No CD-rom available error

[amishcow]

the game aborts

[Kapn_Koopa]

Is your CD-rom a different letter than D? My cd rom drive is F so I had to change it. If you go into the Pandora Directive directory in your steam folder, and open dosboxtex4.cfg and change this line "MOUNT D D:\ -t cdrom" change the second D to whatever your CD rom drive is, so I changed mine to "MOUNT D F:\ -t cdrom" and that fixed it. Hope that helps.

[Nodnarb]

i had to do what captain_koopa said. i also cant launch from steam. i have to launch the game from the dos emulator. along with mounting the cdrom, i also mounted the folder the tex4.exe file is installed so i only need to type tex4. there is a readme file that walks you through how to mount drives

[Fredrik]

I don´t even have a CD Drive in my computer, am i not able to play the game in any way then ?

[Blinglee]

cant find the dosbox in there

[Blinglee]

man

[sbenrap]

Originally posted by Blinglee:

man

What do you mean? DosBox is part of the release.

[Little Lady Luv]

I just downloaded this game as well and I get the "no cd rom available" then the game aborts. I run on Windows 7 32bit netbook, can someone help me make this game run? btw since it is a netbook I dont have a cdrom driver

[Cannibal #YOLOcaust]

Try mapping one of your local directories to a virtual "D:" drive. The game loads for me when i do that even without an optical drive in my laptop.

[Jonny-o]

What worked for me on Windows 10 was creating a 1 GB virtual hard drive and assigning it drive D.

1. Open Computer Management. (START > Windows Administrative Tools > Computer Management.)

2. Right-click Disk Management > Create VHD.

3. Click Browse. Navigate to your C Drive (if it doesn't go there automatically). Click New Folder. Give it a name, such as "VHD". Double-click on the new folder to open it.

4. In File name: give your VHD a name. Can be anything. "newVHD" for example, then click Save.

5. For virtual hard disk size, give it 1 GB. Leave the other options at their defaults and click OK.

Now the new virtual hard disk has been created but is by default "turned off" so we need to turn it on.

6. Right click the new disk where it says "Not Initialized" > Initialize. Leave at defaults and click Ok.

7. Right click where it says "Unallocated" > New Simple Volume.

8. Click next until you see "Assign the following drive letter". Set it to D. Click next two or three more times, then Finish.

Now try running the game.

Other possible workarounds:

1. Stick an old USB drive in and assign it drive D. 1 GB is enough space. More than 2 GB might cause problems because of old DOS limitations.

2. Get a program like daemon tools or vitual clone drive to create a virtual CD as your D drive. Some of those programs auto-dismount virtual CD drives if there's no disc image mounted, so you might need to check the option which forces empty drives to still appear.

What DID NOT work:

In C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Pandora Directive\config.ini

I changed Disk1=D to Disk1=C. The game started but crashed at the load screen.

However, if your D drive is for some reason unavailable, you can create a virtual hard drive using the steps above and assign it to E (or any free letter), then change Disk1=E (or the other drive letter you chose).

Before you make changes to config.ini, make a copy as a backup.