[RESOLVED] Daemon Tools Hanging Making Other Programs Hang

[uberpubert69]

I was trying to get my SSF emulator to work properly testing out different region Saturn games to see if they'd play. I could get an english game and a japanese game to play but when I tried Hyper Duel the game wouldn't boot and now GameEx, and Daemon Tools refuse to run now. Actually GameEx will run, half an hour after I hit the icon to start it up. and then it just hangs and sits there. I can't mount or dismount any games anymore either because of Daemon Tools screwing me over. I have no idea what I did to make this happen.and its kinda pissin me off. :/ And yes I've restarted my PC.

[nullPointer]

Hi uberpuber69

Is there anything in your log that might indicate the nature of the problem? If not there, perhaps the Windows Event Viewer might provide some insight. If nothing else you could attempt to reinstall DaemonTools and/or GameEx.

[uberpubert69]

Hi uberpuber69

Is there anything in your log that might indicate the nature of the problem? If not there, perhaps the Windows Event Viewer might provide some insight. If nothing else you could attempt to reinstall DaemonTools and/or GameEx.

There's nothing in the log. It shows everything ran properly, but it didn't. The event viewer keeps talking about snap ins not loading and it does nothing useful for me.

[uberpubert69]

I need help with this still. My computer is going ape s**t. :'(

[Draco1962]

Without knowing the exact details from Event Viewer as to the precise error message for Snap-Ins not loading and/or other erros, all you are going to get is a vague guessing game at best. I work in IT for a living and you aren't giving us much to work with here. The only advice I can give at this point is to start backing your stuff up as you may have to reinstall your OS.

Just a tip from an IT dude: "Google" the error messages, It is what 99% of us do in this profession.

[Adultery]

That number is probably much higher. Lol!

[hansolo77]

99.99%

Sounds like Daemon Tools might be messed up. Have you tried to launch it outside of GameEx? Maybe it didn't dismount the last game and can't mount a 2nd one? Another thing, I wonder if maybe Daemon Tools got corrupted? Did you try uninstalling/reinstalling it?

[uberpubert69]

I appreciate all of you being patient with me, I've learned to google all my issues since google first came to be. I'm not getting anything specific either. The problem I'm having is, after trying to mount an image, and loading it up with SSF through GameEx it all stopped responding and froze and after I restarted it still wont open. I am currently uninstalling Daemon Tools but it appears to be frozen at the spot where it gets rid of the virtual drives. My uncle works in IT too, I'm gonna see if he can help at all.

Oh look, it just stopped freezing and uninstalled Daemon Tools. DT has to be the problem because I can't load up any version of SSF I have. GameEx runs with Daemon Tools too so I'm assuming that is whats causing all my misfortune. Still don't even know what I did wrong to have this happen to begin with. Maybe mounting and dismounting too much???

Anyways, going to reinstall now and see if that fixes everything. OH HEY, GameEx loads up fine now since DT was uninstalled. Was probably trying to read the last ISO DT mounted and was hanging.

[uberpubert69]

Just reinstalled DT and the hanging/not starting up is happening again. wtf am I supposed to do if I can't mount any ISOs with DT anymore? I don't want to use Power ISO or whatever that DT alternative is.

[Adultery]

The problem is that I use dt a lot and I can't duplicate this. It's a lot harder to fix an issue if you can't reproduce it.

[uberpubert69]

The problem is that I use dt a lot and I can't duplicate this. It's a lot harder to fix an issue if you can't reproduce it.

I understand. Like I said, I don't even know what I did. I haven't done anything different or changed any settings in DT. Uninstalling fixes my issues, but then I cant mount anything. When I reinstall it, the problem comes back. So it is DT causing it all. Just don't know how to reverse the problem if uninstalling and reinstalling it didn't change anything.

[Draco1962]

Can you see the error messages in Event Viewer at the time DT seems to freeze and doesn't unmount the image and provide them for us to take a look? Also, It might be worth letting the DT folks know as they may have an idea what is happening.

[uberpubert69]

Can you see the error messages in Event Viewer at the time DT seems to freeze and doesn't unmount the image and provide them for us to take a look? Also, It might be worth letting the DT folks know as they may have an idea what is happening.

I'm not sure what I did, but I reinstalled Daemon Tools yesterday and it hasn't crashed or screwed me over in any way since. Maybe it's because I used my AIO PC cleaner and it cleared my registry of the old installation. So I highly suggest you uninstall DT AND clean your registry then reinstall. to fix the problem.

[nullPointer]

Another great tool for this purpose is Revo Uninstaller. Upon uninstalling a program it will scan the registry for likely looking keys associated with the program. It will also scan some other common areas for artifacts, such as the AppData folder and whatnot. It's one of a small handful of utilities that goes on every single Windows machine I own.