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GrizzlyNixus
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Unable to find cd-rom/DVD drive on this computer

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I'm trying to install Morrowind on my computer. It installed fine from the DVD but when I try to play it it says Unable to find cd-rom/DVD drive on this computer. I have created a drive and mapped it to the DVD and set the type to CD-ROM without avail. Help?
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Re: Unable to find cd-rom/DVD drive on this computer

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GrizzlyNixus wrote:I'm trying to install Morrowind on my computer. It installed fine from the DVD but when I try to play it it says Unable to find cd-rom/DVD drive on this computer. I have created a drive and mapped it to the DVD and set the type to CD-ROM without avail. Help?
If you are talking about the Game Morrowind, there is an applications database page for it. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=1015
Please look at the page and see if there is an answer there.

Also, when you created the mount point, did you give all users at least read permissions?

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Re: Unable to find cd-rom/DVD drive on this computer

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jjmckenzie wrote:
GrizzlyNixus wrote:I'm trying to install Morrowind on my computer. It installed fine from the DVD but when I try to play it it says Unable to find cd-rom/DVD drive on this computer. I have created a drive and mapped it to the DVD and set the type to CD-ROM without avail. Help?
If you are talking about the Game Morrowind, there is an applications database page for it. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=1015
Please look at the page and see if there is an answer there.

Also, when you created the mount point, did you give all users at least read permissions?

James
I read through that page and others looking for a solution and found others having the same problem. What they did to fix it was create a drive and map it to the DVD. I did that but it still said Unable to find cd-rom/DVD drive on this computer. I'm running Linux and don't know how to do much.
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Re: Unable to find cd-rom/DVD drive on this computer

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GrizzlyNixus wrote: I read through that page and others looking for a solution and found others having the same problem. What they did to fix it was create a drive and map it to the DVD. I did that but it still said Unable to find cd-rom/DVD drive on this computer. I'm running Linux and don't know how to do much.
This is most likely a copy protection issue. I believe Morrowind uses SafeDisc 2.x, which should work in Wine compiled with GCC 4.5 but is broken in GCC 4.6.

http://wiki.winehq.org/GccVersions
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22053
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