Music problem with a CivII VCD setup

[reismark]

Need some help, friends. I decided after years of going without a good barbarian-slaying session to dust off my CivII discs and get her going on my new Acer laptop. I primarily only use the laptop while traveling, so since I'd rather not carry around the discs, I made a .nrg image using Nero 7, mounted using ImageDrive, and installed from there.

It plays beautifully, heralds/videos and all, except for one thing: No music. When I try to select a track, it says that there's no CD in the drive. I know it's not the image file, since Windows Media Player can find and play the music without a problem. OK, so the game must be looking in the empty physical drive rather than the mounted virtual one: Thing is, I can't figure out for the life of me how to fix it. Tried looking through the registry; only setting I could find (HKLM\Software\MicroProse Software\Civilization II Multiplayer Gold Edition\CD Path) was set to the virtual drive. Checked the civ.ini file; no WhereIsCD setting (and adding it with the proper path achieved nothing).

Any ideas, guys? I'm using MGE with Patch 3 installed.

[Mercator]

The only thing I can think of is to swap the driver letters of the physical and virtual drives, so the virtual drive becomes the first of the two (D:, presumably).

You can change the drive letter of the physical drive through Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management.

Whether you can change the drive letter of the virtual drive is another matter. I don't know Nero. But if that can't do it, I'm sure some other mounting tool can. I think Daemon Tools can do it.

[reismark]

Merc, you're a genius. Did precisely that and it worked like a charm. (And since my writing, I'd switched to DAEMON Tools anyway because I upgraded my Nero and found that ImageDrive had been removed, presumably for legal reasons.)

Much thanks!