That’s the thing for me, Classic example is my Windows CD’s I have three of them
and there at the point they do not read well in the CD/DVD drive.
But part of the DCMA arguement is that the media things are supplied on these
day’s are do not degrade in the same way floppy’s used to.
End of the day though CD’s Age with time, more so depending on sun exposure
and its not unknown for the CD’s to get scratched in the CD drives themselves.
I think that is why at present no law authority has ever enforced or prosocuted anyone in those places made illegal to do so.
dum de dum de dum,
I’ve been playing, can get Daemon Tools to work by script and it works well, it’ll load the CD & run the required app.but it means you have to turn off Autorun if it’s not off already.
AND I ned to get rid of 2 confirmation messages… I’ll be back
//edit
here you go, copy this to notepad, save it as a .vbs file and edit the two bits you need too, you’ll need to do it for each CD,
you need to turn off secure mode under options in Daemon Tools else it bleats each time a command line tries to run.
You will have to remember to turn off autorun too I can mod it to allow autorun to happen if you want.
Ps it also ejects the disk when the app closes
'Vers Name Date Reason
'---- ---- ---- ------
’ 1 Adam Plevin 28/02/06 Created
Option Explicit
Dim WshShell, application, program, imagepath, strcmd, oExec
Set WshShell = Wscript.CreateObject(“Wscript.Shell”)
'EDIT HERE
'path to the cd image
imagepath = “**"
'path to the executable
application = "”
'EDIT HERE
program = chr(34) & “C:\Program Files\Daemon Tools\Daemon.exe” & chr(34)
imagepath = chr(34) & imagepath & chr(34)
strcmd = program & " -mount 0, " & imagepath
wshshell.run strcmd
WScript.sleep 3000
Set oExec = WshShell.Exec(application)
Do While oExec.Status = 0
WScript.Sleep 100
Loop
strcmd = program & " -unmount 0"
wshshell.run strcmd
Wscript.Quit
I can mod it to allow autorun to happen if you want.
