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[hh42]

Hello. I have been using Alcohol 52% for several years now (it is the FULL version, which came ->FREE<- with a finnish magazine's (KotiMikro) cd-rom, they said you guys gave them permission to distribute it?) Anyway, I am not able to create virtual drives anymore : ( I had tried to install daemon tools since my version of Alcohol didn't support b6t-files, but DT wasn't able to create a virtual drive, so I uninstalled it, and now I am not able to create a virtual drive anymore using Alchohol! I have tried un/re-installing Alcohol but it hasn't done anything.

I can create a virtual drive, but it takes about 20 times longer than normal, then it doesn't have any drive letter, and when I try to assign it to anything from H to Z, it just dissappears?! Please help : (

Oh, and did you need the system report?

[ptolomeus3]

Hello hh42,

You should really install the actual version of Alcohol 52%, we have actually a Free Edition here: http://www.free-down...2__Free_Edition

[hh42]

Thanks, but the problem still remains. When I try to add a virtual drive, the Windows' usual "new device found"-bubble pops up, then I can see the drive for a while in My Computer, but before I can mount any image, the bubble says "the device has been installed eg..." and then the virtual drive disappears from both My Computer AND from Alcohol?! : (

[zamiel]

Have you tried installing in Safe Mode?

[hh42]

No... I'll try that and see if it helps.

[Charalambos]

Just for as to know, which version of Alcohol do you have installed now?
If you did as ptolomeus said( and you should do if you didn't) you must now have the latest version 1.9.7.6621 insalled, is it so?

[hh42]

Sorry for taking so long,

Yes, I have the latest version installed now.

And now I tried to create a virtual drive in safe mode, I couldn't do that since Windows said "problem in device installation" or something like that?

Edited by hh42, 14 March 2008 - 12:48 PM.

[hh42]

Oh never mind, the "problem in device installation" was just caused by my HDD and has nothing to do with this..

But anyway, I couldn't create any virtual drives in safe mode either.

[Charalambos]

Can you now( after solving your problem with your HDD)?

[hh42]

The HDD thing isn't really a problem (or is it?), Windows just keeps asking me to install some drivers for my new HDD every time I restart Windows... But could this cause the error in Alcohol??

[Charalambos]

Does your HDD function allright? Do you have other similar problems? Perhaps it is just time to reformat...

[hh42]

My HDD works perfectly, but XP asks me to install some drivers to it. Vista found it without any drivers needed.

Oh, and by the way, I checked that Alcohol works on my Vista, but not on XP? Strange. But I'd still like to get it working on XP, since I don't really use Vista yet.

[Charalambos]

Have you installed Alcohol in both of your OSes( if not then you must)? Also you can try uninstalling Alcohol and SPTD in your XP OS/partition and then install them in safe mode. For uninstallation/installation of SPTD you can use the standalone installer/uninstaller from www.duplexsecure.com( the current version is 1.56 now). Before that you should look however in the Device Manager for devices with a question or exclamation mark beside them( after trying to create a virtual drive) and in the Event Viewer for any error entries.

[hh42]

Sorry for the delay, I was busy with stuff in real life.

The funny thing is that Alchol works on Vista, even though I've installed it on XP and it doesn't work on XP.

The other thing that's been bugging me is that I can't run any 16-bit applications, like installation programs for older games. I know that I've managed to run them in this PC in the past, so I don't know why I can't anymore.

Maybe I should just re-install XP. But would I lose all my stuff and settings then? Sorry for being noobish but I don't know since I've never needed to re-install an OS.

[Charalambos]

You can use your Windows XP CD to do a Repair Install, in this case I think that you won't loose your documents and settings( but I haven't done it my self so I'm not absolutely sure).