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Originally Posted by Berserker
The sim is on a disk and the external cd thingy is only 6 months old...I have tried the wipe down to no avail..I put it in a separate folder on d: E: drives.I am tired now..I have been trying for 5 days to make it work...Time to rest..
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External DVD/CD drive? Is that via USB? Do other apps install from their disks OK using the reader? Do you have a working internal drive you could try? The age of an optical drive has no bearing on its functionality. I had an internal drive start throwing errors after just a few weeks. They do fail. If you have the room on the hard drive, you could make a folder and copy the DVD-R contents into that, and try to run the Setup.exe file from the hard drive, if the copy completes. Otherwise, as Sniper297 says, the disk might have one scratch too many, or the dye is losing its luster. Either way, it is apparently not being read correctly.