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Title: Ghost Drives? Post by: Rossi on Saturday, September 10, 2005, 21:04:18 Hello.
When you download some films or games or whatever, sometimes they are in a format where you can only burn them onto CD/DVD to get them to work. I downloaded a film a while ago in this format, and somehow (I can't remember how) managed to make a ghost drive (which is another drive that appears in "my computer", and the computer assumes that it is a CD drive, so that you can play the file. Only thing is I can't remember how I did it. Any ideas how I can get it to work again so that I don't have to burn it to DVD? Title: Ghost Drives? Post by: land_of_bo on Saturday, September 10, 2005, 21:08:52 being a sad techie i can help. you can substitute the folder name for a drive letter that is free, it will make windows think it is another drive.
If the film is in a folder called FILM on your C: drive you do the following Start>Run type in subst w: c:\film That will make the film folder appear as a W: drive in my computer... Title: Ghost Drives? Post by: Rossi on Saturday, September 10, 2005, 21:18:25 Cheers but nothing seems to happen when I do it
Title: Ghost Drives? Post by: land_of_bo on Saturday, September 10, 2005, 21:21:35 wont work if the folder name the film is in has spaces in it...
you'd have to put quotes round the "c:\folder name" bit Title: Ghost Drives? Post by: Rossi on Saturday, September 10, 2005, 21:34:41 Ok I don't think I did it right...
I did what you said, and copied and pasted the location into the end bit (F:\Movies\Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith\film), I put all that in "s. I now have a new drive, but when I click, it just opens the folder that the actual file is in, but doesn't play it. Do I need to put the file name at the end as well? If yes how do I do it because I can't change or delete the drive now Title: Ghost Drives? Post by: land_of_bo on Saturday, September 10, 2005, 21:42:03 You dont need to put the file name
The drive will delete when you reboot or you can do subst w: /delete to get rid manually.... Once you got that drive tho can't you just open powerdvd or whatever you use and then point that to the new drive where revenge of the sith it?? Title: Ghost Drives? Post by: Rossi on Saturday, September 10, 2005, 22:27:06 It's alright I've sorted it now, I found a program called Blindwrite which has sorted it out for me. Cheers anyway though
Title: Ghost Drives? Post by: Nomoreheroes on Saturday, September 10, 2005, 23:58:39 Ahhhh....Where did you get the film from ? Is there a torrent somewhere ? My kids are mad on Star Wars so would love to get it too.
NMH Title: Ghost Drives? Post by: oxford_fan on Sunday, September 11, 2005, 11:20:57 you don't need to burn .bin/.cue files for them to work, you just need "iso buster".
Title: Ghost Drives? Post by: Rossi on Sunday, September 11, 2005, 18:42:03 Quote from: "Nomoreheroes" Ahhhh....Where did you get the film from ? Is there a torrent somewhere ? My kids are mad on Star Wars so would love to get it too. NMH I've got the dodge version that was released just before it came out at the cinema, so it has a load of numbers in the top left corner. Have a look on any torrent site and you should find it, although it will take a whilse to download as it will probably be at least 1GB |