Worms 2 no where to be found

[x-cessive]

Well I purchased W2 yesterday and was playing it for some time last night. Then this morning, when I turn on the PC it would not run. I decided to uninstall and then reinstall. It uninstalled but then the computer is saying that there is no disc in the drive when it clearly is.

Thanks for any help you have to offer,
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[franpa]

just keep ejecting and re-inserting it a couple hundred times.... it does this with me aswell... eventualy i decided to use a no-cd crack... but that took awhile aswell because i still needed the cd in order to get some stuff off of it... eventualy it all worked out tho.

repeat - just re-insert the cd a million times till the auto run screen comes up or till the game recognizes it.

[x-cessive]

Franpa, I love you. Anyone have any idea why this happens?

[franpa]

i havnt a clue as my (atleast 6 year old) copy is crystal clean with absoloutly no scratches what-so-ever and ive always used the cd except for recently... (goes to show cd's back then where made with higher quality materials) and uh i think the problem is related to either winXP or that the disc may just be slightly diff. from what todays discs are and new drives just have difficulty picking it up.

[bonz]

I'd guess it's the CD drive that is faulty.

Anyway, as soon as you can fully read the CD again, I suggest you make disk image of ASAP.
You can mount it as a virtual CD drive then. (Make sure you swap the drive letter to the lowest CD drive, of both the real and virtual drives.)

[franpa]

i still think that the disc is made of denser material (excluding the actual area the metal fillaments sit on)... but i also am aware that my dvd drive finds the disc every single time... its just that it is my second drive and thus the game doesnt find it.

[x-cessive]

Anyway, as soon as you can fully read the CD again, I suggest you make disk image of ASAP.
You can mount it as a virtual CD drive then.

How does one go about making it an image? I have power ISO but I'm not sure if that will do the job.

[franpa]

use nero burning rom or alcohol 120% (both are pay for products) or try deamon tools.

[Lex]

"ISO Recorder (http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm) is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images, copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder."

This is what I use to make ISOs. It's completely free and ridiculously easy.

Once the ISO is made, I mount it (quite easily) with Daemon Tools (http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php). It's as simple as eating a slice of pizza pie.