please help

[Paula]

I have the original cd of the sims and unleashed...they were installed on my computer and was accidently uninstalled and now i can't install the original sims back on my computer...when i try i get an error saying that there'san error moving data...can anyone out there please help me...i talked to tech support but they didn't help....


warmest regard

paula

[Rayder]

Sounds like your CDROM drive is just being gay about it. See if you can copy the whole CD to a temporary folder on your harddrive and try installing it from there. Sometimes that works. You can delete that temp folder after it installs.

If you have more than one CDROM drive in your system, try the other one.

I had that happen to me, with a few games, and it turned out to be the CDROM drive just sort of...well....sucked, it was a generic 50X'er. I swapped out that drive to a name-brand unit and haven't had a problem since.

Hope that helps ya!

[RincewindTheWiz]

Another thing that can fix a bad cd, is reading it at the lowest speed possible. The lower the speed, the more chance it gets corrected, although this is really hit and miss. Yesterday I saved one of my originals of Baldur's Gate II, by reading at 4x speed, the lowest my writer supported. I used CloneCD for this, you can edit the "Game CD" profile and set the speed lower there. Once you have an image on your hard disk, you can use CD Mage to make sure it's correct and then make a new working cd. Copying to the hard disk probably won't work unless you try another drive, since manually copying of the files to the hard disk always happens at the highest speed.