Bizarre CD problems!

[Guest]

I have about 50 educational games I bought for my grandchildren. They are
really scratching them, so I decided to copy the games and install them on a
computer they can use at home. Some of the copies work fine and others seem
to hang up. A lot of the games I simply copied to the hard drive and
eliminated the need for the CD altogether. But not all games allowed me to
do this. Recently, when I was loading on the last several games, I started
to have problems. In the error messages section, I received a #7 Event ID,
"The device, \Device\Cdrom0, has a bad block. The Microsoft Support site
says to retry, clean player or clean disk. I've done this over and over.
Can you help me solve this problem, and is this the reason many of the CDs
are getting hung up? The CDs are only read only, and they are brand new.
I've wasted about a 100 discs due to this problem. Also, for those games
that will not allow me to copy them onto the harddrive (I get messages like
cyclic redundancy copy), do you know how I can bypass this to eliminate the
use of the CDs altogether? I have a 40GB hard drive, so I have lots of
room. Finally, even though I have told Windows XP NOT to autoplay, all of
the games still start automatically when they are inserted. Then my grandson
clicks on the icon and has two occurrences of the game running. How do I
really disable autoplay? Thanks so much. I am at my wit's end.

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi dgregrich,

If you want to repair the Autoplay issues, download the Autoplay fix from:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/3/2/2326455e-a840-4c61-bc28-3afa1820b240/AutoFix.exe

The utility has a Wizard which let's you choose the driver, reproduct the error
and it will then detect the cause and correct it.. automatically!

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dgregrich Wrote:
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| I have about 50 educational games I bought for my grandchildren. They are
| really scratching them, so I decided to copy the games and install them on a
| computer they can use at home. Some of the copies work fine and others seem
| to hang up. A lot of the games I simply copied to the hard drive and
| eliminated the need for the CD altogether. But not all games allowed me to
| do this. Recently, when I was loading on the last several games, I started
| to have problems. In the error messages section, I received a #7 Event ID,
| "The device, \Device\Cdrom0, has a bad block. The Microsoft Support site
| says to retry, clean player or clean disk. I've done this over and over.
| Can you help me solve this problem, and is this the reason many of the CDs
| are getting hung up? The CDs are only read only, and they are brand new.
| I've wasted about a 100 discs due to this problem. Also, for those games
| that will not allow me to copy them onto the harddrive (I get messages like
| cyclic redundancy copy), do you know how I can bypass this to eliminate the
| use of the CDs altogether? I have a 40GB hard drive, so I have lots of
| room. Finally, even though I have told Windows XP NOT to autoplay, all of
| the games still start automatically when they are inserted. Then my grandson
| clicks on the icon and has two occurrences of the game running. How do I
| really disable autoplay? Thanks so much. I am at my wit's end.

 

[Kyuzo]

What program are you using to copy and burn the CD? Nero? Sometimes you
cannot just copy and game to the hard drive and run it. Most of the time,
they will require you to insert the CD. That is why there are patches called
NO-CDs for games. Basically you download the EXE file and replace that with
the one installed on your hard drive. It will then bypass the CD insertion
portion.

 

[Thomas Kuck]

There are programs available like 'BlindWrite' that enable you to make a
so called 'image' of your original game (you only need an image of the
'play disk') which you can then mount with a virtual drive (DAEMON
Tools). Making copies of original game disks does not always work due to
the various copy protections, apart from this you should be ok provided
you keep in mind that distribution of copies of copyrighted programs is
illegal.

I have about 50 educational games I bought for my grandchildren. They are
really scratching them, so I decided to copy the games and install them on a
computer they can use at home. Some of the copies work fine and others seem
to hang up. A lot of the games I simply copied to the hard drive and
eliminated the need for the CD altogether. But not all games allowed me to
do this. Recently, when I was loading on the last several games, I started
to have problems. In the error messages section, I received a #7 Event ID,
"The device, \Device\Cdrom0, has a bad block. The Microsoft Support site
says to retry, clean player or clean disk. I've done this over and over.
Can you help me solve this problem, and is this the reason many of the CDs
are getting hung up? The CDs are only read only, and they are brand new.
I've wasted about a 100 discs due to this problem. Also, for those games
that will not allow me to copy them onto the harddrive (I get messages like
cyclic redundancy copy), do you know how I can bypass this to eliminate the
use of the CDs altogether? I have a 40GB hard drive, so I have lots of
room. Finally, even though I have told Windows XP NOT to autoplay, all of
the games still start automatically when they are inserted. Then my grandson
clicks on the icon and has two occurrences of the game running. How do I
really disable autoplay? Thanks so much. I am at my wit's end.

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