Install Problems with the sims 2 nightlife.

[rozamond]

help!

i uninstalled the sims 2 and all expansion packs i had as i had to reformat my system.

i installed the sims 2 and it worked fine, no problems.

i also installed university, again with no problems.

so i then tried to install nightlife.
it was all going fine untill it got up to 35% and it came up with this error message:

'A problem occurred when trying to transfer file TSData\Res\Sound\SfxK2/package from the media. Do you want to retry to copy the the file, or cancel the installation?'


naturally, i pressed retry, several times and it still didnt work.

so i pressed cancel and tryed to do that thing where you copy the contents of the disk into a file on drive c called disk images.

& in the middle of copying, it came up with a message saying it couldnt copy :/


is this a common bug or something?

my disk is no where near scratched becuase i have only even installed it once before and soon after i did i got the next expansion pack and have been using that disk.

is there anything i can do??


thanx =]

x.

[darkdragonluver]

I'm not really technical but usually what I try to do when I get problems is clean the disc especially if there are no scratches.

[joeySimzee]

& in the middle of copying, it came up with a message saying it couldnt copy :/

Did it say it's corrupted or anything else?

[veruaffe]

you can try installing the expansion pack manually


Double-click My Computer.
Right-click on the Local Disk C and choose Open.
Right-click inside the window and select New, and then Folder.
Name the folder Disk Images it is important that the name has a space in it.
Double-Click the new Disk Images folder to open it.
Right-click inside the window and select New, and then Folder.
Name this folder Disk1.
Repeat steps 6 and 7 while substituting Disk1 for Disk2. It is important to note there must not be a space between "Disk" and the number.
Insert Disk 1 of The Sims 2 Nightlife into your CD-ROM drive and if the autoplay starts, cancel it.
Double-click My Computer to open it.
Right-click on your CD-ROM drive and choose Open.
When you see the contents of the disk in the Window, click on Edit at the top of the window and choose Select All.
All the contents of the disk should now be highlighted, click on Edit at the top of the window again and choose Copy.
Open the Disk1 folder you created under C:\Disk Images; click on Edit at the top of the window and choose Paste. This will copy the contents of the CD into the Disk1 folder.
Repeat steps 9 through 14 for Disk 2 until you have copied each disk into its appropriate folder.
Once the disks have been copied, remove ALL CDs from any drives.
Open the Disk1 folder under Disk Images and double-click on autorun.exe to start the installation.
To save disk space, you can delete the Disk Images folders after the installation has completed.

[rozamond]

i gave up on installing the sims two nightlife when i tried all that you guys had told me too
for example manually intalling and the like.
its still not working.
and i am trying to install it again some how.
i was thinkin i could copy the disk or something
hum
orr, i have read about how some people had to uninstall there 'virtual drives' whatever they are?


thanks for any help.

=]

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