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    Some (not all) CD applications can be run from hard drive by copying CD to drive and installing from there.

    If you try this, I advise creating a separate partition for each CD Application. Use some utility like Partition Magic, which will resize, move, create, and delete partitions. Partitions with data can be resized and/or moved without losing the data.

    Also, you can get Windows Explorer to display an Icon of your choice with each hard drive in the Tree View on the left side of the Explorer window. Do this by creating an autorun.inf in the root directory.
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    I used to do that alot before i got a CD burner.

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    I tend to use subst for things like this.
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    I just use a little freeware utility called Daemon which creates a virtual drive on my hard drive.

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    I sometimes get cracks too. For games i own too! The game seems to run faster if it never has to access the CD. Anyway, using a crack is legal if you own the program.

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