Well, I’m completely stumped with this one. I’ve tried everything I can think of and nothing has worked. 🙁 I’m out of ideas.
I had a hell of a time resetting everything back to basics. Even after uninstalling Daemon Tools and Alcohol 120%, it still kept seeing the emulated drive. I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of it. Even disconnecting the physical drive still had it showing up in My Computer. I even disconnected everything. At one point, disconnecting the CD drive prevented Windows from loading.
I tried re-installing Daemon Tools and Alcohol and it wouldn’t let me. Complained that the bus/driver was still present from before. Had to trawl through everywhere to remove them in Windows, the Device Manager, and the Registry Editor. Managed to remove the old emulated drive in the end by removing all SCSI devices. It put the main one back on again, but at least it had removed the old drive. Once Alcohol and Daemon Tools were back on, I tried reinstalling the game first using the CDs in the physical drive. The game loaded up properly without asking for the disc. Uninstalled it, created a new emulated drive from Daemon Tools, set it as the E drive, installed the game from the image - still gave me the error about inserting the correct CD. 🙁
Unmounted the drive and set it up in Alcohol instead - same issue still. I even tried tricking it by just having the physical drive active, reinstalled the game, it loaded fine, and then re-set an emulated drive, and switched that to E. Mounted the image - same error. 🙁
I did notice in Daemon Tools that the physical CD drive has 1:0 in brackets. The emulated drive is 0:0. I’m guessing the emulated drive needs to be 1:0…? Not sure how though. Even setting it to E in the device manager, and the physical to F, it still lists it as 0:0. 🙁
So yeah, totally lost with this.
OS: Windows 98 SE
CPU: Pentium III Katmai 450MHz (SL35D)/Pentium III Coppermine 933MHz (SL448)
RAM: SK Hynix 128MB 100MHz/Kingston 256MB 133MHz
GPU: Nvidia 16MB Riva TNT/Geforce 128MB 4 MX 440
Motherboard: MSI-6156/Abit BE6-II