battlefield 1942 issue

[lolik4]

hi, i know i might get closed but it's not exactly technical support thread. it's crack related.
i have working cracked no cd 1.1 battlefield version.
now i decided it's time to upgrade to 1.2 and what happens i downloaded official retail US patch which is like 22.8Mb and the patch does not recognize that game is installed. says "setup could'nt find game installation" while the game is installed in the right dir. so you see, i can't even apply the 1.2 crack since i can't even apply 1.2 patch. i think that problem can be related to my cracked 1.1 exe that patch doesn't recognize.
any ideas? maybe someone had similar problem and fixed it.