>>>I have playing Diablo 2.. but need to put the "play disk" in CDROM..
>>>
>>>It will be much harmful to my CDROM if it is Long time to Run....
>>>
>>>Is it possible to make a Virtual CD Drive with a specified Harddisk Location?
>>>
>>>e.g. F: is the Virtual ROOT of D:\Program Files\Diablo II
>>>
>>>and the system icon for F: is CDROM... not a network Drive icon.. :)
>>>
>>>Thanks..
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>>You can from a DOS prompt or in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
>>
>>SUBST X: C:\folder
>>
>>Note that if you're running W95/W98 that folder name must be a DOS 8.3 type name, not a long name. This is true for putting it in your AUTOEXEC.BAT, anyways.
>>
>>If you want an icon to show up put this file in the folder:
>>AUTORUN.INF
>>[AutoRun]
>>ICON=c:\icons\youricon.ico
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>Well, Surely I can't do SUBST in Autoexec.bat
>
>In DOS help, it has already mention that you can't use this SUBST or other MAPPING on same local hd
>if you need run WINDOWS!
>I was trying this and the machine Resource Down Over 20%...
>Because loading harddisk, finding harddisk will find twice....
>Especially a Norton UT installed, once you add/remove a file, the UnErase process Cost big Resource Consume!


Well, whoever told you that would be wrong! You most certainly can do SUBST in your AUTOEXEC.BAT. I get almost no noticable hit on resources, either. And I use Norton, too.

>
>Well, Finally I find a Cheating File... From Diablo 2 Top 200 site.. :)
>run the "DLoad.exe" and it work fine.. ^_^"

Glad you got it working.