Okay now i am lost (installing WoW)

#0 - March 30, 2008, 3:43 p.m.

Okay spent since Thursday around 19:00 untill now trying to install wow.

With 3 diffrenet pair of disc. On 6 Diffrenet harddisks i am getting quite confused here.
Even did download the clients from blizzards offical website.

I have gotten 12 diffrenet errors if not more.

Here is a few of them.

An error was detected while verifying the contents of the file "C:\Documents and Settings\Zyd\Mina dokument\WoW-2.3.0.7561-enGB\World of Warcraft\Data\common.MPQ". There may be a problem with your system, or with the drive at C:\. You can attempt to install again. If this problem persists, please contact Blizzard Technical Support.
Thats when trying to use your client that i did download from Blizzards website.

An error was detected while verifying the contents of the file "C:\Program\World of Warcraft\Data\expansion.MPQ". There may be a problem with your system, or with the drive at C:\. You can attempt to install again. If this problem persists, please contact Blizzard Technical Support.
Another one from your client.

One time i couldn't apply the patch so it did advise me to run repair tool and i did and this did pop up.
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3580/omfgdo1.jpg
and that is RIGHT after i did install wow and TBC

Blizzard Updater was unable to read the file "C:\Program\World of Warcraft\Data\enGB\locale-enGB.MPQ". This error may be caused by problems with the media or drive at C:\--for example, a scratched or dirty CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, hard drive corruption, or a networking problem while downloading the update. (The data being read was "Interface\WorldMap\ShadowmoonValley\ShadowmoonValley2.blp"
One of the patch errors.

And another install.
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/4536/omfg2ri6.jpg

And another problem.
Patch data is bad. (source CRC mismatch: 672210381/-680852538) (BNUpdate::PTCApply)

What the hell to do ? did reformat my computer thursday after that all the bugs have come up. But same 12 bugs over and over agian with 3 diffrenet set of wow/tbc and on 6 diffrenet harddisks.

Might add i am on a Intel 3Gz Processor with 1gb ram using Windows Xp Pro with Service Pack 2.
Trying my last option now wich is to get iso's down and sit and replace every singel file.
And yes my harddisks are NTFS system
I never have problems with this before so please blizzard.
Help ?

#24 - April 1, 2008, 2:49 p.m.

Zyd,

These forums are not a direct means of support, while we try to maintain a presence they are a place where players can assist each other. There is no guarantee that we can reply to all forum posts made.

The best way to contact us is either by telephone or e-mail.

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/support/technical.html

The installation problems you are having seem to be related with your hardware most likely the interference of background software or more likely a memory related problem.

The computer is trying to build the game files and write them to the hard disk but it is encountering errors.

Make sure that if you have re-installed your operating system that you have also made sure to update your hardware drivers especially for your motherboard.

I would also recommend that you perform a memory scan on your system using a program called HCI Memtest (http://hcidesign.com/memtest/). The program is small, is quite simple to use and is quite reliable for showing any possible memory problems.

Download the zip file to your computer and extract the program exe to your desktop. It does not need to be installed and simply runs when double-clicked. Press OK at the message prompt then click on the "Start Testing", another prompt will appear so click OK again.
For the purposes of this test make sure you close down all none essential programs, such as MSN, Windows Blinds etc.. and allow the program to complete 800-1000% coverage.