Not able to re-install GPL

Hello, This is the most agonizing problem I've ever had! I had GPL installed on my brand new K6-III 450 PC when it developed a glitch. I impulsively decided to uninstall GPL and... wait for it... now I can't re-install! When I go through the setup process, I get to where Seup says, "This is not a valid CD." I feel very embarrassed now, also because this sounds like what you get when you try to install off a bad illegal CD. Is there anybody who can tell me how I can possibly fix this? My guess is that Setup thinks the CD doesn't fit the Windows version, maybe because of regional settings, but why would it have installed fine before? That was only last week! Any help is greatly appreciated and please, keep it legal. Thanks. Regards, Laurens de Jong, The Netherlands.

Hi! Look at the datasurface of the cd. Does it appear to be scratched? Then you might get it repaired with a cd-polish-set, available at good cd-stores. Give it a try, this solved my problem very well. Bye! Crash

The problem arises when the CD-ROM player can't read the CD properly. I had to get a new player which managed to read those "bigger" CD's, but for you I assume you still have the same player so you have to do some research.... :-) Hans Laurens de Jong wrote in message <[email hidden]>... >Hello, > >This is the most agonizing problem I've ever had! I had GPL installed onmy >brand new K6-III 450 PC when it developed a glitch. I impulsively decided >to uninstall GPL and... wait for it... now I can't re-install! > >When I go through the setup process, I get to where Seup says, "This is not >a valid CD." I feel very embarrassed now, also because this sounds likewhat

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>you get when you try to install off a bad illegal CD. > >Is there anybody who can tell me how I can possibly fix this? My guess is >that Setup thinks the CD doesn't fit the Windows version, maybe because of >regional settings, but why would it have installed fine before? That was >only last week! > >Any help is greatly appreciated and please, keep it legal. Thanks. > >Regards, > >Laurens de Jong, The Netherlands. > > >

Do you have two CD-ROMs? This problems happens on my machine, I guess because GPL is looking in my my CD-Writer which appears in Explorer earlier than my CD-ROM. If I put GPL in the other CD-ROM it works. -- Mart Hugh Rogers

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> > Hello, > > This is the most agonizing problem I've ever had! I had GPL installed on my > brand new K6-III 450 PC when it developed a glitch. I impulsively decided > to uninstall GPL and... wait for it... now I can't re-install! > > When I go through the setup process, I get to where Seup says, "This is not > a valid CD." I feel very embarrassed now, also because this sounds like what > you get when you try to install off a bad illegal CD. > > Is there anybody who can tell me how I can possibly fix this? My guess is > that Setup thinks the CD doesn't fit the Windows version, maybe because of > regional settings, but why would it have installed fine before? That was > only last week!

I just had the same problem myself, here's a workaround I got from a friend 1. copy everything on the CD to the directory you want, excpet the "surface" folder or something, it's around 500 MB, so you'll know wich one it is :-) 2. create a "players" folder and an "exports" folder 3. make sure everything is not write protected And, it's not a faulty CD, mine has been in the cover when not in use, and it looks like new, not a scratch, weird............ You may experience some lockups until you've created a default setup for each track, but as soon as you have that, you should be ok, hope this helps....... -- Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "Team Mirage" http://www.teammirage.com/ "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/

Do you by any chance have more than 1 CD ROM in your machine? If so that could be the problem. When my old 6x gave up the ghost, I bought an HP CDRW to replace it (6x2x2 which was good at the time!) Then along came GPL, and the CDRW wouldn't read it. Don't know why, but to this day if I put the GPL CD in that drive, windows Blue-Screens. So I bought a Panasonic 32x CD-ROM as a reader, keeping the HP as a writer. This new drive reads the CD fine, but gives me the unofficial CD message (which is ***y annoying when you've paid for a game!) when I try to install. (But finds the CD perfectly OK to play the game!). I finally tracked it down to the way my drives are set up. For reliable CD writing the CD Writer should be the master on one of your IDE channels, and the reader the slave. The GPL install seems to ignore the drive letter of the CD-ROM it was installed from and just check the master CD-ROM. The simplest solution I have found for this is to: (1) Switch off my PC. (2) Unplug the CD-writer IDE ribbon from the back. (3) Reboot PC. It then thinks it only has the one CD. (4) Install GPL (it only has one CD-ROM to look at, so it works) (5) Switch PC off again. (6) Re-insert IDE ribbon. (7) Reboot. Windows seems to manage this without asking for any drivers, so apart from the obvious pain in the arse of fiddling around with your case and cables etc, it's relatively hassle free. The strange thing is that one of my housemates also has a CD-Writer and CD-ROM (different models, but set up the same way), and he doesn't have the problem, even when installing from the Slave drive. All a bit odd really. Anyway, if you've got more than 1 CD, give it a whirl. Hope that helps, Mike West

Thanks, Goy, it worked. -Laurens de Jong.

Mart Hugh Rogers wrote: > > Do you have two CD-ROMs? > This problems happens on my machine, I guess because GPL is looking in > my my CD-Writer which appears in Explorer earlier than my CD-ROM. If I > put GPL in the other CD-ROM it works. Good call, but didn't help, damn, thought you had it there for a sec :-) -- Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "Team Mirage" http://www.teammirage.com/ "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/