Resolved Disable/bypass CD check

This is a technical question, NOT a pirating one. I am installing an old laptop for a friend's kid with a lot of old educational CDs. The CDs have all been legally purchased and paid for and format shifting is legal in my country. It just saves a whole lot of hassle to put the CDs on the hard drive. Some allow this, others have been converted to ISOs. Everything works fine except for one tiny detail that has been driving me up the wall for three days now.

One CD, in spite of the virtual drive, insists on checking that there is a physical CD in the actual drive. This is a very primitive copy protection check from 1995. The software doesn't care what CD is in the drive. It even works with a blank one! But I can't get it to work without anything.

It does work fine if the drive is disabled but the only software I have been able to find that does this will only work with user input, not from a command line. What I need to know is if there is a command line interface program out there capable of disabling/enabling the CD drive on the hop or, alternatively, how I might be able to bypass or disable this detection mechanism.

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

Hi rikki,

You can paint it anyway you want but unfortunately we cannot help you bypass copy protection. However I see no issues assisting with disableing your CD drive.

Have you looked at Enable/disable a device from the command line?

 

@Wildfire:

Thank you SO much! I didn't know about Devcon and it didn't turn up in any of my searches but I just checked it out and it's exactly what I needed. Nothing in my experience beats Windows BBS for real answers to thorny problems.

I appreciate that my issue probably falls into a grey area, though as I tried to explain, this is in regard to legally obtained software and any protection has already been bypassed if you want to put it in those terms. I was just trying to solve an irritating side effect of transferring the CDs to a hard drive and you answered that beautifully. Thanks again.

 

Glad I could help rikki

Don't take my comment personally, as you acknowledged it was kind of a grey area. I was merely pointing out to anyone else reading the thread that WindowsBBS does not condone piracy and users will not receive assistance in such activities.