comes to asking for help regardless of the legitimacy of the software used.  Nobody knows what you are running is legit or not.  So in an act of trust, I give people the benefit of the doubt that they are running legit software.  Yes, software piracy is common 'round these parts on the 'net.  That's a given.  But there are also honest people, much like you and I, who legally purchased a copy of BF2 -- hence my early trusting.

With "this person," everything gets turned upside-down and inside-out.  All kinds of credibility is thrown out and trust is no longer an option.  "He" requests for help here, of all places, yet what makes him think that he'll get such help?

Let us not forget that practically everyone who have a legal copy of BF2 has at the very least an optical disc drive.  Given from what is known here at this time and what information we can gather, "he" doesn't appear to have an actual physical optical drive that can, at the very least albeit very small, some form of credibility.  Yes, I know there are ways around this.  Still, in many cases, would you bother to go that far?  Optical drives are cheap and it doesn't even have to be the greatest and best model.  Optical drives are such common commodity that it's like the ancient floppy disk drives (if it runs, it runs; who cares if it's slow or noisy?).

"No can do."  I cannot help, at all.  "He" is on his own.  "He" took the time to bother with making a mistake that costed him.  "He" should be able to figure the rest out on his own.

NO LIFE NITRO wrote:

I uninstalled daemon and now i dont even have a dvd drive
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/2709 … ed2iv1.jpg

just great ffs

sucks for you? :}

And sixshot, I'm pretty sure he does have some sort of physical dvd/cd drive installed, as that was the purpose of his original post. I dont really know what the problem here is, but I've already mentioned what the probable cause is, and he can take it from here. And if he can't, he can just format and reinstall windows like I suggested.

yes it is legion

Skruples wrote:

NO LIFE NITRO wrote:

I uninstalled daemon and now i dont even have a dvd drive
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/2709 … ed2iv1.jpg

just great ffs

sucks for you? :}

And sixshot, I'm pretty sure he does have some sort of physical dvd/cd drive installed, as that was the purpose of his original post. I dont really know what the problem here is, but I've already mentioned what the probable cause is, and he can take it from here. And if he can't, he can just format and reinstall windows like I suggested.

Yet here's the thing... there's no mention of the make & model of one.  What's there to prove he has one?  He's even using an illegal copy of a copyrighted software that is not intended for the general public use.  It says alot of what he isn't capable of doing when he does have the knowledge of piecing together two pieces of the puzzle.  It's so blatently obvious that it's like his new profile name.

i use alcohol 120% corporate now so looks like im just gonna have to download everything now

can you tell ME what to do? I'm sort of a technical support junkie at this point... just PM it to me if you feel like it.