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TimWheeler
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 Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:13 am Post subject: Requires installation from original CD |
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So, I bought Virtual Guitarist 1 today and went to install it on my PC and after a few minutes looking at the registry, its telling me I must install from the original CD. Well, that's what I was installing it from. Bought a sealed box from Guitar Center, and its orignal.
I'm running XP.. which may be newer than it expects.. also, my CD on my system is my F: drive.
Is it as simple as tricking it into believing its installing from the d drive?
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TimWheeler
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:30 am Post subject: |
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Actually, boot drive is D: on this system. I want to install VG on E: My CD was F:, I just changed it to H:
Sounds confusing.. well it is, but I can't change the CD to D as that is my boot volume and will not allow me to change it.
Any help out there. I assure you its not a bootleg, at least not unless Guitar Center is into selling that type of thing.
Thanks,
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Tank
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:15 am Post subject: |
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It doesn't matter which letter your CD drive is. My CD drive is F and VG installed fine from it.
Just put CD1 into your drive and open up explorer and double click on autorun from the CD (F drive). Then select install and select where you want VG installed. You can choose different drives for the VSTi dll and the sounds.
I would uninstall and start again following the instructions I have given. You shouldn't be messing with the registry.
Good luck
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TimWheeler
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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That's what I tried, multiple times. There was nothing to uninstall, however, it never got that far.
I got it to install, however.
I copied the installation program to the desktop and ran it from there. It then installed the dll's. After that it quit, because it couldn't find the rest of the files.
I located the install directory and manually copied the rest of the sound files, manually, from the CD's, and it worked.
I'm thinking there's a weird combo of drive letters that was un-forseen. Anyways.. I'm up an running.
Thanks,
Tim
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lucky909091
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Today I had a similiar problem.
Did not accept my original-CD.
I returned everything in another DVD-Rom. It was running and running, but after 3 minutes he told me to insert the VG-2-update again.
SO from now on everything was O.K. |
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I too had this happen once, when installing to a laptop about 2 or 3 years ago. It's not an unusual problem.
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Tank
where is VG2
im here in the big apple NYC
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fury88
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| Tank wrote: | It doesn't matter which letter your CD drive is. My CD drive is F and VG installed fine from it.
Just put CD1 into your drive and open up explorer and double click on autorun from the CD (F drive). Then select install and select where you want VG installed. You can choose different drives for the VSTi dll and the sounds.
I would uninstall and start again following the instructions I have given. You shouldn't be messing with the registry.
Good luck
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I don't know but I am having the same problem. I am going to try what was suggested about copying files to my desktop. Oddly enough my new system with Vista has the DVD/CD drive as F:. I agree, Tank, that this shouldn't matter but something must be confused with the installation. |
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fury88
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| Still having this problem. I've all but given up but I'd really like to be able to use it. |
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Can you see if you can borrow an external CD drive? - I've had problems with modern drives not recognising certain protection methods, (Crysis game for instance wouldn't work on one of my drives).
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| kennymusicman wrote: | | Can you see if you can borrow an external CD drive? - I've had problems with modern drives not recognising certain protection methods, (Crysis game for instance wouldn't work on one of my drives). |
Dude I shared a CD drive from my other system and it worked!! Thanks a lot for the suggestion! You are right because my PC is brand new and it must be the new CD drive. Rock on!!  |
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plofstof
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Having the same problem. (Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition)
It seems that the CD-manufacturing process was simply not up to spec.
When I tried the desktop trick on my new PC, I got an error that the "vgee1.dat" file could not be read. I couldn't even copy it to my HDD. This read error probably triggered the "original CD" error.
I've tried copying this file from three different CD/DVD drives with now success.
| lucky909091 wrote: | | I returned everything in another DVD-Rom. It was running and running, but after 3 minutes he told me to insert the VG-2-update again. |
The fact that lucky909091's DVD-ROM drive took 3 minutes to read the disc is probably indicative of the same thing.
The drives are quite simply having a hard time reading the files.
Have a look at the original VG CD's surface and you'll notice a big concentric ring on the data surface.
Steinberg must have used some form of archaic primitive CD copy protection.
Years ago some software manufacturers purposefully printed unreadable portions on CDs. The installer then checks for a read error on that part of the CD to verify its authenticity. I suspect Steinberg might have tried this with VG.
I tried reading this particular file from original CD in three difference DVD-ROM drives with no success.
Just another example of how software manufacturers try so hard to boot out pirate copies that they make their own products inaccessible to legitimate users.
Fortunately my VG2 update edition did pass the VG1 CD check. My DVD-drive made horrible noises while checking for the "corrupted" file and after a couple of minutes VG2 cheerfully asked me to reinsert the installation DVD.
So I guess I'll have to do without VG1; which means that I'll have to redo all my old projects that used it.
UPDATE: I finally got VG1 (ee) installed as well after trying and retrying the copy-to-desktop trick.
I'm not sure what made it work this time but I copied all files except the unreadable vgee1.dat to the desktop.
(The first time I tried this I didn't copy the sound files in the OCTA/ROCK/S5WT etc directories to the desktop too, that may be why the trick didn't work then).
I ran the autorun.exe program, which oddly enough didn't show any text in the Readme page. I then selected to install the dlls only and it actually worked. |
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