Installation Problem

Hi guys.

Yesterday I bought myself a new laptop, the HP pavillion dv9700.
When trying to install Medieval II this morning, on the first disk the installation spent at least half an hour trying to install the file "packs\date_2.pack"

It then gave me the message:
Feature transfer error
Componant: packs
File: E:\main\packs\date_2.pack
Error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O
device error.

My laptop's specs are:
Model: HP pavilion dv9700 notebook pc
Processor: AMD tuironn 64x2 mobile technology TL - 60 2.00GHz
RAM: 3.00GB
System type: 32-bit operating system.
Graphics card: nVidia Geforce 7150M with shared memory.

I tried installing twice, with the same result. I restarted between each attempt as well...

The game worked fine on my old desktop which was supposedly not as powerful as this laptop. I know laptops aren't usually good with games but I would have thought it would at least install?

Any help appeciated...

Did you check your disc to make sure it isn't dirty or scratched? Can you still read it on your desktop?

Originally Posted by irishron

Did you check your disc to make sure it isn't dirty or scratched? Can you still read it on your desktop?

hahaha. What an ass I am. Thanks yeh I cleaned the disk and it's working smoothly now.

I take it IO errors are disk related then LoL, that explains that one.

Originally Posted by verena xeventus

I take it IO errors are disk related then LoL, that explains that one.

Just one of many possible IO errors.

what does IO stand for?

Data input/output.

Originally Posted by Antissa

Data input/output.

thank you