GTA SA on winVista

[Chickadee]

Upon loading error message at startup reads

 

Please remove disc from current CD/DVD drive and insert original disc in another drive ?:.

 

Now I've read on here about people using say Alcohol %120 and getting this but my copy is a totally legit, V1.0 copy that worked fine back when I had XP. I tried the create a shortcut and run on XP service pack 2 mode but the same error message pops.

 

Whatchu think?

[gtamodder]

Try 98 or Windows 2000 Compatibilty, rather then XP, See if it works.

[Chickadee]

negative on both accounts

[Girish]

Have you patched your original exe or something? Also, do you have any other virtual drives running?

[Chickadee]

neither, freshly loaded and un patched etc

[Girish]

I doubt if this will help, but try running the game as Administrator. Right-click on gta_sa.exe > Run as > Select Administrator.

[Chickadee]

negative

[Girish]

Try this:

 

1) Uninstall SA.

2) Delete the installation folder if it still exists. (e.g. C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas).

3) Delete the Virtual Store copy of the installation folder too. (e.g. C:\Users\???\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas).

4) Delete the gta_sa.set file from your User Files folder.

5) Reboot.

6) Reinstall SA.

[gtamodder]

This may not solve the problem, but does fix some problems with SA in vista. Disable the User Account control in Control Panel > Users. Then reboot.