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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Games and the A: drive
- Keywords: Games Floppy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.211418.29579@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 21:14:18 GMT
- References: <8478@news.duke.edu>
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- In article <8478@news.duke.edu> dbhlve@acpub.duke.edu (Robert Newlin) writes:
- >This probably should be a FAQ, but I didn't find it. My kids got an
- >Ultima Game Set from Origin for Christmas. When I try to run it, it says
- >"Insert orginal disk on drive A:". I assume it is trying to read some
- >flakey sector or something. Is there some way I can get around this
- >without booting with DOS?
-
- Games that try to ignore DOS and directly read hard-drive sectors
- (like Lemmings) fail when trying to read a drive under OS/2. They
- can't directly access any sectors, and under specific DOS sessions,
- they think they're using network drives. So they always ask for the
- key disk in drive A:, when they can't directly access it on your hard
- drive.
-
- At least that's my theory.
-
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