hardest tech problem ever, begging assistance
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2002 10:31 pm
This isnt a repost i decided to post this here cause i thought i would have more cahnce for help
Between today and yesterday I have spent 7 hours racking my brain and coming close to a heart attack trying to figure this god forsaken bug/whatever out. The problem is I can't install SoA (so course that means ToB too) because when it auto-runs it says "Play" instead of "Install", this indicates SoA is on my hardrive but every single file (except portraits and saves) are completely gone. If i leave something out btw just ask ill be happy to answer, im gonna try tell everything i can about situation adn what i have tried.
Ok:
I realize the problem is the computer for some reason thinks SoA is installed (reason for this im thinking is i tried to reinstall SoA cause of another issue and when asked for disc2 and i put it in it froze, so it was 45% done when i had to reboot cause frozen) and to think its installed i figure it has to have some hook somewhere in hard drive. So i went into control panel right after that reboot with 45% installed and lo and behold it was in add/remove list, so i clicked remove. Asked if i was sure i proceeded and everything seemed to go fine. Then i went to explorer and found that dispite the OK and successful messages from uninstall nothing was deleted. So i manually deleted just the baldurs2 file then searched for "baldurs" on whole hard drive and all that remained were 4 files in applog so i deleted those 4. I didnt know anything else to type to look for elusive files so only other hook i thought SoA had left was registry, so i went into regedit and deleted Bioware folder. Now, I cant think of anywhere for the life of me that any other BG2 file could be hiding, i deleted my windows/temp just in case and recent to and emptied recycle (not like it matters) so i dunno where else to look. Strange things are happening too. Like i said before when i auto run it says Play not Install even though no files i can find for BG2 on comp. Also, if i go to setup.exe from explorer and execute the installshield bar comes up and loads BUT when its done i get the strangest messge, it asked me to confirm deletion of all files (like when you add/remove a program that confirmation) and when i click ok shows a box REAL fast jumps straight to 100% then nothing, does this EVERY time i use setup.exe, so obviously that wont get it installed. Same message also comes up when i try to remove it frm add/remove list, asked if i wanna delete all components i say ok it does it then DOESNT remove from list, same thing also happens when i click install from add/remove (cause that just executes setup.exe i think). sigh, this is the most annoying thing ever. I cant think of anywhere else to look for lurking files and i cant think of anything else to do, im lost. Please if someone out there has any ideas lemme know, sorry for the long post but tried to think of everything i could pertinent, thanks for help ahead of time, this has always been my favorite board since June
Between today and yesterday I have spent 7 hours racking my brain and coming close to a heart attack trying to figure this god forsaken bug/whatever out. The problem is I can't install SoA (so course that means ToB too) because when it auto-runs it says "Play" instead of "Install", this indicates SoA is on my hardrive but every single file (except portraits and saves) are completely gone. If i leave something out btw just ask ill be happy to answer, im gonna try tell everything i can about situation adn what i have tried.
Ok:
I realize the problem is the computer for some reason thinks SoA is installed (reason for this im thinking is i tried to reinstall SoA cause of another issue and when asked for disc2 and i put it in it froze, so it was 45% done when i had to reboot cause frozen) and to think its installed i figure it has to have some hook somewhere in hard drive. So i went into control panel right after that reboot with 45% installed and lo and behold it was in add/remove list, so i clicked remove. Asked if i was sure i proceeded and everything seemed to go fine. Then i went to explorer and found that dispite the OK and successful messages from uninstall nothing was deleted. So i manually deleted just the baldurs2 file then searched for "baldurs" on whole hard drive and all that remained were 4 files in applog so i deleted those 4. I didnt know anything else to type to look for elusive files so only other hook i thought SoA had left was registry, so i went into regedit and deleted Bioware folder. Now, I cant think of anywhere for the life of me that any other BG2 file could be hiding, i deleted my windows/temp just in case and recent to and emptied recycle (not like it matters) so i dunno where else to look. Strange things are happening too. Like i said before when i auto run it says Play not Install even though no files i can find for BG2 on comp. Also, if i go to setup.exe from explorer and execute the installshield bar comes up and loads BUT when its done i get the strangest messge, it asked me to confirm deletion of all files (like when you add/remove a program that confirmation) and when i click ok shows a box REAL fast jumps straight to 100% then nothing, does this EVERY time i use setup.exe, so obviously that wont get it installed. Same message also comes up when i try to remove it frm add/remove list, asked if i wanna delete all components i say ok it does it then DOESNT remove from list, same thing also happens when i click install from add/remove (cause that just executes setup.exe i think). sigh, this is the most annoying thing ever. I cant think of anywhere else to look for lurking files and i cant think of anything else to do, im lost. Please if someone out there has any ideas lemme know, sorry for the long post but tried to think of everything i could pertinent, thanks for help ahead of time, this has always been my favorite board since June