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    please insert the correct CD-ROM...




    could someone please explain me wtf is happening and why i always get this message - 'please insert the correct CD-ROM...' i tried reinstalling (it concerns RTW as well as M2TW) but its still the same thing for both games. seems like it doesnt recognise teh right disk.
    any thoughts?
    the HD was reformated i also got all drivers etc installed prior to installing RTW.
    can it be a hard ware issue?

    my PC is AMD Athlon (tm)XP 2500+, 1.8GHs
    512 RAM
    Nvidia GeForce FX5200

    thanks in advance

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    Default Re: ''please insert the correct CD-ROM...''

    Do any discs work in your ROM?

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    Quote Originally Posted by OTZ View Post
    Do any discs work in your ROM?
    yep

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    Default Re: ''please insert the correct CD-ROM...''

    Hmm...interesting. Are both games in CD format, or DVD? Do other games work? Do you have all of the XP updates?

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    Quote Originally Posted by OTZ View Post
    Hmm...interesting. Are both games in CD format, or DVD? Do other games work? Do you have all of the XP updates?
    games are in origional CD-ROM packs. i dont play anything else apart from TW, so not sure... ii'l try to go trough updating XP again.
    can it be some problems with registries? i dont understand much about it, but when i tried to run Reg Cleaner to clean some entries (from previous install that didnt work to be able to reinstall from scratch) it didnt work. said that progamm encountrered problems and need to terminate. wtf?
    and of course im sure it was CD1 on my laptop (which is not working atm) i done reinstallation hundreds of times. never had any problems

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    Default Re: ''please insert the correct CD-ROM...''

    Are you sure you are inserting "Disk 1" in the drive?

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    Default Re: ''please insert the correct CD-ROM...''

    Did you reformat a single partition drive or multi. ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sdjenkyn View Post
    Did you reformat a single partition drive or multi. ?
    done multy partition first but then reformated it as a single.
    Are the games scratched?
    nope

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    ok , you say you have run ccleaner since the install? I have managed to screw up my system using it before , some of the advanced features are a little indiscriminate. Have you tried going to your desktop exe icon for the game , right click the icon go to properties and go to "find target" and see if it goes to the right directory.

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    Default Re: ''please insert the correct CD-ROM...''

    Quote Originally Posted by sdjenkyn View Post
    ok , you say you have run ccleaner since the install? I have managed to screw up my system using it before , some of the advanced features are a little indiscriminate. Have you tried going to your desktop exe icon for the game , right click the icon go to properties and go to "find target" and see if it goes to the right directory.
    good idea will reinstall and try that. thanks.
    i did run CCcleaner.
    Have you lately changed number of drives? hard drive + or - logical drives, etc. and do you have any virtual cd/dvd drives running?
    not sure about virtual drivers since im a bit of a dumb ass when it comes to PC's guts. but yeah, i tried to change the drivers after unsuccessfully trying to play RTW. i tried to get my laptop's HD connected through an adaptor to the PC but it wouldn't reboot laptop's HD so i didnt succeed

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    Default Re: ''please insert the correct CD-ROM...''

    Are the games scratched?

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    Default Re: ''please insert the correct CD-ROM...''

    Have you lately changed number of drives? hard drive + or - logical drives, etc. and do you have any virtual cd/dvd drives running?
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