Hard Drive Problems

douchebagatrondouchebagatron Custom member title Join Date: 2003-12-20 Member: 24581Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
edited November 2004 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">help!</div> so i try to install knights of the old republic that i borrowed from a friend. every time i try to install some random file gives an error that it cant be loaded and either i can abort retry or ignore. retry never worked so i aborted the first few times. each time it was a different file that wouldnt install, and once i just continued through the messed up files but game wont work, obviously. so i figured it was scratched cds or something, i duno. that was a week ago, and ive stopping trying to install it. (btw during my frantic attempts to installl it i did do a defrag and restart several times.)

now i download the client for WoW. as i was downloading it several times it gave me the error that a file couldnt be written to the hard drive several times and my hard drive might be corrupt. it kept on downloading so i figured it fixed itself each time. when it got finished i tried to run the installer and it gave me this:
The installer cannot start up. The drive at C:\ may be out of space.


i have 39.5 gigs free.

i figured maybe my harddrive has an error on it so i attempted to run scandisk, which apparently doesnt exist on windows XP PRO.

so i downloaded a few scandisk-like programs, ran them, they came up with no errors. what else can i do? will a format fix this? is there an easier way?



edit: my specs
512ram
75 gb HD
2.09 GHZ proc
radeon 9800 pro 256mb
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  • BeowulfGrendelBeowulfGrendel Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13775Members, Constellation
    For a Windows scandisk, bring up a command prompt and type chkdsk

    Any errors in the event log relating to ATAPI, ATA or IDE?
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  • douchebagatrondouchebagatron Custom member title Join Date: 2003-12-20 Member: 24581Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    i just ran that chkdsk and came up with no errors.

    how do i view the event log?
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  • BeowulfGrendelBeowulfGrendel Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13775Members, Constellation
    Start --> run --> eventvwr.msc
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  • GWARGWAR Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2297Members, Contributor
    Its most likely a scratched cd, or a bad cd-rom. A third possibility is you could be having problems with the KOTOR copy protections, for some reason my dvd drive would install it but my burner would not.
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  • theclamtheclam Join Date: 2004-08-01 Member: 30290Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-GWAR+Nov 6 2004, 06:07 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (GWAR @ Nov 6 2004, 06:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Its most likely a scratched cd, or a bad cd-rom. A third possibility is you could be having problems with the KOTOR copy protections, for some reason my dvd drive would install it but my burner would not. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    That wouldn't stop WoW from working.

    Your hard drive is probably broken. I had the same problem. Just out of curiosity, what brand and model of drive is it?
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  • 0blique0blique Join Date: 2003-05-18 Member: 16477Members
    Try putting in another hard drive, if you can and installing on to that. If it screws up, than it probably doesn't have anything to do with your hard drive, but if it works, then there could be a problem with your drive.

    No matter what happens, though, I suggest you make backups of anything important while you can (just in case, you can never be too sure).
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  • douchebagatrondouchebagatron Custom member title Join Date: 2003-12-20 Member: 24581Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    in the event viewer i see application errors and application hangs, thats about it. nothing atapi ata or ide

    and so my choices are buy a new hard drive? if one of the hard disks gets messed up or something would a format fix it?
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