Windows 2000 Disc drive problem

[Myrdradek]

So I'm trying to play a game. To view the opening movie in the game, the disc has to be in the disc drive. So I turned the disc into an ISO, loaded it on to Virtualbox, and installed it so that it needs the disc to play. However, when I try to play it says "Please insert the CD-Rom "Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure" in your CD-ROM drive and press okay to continue". When I go to My Computer, it clearly says that the disc is in the D: drive so I have no idea what's going wrong. Please help.

And before you ask, I'm trying to show a friend a hilariously terrible game from my childhood, which is why I'm trying to play a cereal tie-in game.

[dlharper]

I remember that during the days of DOS and floppy disks (and indeed earlier) a number of games used non-standard disk structure as a form of copy protection. This might be things like unusual sector sizes or sector numbers. This sort of data is lost in a image file, and a program requiring it will not work in a VM.

This technique wasn't used as much for CDs, as far as I remember, but it might have been for some. If that is the case, then you will never get it to run from an ISO.

If this is the case, then your only option will be to use the original CD in the host drive.

Sorry to be negative, but I fear what you are looking for may be impossible.

[mpack]

If it is required to run the physical CD, then turn on "Passthrough" mode in the CD settings, otherwise deliberate sector errors may not be reproduced in the VM.

[Myrdradek]

Well the weird thing is that when I install the whole game instead of just the parts that work with the CD-ROM it works fine, it just doesn't play the intro so I don't know why someone would do copy protection like that and just prevent the intro from being accessible.

Also I tried enabling Passthrough, but it didn't seem to change anything.

[mpack]

Also I tried enabling Passthrough, but it didn't seem to change anything.

Well, that would imply that the chain of logic built so far is based on a false premise, i.e. that the software is copy protected. It may instead just be a bug, in which case it's the game designers who you'd need to approach for support. (Yes I know: fat chance. Doesn't change the facts tho).

[Myrdradek]

Hmmm. Well if anyone thinks of anything tell me, but if not, thanks for offering help anyway!