Needing Technical help Please

[Monica Lewinsky]

Originally Posted by pcAssasian

I'm a bit confused as to what drive You had the game saved to?? and if indeed You did whipe the game out of the said drive, then You would need to reInstall the game.

Originally Posted by pcAssasian

I'm a bit confused

You are not alone!!! I find his writing real hard to follow.

After reading it over-and-over again 3-4 times, here is my take on what he is trying to say:

Did a reinstall of the OS - XP.
(Did you get it up to Service Pack 2 BEFORE installing the game?)

Then it sounds like he zapped the game off the D: drive which is SLAVE drive. Not a bad idea ASSUMING the My Docs\sh4 folder got zapped off the C: drive. Dunno - he does not tell us that - which drive it was on.

Then he refers the E:\ drive is the DVD drive letter where he is trying to reinstall SH4 from. He doesn't tell us, but, sounds like he right clicked on drive E:\ and did a "Properties" and saw the byte count of the SHIV DVD? I ASSUME he tried to open it in a File View mode and did not see the autoplay.inf file or the setup.exe file[s].? The drive should have "auto played" and have given the intro screen to install. Sounds like one of two things:

1. DVD drive is acting up,

or

2. SHIV DVD might be "dirty" or defective. Stick it in another PC with a DVD drive and see what happens.

I also feel "fiddling" with the Registry file on a new, fresh, reinstall is/was a total time waste'r.

Focus on the DVD drive [try another DVD disc - what happens?] or stick that SHIV DVD in another machine - what happens?