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[Black Deatha]

Ok, so I fianaly gave up hope of finding a collectors edition of WoW for a resonable price, and bought the regular edition (with the Hord box) and so last night I go to install it, Put in instilation CD 1 and the instilation actualy crashes, so I than re-start instilation from the begining of disc 1, it after some times asks for disc 2, pop that in, installs for a while, crashes, same kind of stupid error from the first crash, I not annoued re-start AGAIN from disc 1, makes it to disc 2 and AGAIN crashes. At this point I am really pissed, I look on Blizzards site for support, to find they have a support page for the game crashing during instilation, they suggest I rip all content from the 4 CD's and install from my harddrive, but at this point I need to go to bed, so I decide to do it today. I get home from work and rip all 4 CD's and install of my HD, but as the fucker gets to the content of the second CD it crashes AGAIN. Blizzards site said if there fix doesnt work there's probably something wrong with the disc, so I call my freind who works at the EB I bought it from, and he tells me to bring it back and he'll exchange it.

I take it in, and he exchanges it no problem, get home open up and install all 4 discs no problem on my first attempt (the way it should have been from the begining) and I than set up my account and start up the game, as soon as it starts up and I have enterd my account name and PW, it says it has a update to download and gives me the option to restart the game, I do and it than idownloads and installs the patch, it gets like 95% complete when the patch installer gives me an error and reccomends that to fix it I re-install the GAME, FOR FUCK SAKES, So I put in the install CD AGAIN and it doent geive me an re-install option, only uninstall, so i do, that I start up the instilaton process again, get the the second disc, and GUESS WHAT, CRASHES.

WHAT THE FUCK?

God damnit, I didnt expect this shit form a Blizzard game!

Oh and BTW, with my first copy of the game I had the same errors with 2 different drives, both my CD ROM and DVD RW.

Here are the errors I get:

This one was from one of the attempts from my DVD RW:

" The installer was unable to read the file "E:\Installer Tome 2.mpq". This error may be caused by problems with the media or drive at E:\--for example, a scratched or dirty CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, hard drive corruption, or a networking problem while downloading the installer. (The data being read was "Repack-MPQ\Data#terrain.MPQ\World\Maps\Kalimdor\Kalimdor_39_49.adt", and the error code was 38.) If this problem persists, please contact Blizzard Technical Support. (MPQFile::Read)"

And this was the one from the patch fuck up:

"Blizzard BNUpdate v2.97 compiled on Oct 27 2004
Log created at 10:04 pm on 12/03/2004

This patch upgrades World of Warcraft from version 1.0.0.3980 to version 1.1.1.4062.

ERROR: unable to apply patch to file 'World\Maps\Azeroth\Azeroth_31_29.adt'

RESULT: Patch failed"

God I'm so pissed off right now.

~Black Deatha

 

[aoi tsuki]

Ok, so I fianaly gave up hope of finding a collectors edition of WoW

So... this isn't about a woman? Color me disappointed.

 

[Docpan]

Hey, I feel your pain but it's not a common problem.

EVERYTHING was smooth for me and everyone I know, in true Blizzard fashion. They polish everything to a T. =D

Maybe there's an issue with your CD drive.

 

[gblues]

Here are the errors I get:

This one was from one of the attempts from my DVD RW:

" The installer was unable to read the file "E:\Installer Tome 2.mpq". This error may be caused by problems with the media or drive at E:\--for example, a scratched or dirty CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, hard drive corruption, or a networking problem while downloading the installer. (The data being read was "Repack-MPQ\Data#terrain.MPQ\World\Maps\Kalimdor\Kalimdor_39_49.adt", and the error code was 38.) If this problem persists, please contact Blizzard Technical Support. (MPQFile::Read)"

And this was the one from the patch fuck up:

"Blizzard BNUpdate v2.97 compiled on Oct 27 2004
Log created at 10:04 pm on 12/03/2004

This patch upgrades World of Warcraft from version 1.0.0.3980 to version 1.1.1.4062.

ERROR: unable to apply patch to file 'World\Maps\Azeroth\Azeroth_31_29.adt'

RESULT: Patch failed"

God I'm so pissed off right now.

~Black Deatha

Here's a tip that's fixed a number of bizarre install problems (not specifically for WoW, but for Windows programs in general):

1. Open Control Panel.
2. Open the System panel and go to the Hardware tab.
3. Click on the Device Manager button.
4. Expand the DVD/CDROM Drives section.
5. Remove EVERYTHING from the DVD/CDROM Drives section (the section will disappear when you remove the last drive)
6. Reboot, let Windows re-detect the drives, then try installing again.

If that fails, reboot into Safe Mode and then copy the CD to your hard drive (delete the copy you already made, it's corrupt). Windows XP will let you access the CD in Safe Mode, so don't worry about that. After the data is finished copying, reboot back into normal mode to do the actual installation.

What causes it? Some stupid driver that gets installed between Windows and the CD-ROM drive. I suspect it's some copy protection driver that auto-installs when certain disks are put in the drive. The first method nukes the driver, but some of them are persistent and will re-install themselves after Windows redetects the drive. However, none of those drivers get loaded in Safe Mode which is why the 2nd method works.

Nathan

 

[Hawksley]

Nothing is Blizzard's fault.