BF2142 Image

[rainy]

This is for those who haven't done it yet, but would like to preserve their BF2142 DVD a bit longer.

There is no way to make a working mini image out of a BF2142 DVD like it was possible with BF2. If you have enough HDD space, you can however make a full working image. Here's how:

- Get Blindwrite 5 (www.blindwrite.com)
- Install and Start
- In the application menu to the left, select "Read"
- In the main window, select your source drive (the one with the BF2142 DVD)
- Select the location where to save the image
- Set profile to Automatic (if it is not set already)
- Click the "Read" button and wait for a few minutes

To mount the image, the best thing to do is to get Daemon Tools 4 (www.daemon-tools.cc), install it requires a reboot) and then mount the image into a virtual drive by right-clicking on the Daemon Tools tray icon.

That's it, from now on you can leave your original DVD on the shelf. All you need to play 2142 is the mounted image.

Thanks to Bass for the information!

StokeEdit:
If it does not work, disable your existing real DVD/CD drives, as follows:
-Right Click 'My Computer'
- click 'properties'
- click 'hardware'
- 'device manager'
- 'DVD/CD-ROM Drives'
- Choose a real [not virtual DEAMON drive], right click, choose disable.
- Choose Disable to disable the drive. [DO NOT DISABLE YOUR C: DRIVE MKAY!]
- Disable all IDE (ie, real not virtual) drives.

[stoke]

Thanks. Will do tonight. My DVD is beginning to look like a record.

[TG]

Ahh awesome. Been waiting for this.
Hmm. Will it work for BlindWrite 6, as I see that is the download version. I'll try it.

[rainy]

Try it and report back

[FeralBanana]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
This means i don't have to buy another DVD drive!

THanks guys! Will see you PROPERLY on the battlefield from my DESKTOP PC not my LAPTOP soon! No more lag

(you might not have noticed, but the DVD drive on my desktop fried, and I've had to play on my laptop , now though I can play on my desktop even without a DVD drive)


THANKS RAINY AND BASS!

[Bass]

Thanks Rainy for posting this - I did mention how to do this when we got 2142, but just in the shoutbox I think, so the info obviously got lost & not everyone saw it. Kudos to you !

[TG]

Alcohol can't mount the new bw6 format (yet).
I'm not going to install daemon tools cuz I've got a licensed copy of Alcohol.

[rainy]

You can still get BW5 for download.

http://www.vso-software.fr/download_...hp?product=bw5

[TG]

Ahh. spanks. Will try that later.

[Eyewitness]

THANK YOU I really needed this, I dont have a cable for my dvd drive (recently it broke) so i have to borrow a cable from my other harddrive. so yeah. problem solved.