Please insert correct CD

**Coeur de Lion** · May 28, 2010, 05:02 PM

Thanks! Luck is my last resort!!
I think I'll reinstall M2TW as well, incase any of the changes I've made won't take affect unless I reinstall.

**irishron** · May 28, 2010, 05:04 PM

Reinstall it C:\Games with the UAC disabled and see if that helps, too.

**Coeur de Lion** · May 28, 2010, 09:09 PM

He stood upon the mound of the dead, his face barely visible beneath the mud and blood. He looked to his left as a figure clambered up next to him, he smiled, passing a cup to him. Another man climbed up to his right. They lifted their cups to the sky and drank deeply.

Together, Coeur de Lion, Irishron and PoleCat had vanquished their enemies.
Thankyou gentlemen...I am eternally grateful.

**PoleCat** · May 28, 2010, 09:49 PM

So it was iTunes that was screwing you over? I wonder what conflict that could cause in a DVD driver....

Must be some very stupid copy-protection/anti-image scheme.

Anyway, glad it worked!

**irishron** · May 28, 2010, 10:34 PM

2PoleCat, think Steve Jobs. He hates Microsoft more than we do.

**Coeur de Lion** · May 29, 2010, 03:40 AM

The painful part is that I can't live without my iTunes!! For the moment I will bask in the glory of victory, but I will have to find some way that they can live together.

**gibbo9000** · June 05, 2010, 08:13 PM

In case it helps I have just been upgrading from an old XP box to Win7 64 on a i3 processor/intel mobo - and continually encountered this 'Please insert correct DVD-ROM' issue on M2TW and a few similar games. As with others I am using original DVDs and licence that were running fine on old XP machine.

3 weeks, much frustration, and having trawled through all the tech and non-tech forums I traced it through all the discussions about virtual drives and drivers back to the IDE ATA/ATAPI device driver (in Device Manager). It needs to be (at least on my new machine) in the older ATA mode - not in the newer AHCI mode. If it is in AHCI mode it seems that M2TW just can't find the DVD drive when it tries to start the game (whether physical, in a hard disk directory, emulated with Daemon, or through Virtual PC on Win7 Pro). It can find it for setup etc. just not when it tries to run. I know there is no panacea, but in my case this was best fixed by removing the Intel Matrix Storage Manager that in turn removed the Intel AHCI driver and replaced it with the ATA drivers (Channel 0, 1, 2 etc.) and some Standard AHCI driver at the end of the list. Note that in Win7 Pro this needed to be on the main operating system, not in the Virtual PC one.

The alternate, which is how I trapped the problem, but a nastier solution, was to change the motherboard BIOS from 'AHCI' enabled to 'IDE Driver' and then reload the whole operating system (as many have described how to go from IDE to AHCI without rebuilding - but not the other way) - but again, this is a specific setting for the Intel motherboard in this machine.

Anyway - hope this may help at least one person get closer to the answer on this frustrating journey!!

M2TW now runs with no modifications to compatability or UAC. You do need to let it install DX9 on Win7 (which also seems nutty to me)!

**irishron** · June 05, 2010, 09:00 PM

@gibbo9000, thank you for the info. I have Win 7 Pro 64bit on a mobo less than a year old and I have had no prblems with it finding cds or dvds. Both of my dvd-roms are still IDE if that makes a difference.

**gibbo9000** · June 06, 2010, 12:45 AM

Originally Posted by irishron

Both of my dvd-roms are still IDE if that makes a difference.

I sense that is the difference - IDE and ATA drivers seem fine from all I ended up reading (and I assume your IDE drives use IDE drivers!) - it is some combination of AHCI and virtual disks that seemed to create the problems I had. It is in that nasty category of not quite software, but not quite hardware either.

**irishron** · June 06, 2010, 06:42 AM

Originally Posted by gibbo9000

I sense that is the difference - IDE and ATA drivers seem fine from all I ended up reading (and I assume your IDE drives use IDE drivers!) - it is some combination of AHCI and virtual disks that seemed to create the problems I had. It is in that nasty category of not quite software, but not quite hardware either.

I have had a sense of this for about two years when the ATA dvd-roms were first being sold but I could not put my finger on it and you did. Is this why the trouble with the new blu-ray ones?