M2TW gold not installing

**Emperor Charlemagne XII** · December 21, 2009, 04:13 PM

Okay i have vista ultimate and i uninstalled my m2tw gold+ kingdoms after i unpacked it and when i try to reinstall it it goes to the intalling screen for a minute and then says:

Medieval 2 total war gold has failed to install medieval 2 total war

i uninstalled it deleted the sega folder and i am sure there is nothing left

**irishron** · December 21, 2009, 04:18 PM

After you uninstalled KIngdoms (I assume first) and Medieval2, deleted the Sega folder in program files, did you delete the hidden folder in users/(username)/appdata/roaming?

After all this, did you run a registry cleaner?

If not you will still get errors.

**Emperor Charlemagne XII** · December 21, 2009, 04:21 PM

how do you run a registry clean

**irishron** · December 21, 2009, 05:00 PM

Download Eusing Free Registry Cleaner from www.eusing.com, install, run it, and repair whatever it finds.

**Emperor Charlemagne XII** · December 22, 2009, 02:22 PM

is there a tutorial because after it shows the problems what do you do

**irishron** · December 22, 2009, 03:05 PM

The problems it shows, there is a button that says Repair, Delete or something on that order. Just click it and watch the fun begin. I've been using it since Win95.

**Emperor Charlemagne XII** · December 22, 2009, 06:36 PM

okay i deleted everyting i start to install but when it is in the middle it a screen pops up sayig

Feature: English
Component: english game
File: E:M2TW/Disk1/data 2.cab
Error Data error(cylic reduddancy check)

I figured it meant the disk was dirty but when i cleaned many time with toothpaste it still says that

**irishron** · December 22, 2009, 06:59 PM

Time to go buy a new disc.

**Emperor Charlemagne XII** · December 22, 2009, 07:12 PM

WHAT

!!

!!!!!!!!

Nooo this cant happen is there any way

Help me Obi-wan Kenobi your my only hope

**irishron** · December 22, 2009, 08:03 PM

If the disc is too dirty or scratched to be read by the dvd-rom, you have to buy a new one.

**Emperor Charlemagne XII** · December 22, 2009, 08:54 PM

how dirty is "dirty"

**irishron** · December 22, 2009, 09:37 PM

Dirty as dirt, dust, fingerprints, dog hair, candy, soda pop, pizza, ?.

**Emperor Charlemagne XII** · December 23, 2009, 03:36 PM

But it isnt dirty it is just small scrapes all over it is not cracked or dirty except for that

**irishron** · December 23, 2009, 04:13 PM

If the surface is not smooth the laser cannot read what is under it. Scrathes are not a smooth surface. Optical drives are more sensetive than the old floppies ever were.

**Emperor Charlemagne XII** · December 23, 2009, 04:17 PM

is there any way to fix it doc

**irishron** · December 23, 2009, 04:54 PM

There are dvd fixit kits out there to buy. Personally, I wouldn't. I don't trust them. Besides that, they probably cost as much as the game does now.

**Emperor Charlemagne XII** · December 23, 2009, 05:30 PM

MY SCRATCHES CAN ONLY BE SEEN IN LIGHT THEY ARE NOT VISIBLE WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT

**irishron** · December 23, 2009, 05:55 PM

It's not how deep or wide, it's how many and where at. If you have a buch in one spot close together it can throw off the laser light enough to keep you from reading it.

**Shigeru** · December 25, 2009, 03:59 PM

I had this same problem just now on my new laptop (Vista Home Premium 64 bit). No scratches on my disc either, I take care of them and used this one up until maybe a month ago. I'm still working on the install but I passee the error you just received after I disabled the UAC, rebooted and tried again. If you have not done so, give that a try. If you don't know how to disable UAC, google it...that's what I did and so far so good.