Old PC game, new Laptop!

[howardrocket]

Hi guys, I have just purchased my favourite manager game of all time (LMA Manager 2005) for the PC. However I have a relatively new Laptop in which I am wanting to play the game on. Minimum requirements for the game are Windows 98SE/2000/XP, but I have Windows 7. Does anyone know if this will cause a conflict and stop me from playing my beloved game.

The game I have bought is brand new and I have opened it and put the disc in the Laptop, but my disc drive won't recognise or pick up the disc.... it is as if nothing is there, now I don't know if this is something wrong with my disc drive or just because of how old the game is.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Will.

 

[taida]

You can run it in compatibility mode [Right click > Properties > Compatibility], just set that to Windows XP when it installs

It should be able to pick up your disk though. Try checking the D-Drive, if that doesn't work then just eject and try it again.

 

[howardrocket]

Yeh I think it is to do with my Disc Drive, it isn't picking up new games I put in, any idea what might be up with it? I haven't mistreated the laptop and rarely use the disc drive as it is?

 

[taida]

Not sure :/ Not heard of anything like it tbh.

 

[Jak]

How new is the laptop? Can the disc drive read other discs fine?