Well, I'm stumped. I have no idea what is causing this to happen. And disc 2 can't by read by any means ? Not in another pc ? Sheesh this is weird. OK, the only thing you can still try is using a crack and copying the files on cd 2 manually to the hard disk, then making a compilation cd with Nero. As long as you can copy the files to the hard disk, this should work too. But I don't know whether there's a crack available already. I'm going to get some sleep let's see if your little problem looks a little less enigmatic tomorrow