Half-Baked Posted February 10, 2001 Share Posted February 10, 2001 Please Help. I recently upgraded (finally) from W95 to W98SE and tried to reinstall CM. About 1/4 of the way through the installation, I get a message which asks me to insert Disk 2 (WTF!!) into my CD-Rom drive in order to install Combat mission.exe Of course, I don't have a second disk, so the installation has to abort. What is going on here? I noticed that the copying of files from my CD to the HD was painfully slow. When I look at Device Properties, I see that my Secondary IDE controller has an exclamation mark, yet, when I try to install new drivers, it tells me the device is already using the latest driver. Can anyone help? I am about to tear my hair out! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Madmatt Posted February 11, 2001 Share Posted February 11, 2001 Go into your Windows>Temp folder and delete all the files and folders you see. Then rereun the setup file. If that doesnt work then here are two other procedures that may work for you: Get some rubbing alcohol and dilute it with water (about a capful total) Dip a Q-tip into the solution and then gently rub the soaked Q-tip across the shiny surface of the CD. Be sure to work any area that show smudges or scratches. Let the CD airdry. Re-insert the CD and And try to re-install. If setup still halts part way through then you can perfrom a manual install of the game. To do that, please follow the direction below: Create a directory somewhere on your computer called "CMBO". Now open Windows Explorer and browse to the Combat Mission CD. Copy the Wav, BMP and Scenarios folders into your new CMBO folder. Be sure that you copy the folder AND files inside of them! Now copy the Combat Mission.exe file from the CD to your new CMBO folder. Now launch the game from your harddrive. When you double-click the Combat Mission.exe the first time I want you to then press and hold your SHIFT key. That will toggle the intro movie off. You will still need to have the CD in the drive to play (this is done for copy protection reasons) but all the files will be on your computer and it should be okay. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Half-Baked Posted February 11, 2001 Author Share Posted February 11, 2001 Thanks, Madmatt! Wiping out the windows\temp directory seems to have done the trick. Install went smoothly, and CM is up and running again! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJMello Posted February 11, 2001 Share Posted February 11, 2001 FWIW HB I always keep that folder empty. Clears up some space too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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