Troubleshooting Install Problems with the sims 2 nightlife.

Install Problems with the sims 2 nightlife.

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 =]

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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.

 

Did it say it's corrupted or anything else?

 

you can try installing the expansion pack manually

1. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Double-click My Computer.[/FONT]
2. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Right-click on the Local Disk C and choose Open.[/FONT]
3. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Right-click inside the window and select New, and then Folder.[/FONT]
4. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Name the folder Disk Images it is important that the name has a space in it.[/FONT]
5. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Double-Click the new Disk Images folder to open it.[/FONT]
6. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Right-click inside the window and select New, and then Folder.[/FONT]
7. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Name this folder Disk1.[/FONT]
8. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]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.[/FONT]
9. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Insert Disk 1 of The Sims 2 Nightlife into your CD-ROM drive and if the autoplay starts, cancel it.[/FONT]
10. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Double-click My Computer to open it.[/FONT]
11. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Right-click on your CD-ROM drive and choose Open.[/FONT]
12. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]When you see the contents of the disk in the Window, click on Edit at the top of the window and choose Select All.[/FONT]
13. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]All the contents of the disk should now be highlighted, click on Edit at the top of the window again and choose Copy.[/FONT]
14. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]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.[/FONT]
15. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Repeat steps 9 through 14 for Disk 2 until you have copied each disk into its appropriate folder.[/FONT]
16. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Once the disks have been copied, remove ALL CDs from any drives.[/FONT]
17. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Open the Disk1 folder under Disk Images and double-click on autorun.exe to start the installation.[/FONT]
18. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]To save disk space, you can delete the Disk Images folders after the installation has completed.[/FONT]

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still

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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