Parallels and Alcohol 52%?

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by Paul Linden, Apr 13, 2006.

  1. Paul Linden

    Paul Linden Member

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    I've been trying to get some of my old PC games up and running (well ... I can't think of what else I'd use Windows for) but have been having trouble with Civ III, which can't find the CD in the drive even though I start it from the CDROM.

    I thought I would try to get around any CDROM problems by using a CDROM disk image created and mounted inside Alcohol 52% (I do this with games on my PC laptop for when I have to travel, it avoids having to carry CDROMs around - I'm not pirating them, and although I might be on shaky ground legally, I personally think making a backup is fair use, but IANAL.).

    But when I try to create a virtual drive in Alcohol 52%, I get the message "SCSI/RAID Host Controller cannot be stopped ... " and there is no drive on which to mount the disk image. Has anyone on this forum or in Parallels tried using Alcohol 52% or 120%?
     
  2. robertcerny

    robertcerny Bit poster

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    Yeah, me. Doesn't work.
     
  3. Siker

    Siker Junior Member

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    I tried it too. Doesn't work. Neither does Daemon tools. They both seem to use a similar technique with a fake SCSI device which doesn't seem to work. Meanwhile, Windows XP keeps asking me if I want to reboot to finish installing the device, which doesn't help.
     

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