Is there any chance you've got more than one drive on the machine that can 
read CD-type media?  I recall some games in the past where the code checking 
for the CD would stop at the first such device found.  [At the time, I had a 
couple of machines with 4-disk CD changer drives, which looked to software 
like four CD-ROM drives.  These days, most of my machines include a DVD-RW 
drive and a DVD or CD player drive -- but most modern games have fixed that 
bug.]

David Gillett


On 25 Nov 2006 at 9:04, Michael Lanspa wrote:

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> It appears to this novice that my CD-ROM on my HP (Win 98) isn't able to read the CD of one of the game CD's I loaded. Others work fine.  I loaded the game and then got the intro screen to "Play"' and when I choose play it says I need to insert the CD, which is already in the drive.  So I eject/re-insert --- same thing.  I've tried going to the drive from My Computer and executing the program, same thing.  Is there some file in the game's directory I need to edit or check to make the CD readable in the CD-ROM? 
 As I said, this is the only one of several games I've put on the computer that is having this problem.
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