I recently formatted my hardrive, and I now cannot install many of my games that were previosuly on the computer (under the same OS). The installation gets part way through, and then says something along the lines of "This File does not match the file in the setup's .cab file The medium from which you are running the setup maybe corrupted.
This has happened with CD versions of Rome total war, Medieval Total War 2, Age of Empires 2, some random game I can't remember now and Morrowind 3.
It has also happened with Virtual CD versions (ie iso mounted with daemon) of Rome total war and age of empires 2 (perfectly legal as I own the CD versions)
Oddly enough i was able to instal medieval total war and age of empires 1
What is up with my computer: is it a software or hardware problem?
I run XP home on nVidia nforce 3 motherboard with amd 64plus and 1GB of RAM
2007-02-20 02:34:47 · 2 answers · asked by Bacteria Boy 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
I use a virtual drive for my iso's. If its my CD/DVD ROM drive, whats up and what do i need to do?
2007-02-20 03:27:16 · update #1
It's your cd/dvd-rom.. Did you rip the isos from that drive? If so that is why they are not loading.
Try disabling DMA on Your CD-ROM drive. This is how you do it. Go to the Start button, Settings, and Control Panel. Double-click the System icon and, in the System Properties dialog box, select the Device Manager. Click the plus sign next to the CD-Rom icon and then double-click the icon for your CD-Rom. Next, click the Settings tab and deselect the DMA check box in the Options panel.
If that doesnt work try disabling your antivirus program if you have one.. and close or kill any unnessesary tasks before running the installer. If that doesn't work, the easiest thing to do is go buy a $30 cdrom drive from best buy / circuit city. Replace your current drive, and try installing the games again. If it still doesn't work, just return the drive to best buy.
In the case that the new cdrom drive doesn't work... Try obtaining new drivers for your motherboard/chipset. There will usually be an update available from the manufacturers website.
2007-02-20 02:40:05 · answer #1 · answered by IGotIt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'd advise paying for a floppy force. the only listed under is $8 new plus delivery. i've got ordered from them 4 circumstances. Instsll new force snd make bootable disk and upload the format and fisk instructions to disk. Boot and FDISK the full force!!!!!!!!!!!! :) sturdy success
2016-11-24 20:05:08 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋