help with shogun total war crack

[mrcow]

hello everyone, i an having trouble with the shogun total war no cd crack. i burned the cd, the drive sees it, installs the game, the read me and manual are perfect. but it wont run the game. i downloaded a few no-cd cracks , but it still wont play. Has anyone maded a backup of shogun total war that works, is it me or are the patchs bad? So what do you think? what am i doing wrong? THANKS