Loading software CD's onto hardrive??

[cruiseroutfit]

I have a map program that has seven discs. Basically you open the program, select the maps you want to look at and it will ask you to insert "x" disc. Then if your moving around it might ask for another disc.

Is there a way to copy all the contents of the CD onto the hardrive (easy), but get the software to recognize the fact you have them all loaded, so it won't prompt for you to load a new disc?

TIA...

 

[Caleb]

A quick way is to make a disc image an then mount it, then when it looks for the disc it will appear as though you have the disc in the drive. Otherwise, I am pretty sure there is a way, I just can't remember right now

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Disc image?? Mount it???

 

[Meat_]

Is it TOPO! (national geographic Utah)? If so I've made that into a DVD, you can have it as a DVD or mount it as an image on the HD.... I have it on a network drive and can scroll the entire state... I don't need no stinking cds

 

[Meat_]

Here's a free program that does what you need.... I've never tried this program

I use Alcohol 120% but it is not free.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

I'll give that program a try...

The software (AllTopoUtah) says in the owners manual that it will NOT run on a network setup, to protect them blah, blah, blah

It has a cache file, that I can set for up to 2GB, but I think all of the maps are more than this??

 

[Meat_]

With 7 discs it should be way bigger than 2GB.

Most image software will work around thier blah blah blah... some better than others.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

With 7 discs it should be way bigger than 2GB.

Most image software will work around thier blah blah blah... some better than others.

I figured each disc has 550 mb of map data, and when it puts them into cache, it also caches a .bmp file of each map. I guess the way to do it would be to override the 2GB limit?

 

[78mitsu]

I have a map program that has seven discs. Basically you open the program, select the maps you want to look at and it will ask you to insert "x" disc. Then if your moving around it might ask for another disc.

Is there a way to copy all the contents of the CD onto the hardrive (easy), but get the software to recognize the fact you have them all loaded, so it won't prompt for you to load a new disc?

TIA...

Build a batch file, copy this to the content. uses two arguments sourcepath and destination path, destination path requires a "\" at the end to tell you it's a directory. You can also use the bare xcopy command.


@echo off
Usage is copydisklocal <Sourcepath> <Destination Path>
xcopy %1 %2 /c /e /v /d /h /f

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Build a batch file, copy this to the content. uses two arguments sourcepath and destination path, destination path requires a "\" at the end to tell you it's a directory. You can also use the bare xcopy command.


@echo off
Usage is copydisklocal <Sourcepath> <Destination Path>
xcopy %1 %2 /c /e /v /d /h /f

And where would I paste that???

 

[78mitsu]

And where would I paste that???

Create a text file then copy the stuff in to it then re-name it whatever.bat, you have to call the whatever.bat from the command shell or a shell contributor like "run"

Go Start->Run type c:\<path to Bat>\whatever.bat d:\(I assume Cdrom) c:\savedcds\topostuff\cd1\

if you have spaces in the names, you have to qualify them with " so
Go Start->Run type c:\<path to Bat>\whatever.bat "d:\(I assume Cdrom)" "c:\saved cds\topo stuff\cd1 stuff\"

this doesn't create a cd "Image" it makes a file for file copy on the HDD following each directory tree one at a time.

 

[OldGeezer]

I did this: http://www.igage.com/MapsFD.htm Works fine.

 

[Unimog]

If you want to mount an image, Microsoft has a utility that works with Windows to do that. See http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4402.html

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Thanks for all the help

OldGeezer: I don't know how I missed that on their website, but that did the trick... I have all the software on the computer now Thanks!

 

[OldGeezer]

Your welcome. It sure is nice not having to carry all the data discs around. And the speed increase made it even more worth it.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Your welcome. It sure is nice not having to carry all the data discs around. And the speed increase made it even more worth it.

Your not kidding... I can move through the maps much quicker now. Thanks again!