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How to play old CD-ROM games on Windows again

You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar ...
Ars Technica

Windows XP NTLDR/"Cannot read CD"/etc errors

No matter what XP CD I use on whichever drive, the CD is not read properly.<BR><BR>So basically I am completely clueless as to what's going on. Please tell me it's my fault and not some bizarre ...
PC World

Windows 10 won’t run some older CD-ROM games, thanks to DRM

At the turn of the century, it was hard to find gamers—or gaming journalists, for that matter—who didn’t despise SecuRom and SafeDisc digital rights management copy protection on some of the top ...
Ars Technica

Install windows into bootcamp without using the internal CD

Brand new iMac - getting SAM Multimedia errors (google reports this as a bad optical drive) reading the windows XP CD-ROM at boot time (mac osx install media doesnt work either) all cd's read fine ...
CNET

Boot Camp (#6): Using a Windows XP upgrade CD; More on slipstreaming a Windows XP SP2 disc; Use of Control-Alt-Delete; more

Using a Windows XP upgrade CD The Boot Camp installation instructions claim that a valid full Windows XP SP2 disc is required and that upgrade discs cannot be used ...