Using a CD-ROM drive with a label other than D: w/ FFVII

[Penquin]

I recently added another Hard Drive, so I switched some volume labels giving the second Hard Drive D: and E:, and moving my CD and DVD Drives to F: and G:. I went to play VII and to my suprise, I got an error message saying "Please insert FF7 Game Disc 1, 2, or 3". I've tried in both the CD(48x24x48x) and DVD(12x) and neither has worked. The disc (Disc 2/Game Disc 1, Eidos Platinum Edition) is not scratched. Is there a patch to fix this or a file I can edit? I have the FFVII XP patch from AnimeVamp, and the patch that came with the game and that's it. I noticed you guys recommended NOT using iXP patch, so is there a way to uninstall that? I'm assuming this is the problem because the Drive Labels is the only Hardware change since the last time I played.

Thanks in advance, and sorry if this causes anyone trouble or has been answered before.

-Penquin

[ice_cold513]

It is cos you switched your letters of your CD and DVD Drives.

You can do 2 things

1 uninstall the game and set it back up or 2 go to start /run then type C:\WINDOWS\regedit.exe then HKEY_LOCAL-MACHINE / square Soft, Inc / Final Fantasy VII then edit the ummmm Datapath to the new letter ooo and the movies too moviePath but i would just reset it up

[Penquin]

Thanks. I didn't think of the registry. It works now.

[EmperorSteele]

For the record, Windows also has a drive letter manager.  Each OS has a different way to get to it, but.. mweh, question's been resolved already, so mweh.

[Aaron]

I noticed you guys recommended NOT using iXP patch, so is there a way to uninstall that?

Yeah, well, if you just reinstall FF7, you should have gotten rid of most of the stuff that patch did (see this thread).  What's left is to restore your original GM.DLS file, which the patch overwrote.  You can get the original file from your Windows CD (you'll have to decompress it) and, depending on your OS, you may have to disable Windows file protection to put the file back.

[Penquin]

I just ran the uninstall for the XP Patch, and gm.dls is at 3,361 KB/3.361MB(Sligtly less, I just can't remember how many KBs to 1MB. Is it 1024, or is that just MBs to 1GB?). That's what it's supposed to be, right?

[ice_cold513]

I just ran the uninstall for the XP Patch, and gm.dls is at 3,361 KB/3.361MB(Sligtly less, I just can't remember how many KBs to 1MB. Is it 1024, or is that just MBs to 1GB?). That's what it's supposed to be, right?

Yes i think it is 1024 but it been so long thinking about that it gone out of my head

[Penquin]

Yep, it's 1024. Windows displays it as 3361 KBs and as 3.28 MBs and 3361/1024 = 3.2822265625. So it looks like:

A) Uninstalling the patch replaces GM.DLS, which it would keep in the 'Backup' folder

or

B) For some reason, my GM.DLS stayed the same