Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) Technical Problems Failed installation

Ok, I just reformatted my computer.

Fresh installation if XP pro SP2
My normal of no spyware, no antivirus that interferes... its a FRESH installation, with only antivirus, updated drivers, and SP2 installed. No other programs installed yet.

Installing it on 2 different optical drives. 1. Lite-On DVD Rewriter. 2. BTC CDRW/DVD Combo

Since i own 4 copies, i have tried 2 sets of disks (one never been opened) and on both it stops at 58%

Am i missing some trick maybe? Never did this before. My PC is the exact same spec as before: AMD Athlone 2600+ Barton, 1.5 Gig Ram, Geforce FX 5700, 1 Terrabyte HDD space (they not even striped yet, where they were before)

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Try copying the files off the CDs (do not need the autorun.inf file) into the same folder on the hard drive and installing from there. It doesn't sound like a problem with the CDs or drives, but that might make a difference.
Did you update the motherboard chipset drivers?

Everything is updated to the fullest... Copying it to the HDD didnt work <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

But making an image with ALcohol did... installation went through ok. And starforce is happy with the original cd....

I am at a loss, but got it working.

Ooooh....I wonder if Starforce has a nutty b/c you've got Alcohol installed. Beats me, but possible.

I know other copyright programs, such as SafeDisc3, just don't get along w/ Alcohol, CDClone, Roxio, and Nero -- to name a few programs.

Alcohol was not installed at the time of my attempts to install BD. I installed it afterwards, since i use it a lot with video editing, so tried it....

In my previous installation Alcohol was installed and i had no problems...

When my computer is running as it should be, i have 9 virtual drives!!!! and BD coped with that... starforce is also perfectly happy with my virtual drives... i just have to put in disc 2 like normal.

I am pleading insanity.... my computer i suppose was just misbehaving... or trying to disciplin me to play LESS games (as if that could ever work) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />