The reason why the CD needs to be present is to verify that you own a copy of the game. If you want the least amount of CD ROM drive access, do a full install of the game so all the data is on the hard drive. It will then only access the CD ROM to verify the CD is there.

Why do you think your drive will be harmed if it's reading the CD?

Dave

>I have playing Diablo 2.. but need to put the "play disk" in CDROM..
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>It will be much harmful to my CDROM if it is Long time to Run....
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>Is it possible to make a Virtual CD Drive with a specified Harddisk Location?
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>e.g. F: is the Virtual ROOT of D:\Program Files\Diablo II
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>and the system icon for F: is CDROM... not a network Drive icon.. :)
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>Thanks..