Installing A Game In My Computer

[Storm]

Okay, i'm having trouble installing a game to my computer.
Basically, when it's installing the files to my computer, it gets to 53% and says I need to put disc 2 in. I don't own the actual cd, just the files thats in it.

[Rob Belding]

did you download cd images?


such as two really large files with possible file name extensions of:

.iso
.bin
.nrg

??

[Storm]

Yea, I guess so, the files .bin and .cue files and I extraced them using magiciso, I have the files that are cd2

Here's the link to the one I d/l
http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3297982

[Rob Belding]

you could save yourself a lot of time by just taking 2 cheap cd-r discs and burning each image to it using Nero (or whatever burning software u use)


then install from the cds because some games wont let you browse to a directory where your files are located because they assume you actually have the physical product

[Bg_Knocc_Out]

I need help with that shit to, I downloaded Civiliazation awile back and i had no clue how to install it after I downloaded it, btw it was a torrent.

[Storm]

you could save yourself a lot of time by just taking 2 cheap cd-r discs and burning each image to it using Nero (or whatever burning software u use)


then install from the cds because some games wont let you browse to a directory where your files are located because they assume you actually have the physical product

oh okay, thanks. So I would be burning those files to a disc, not the files extracted from them.

[Rob Belding]

yea with your burning software look for an option such as "burn image" and browse to the the .cue file for the first disc and then burn it


do the same for the second .cue file


The cue files are associated with the large .bin files and they hold some kind of information that the burning software uses... i forget what though

[Storm]

Oh ok and I only burn the .cue files right.

[Rob Belding]

yea the cue files


but in reality all the actual data which is being burned to the cd resides in the bin files..


bin files can be burned if you dont have the cues .....but some software doesnt permit you too



ps do you have the cd key?

[Storm]

oh ok thanks for the info. And, yea I do have the cd key, theres some other things I might ask but for now im ok. I did research to solve the problem but couldn't solve it so I went here.

[Jet Set]

Using Daemon Tools and mounting the images on a virtual drive might have been easier. Just if you didn't want to burn it and undertsand virtual drives.