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I have just formated my harddisc, and deleted BG1 and BG2. now I'm trying to reinstall them! but during the BG2 installation, the computer askes you to insert the next disc... 1, 2, 3 and 4! The number of discs I have!!!! but then It askes me to insert disc 5..... but I don't have a disc 5! I have tryed with the ToB disc, but it aint that one! Anybody who know what disc my computer is talking about? Or is it just me who aint to bright right now???


PS. I forgot to save all my downloaded mods, so could those of you who know where they are, please post a link? (specially those nice bun bun, and the mods whith the extra NPC's)

Thanx's to all of you who can help or trys!

I haven't had it ask me for disk 5, but after you go through all 4, you do need to put disk 1 in again to finish off.

As far as a link, I suggest you just stick with the Weimer mods to ensure compatibiliby. Here is the link
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~weimer/bgate/

BTW: I just reinstalled last night to ensure I only used Weimer mods and now my system is running well again.

Originally posted by Nae'run
PS. I forgot to save all my downloaded mods, so could those of you who know where they are, please post a link? (specially those nice bun bun, and the mods whith the extra NPC's)

Mod links aren't posted at the top of this forum, under BG crossroads reference?

The Disk 5 thing is a known issue with the game. This is from Biowares Support page....

If you are having problems getting the game to install or the game is asking for a CD5, you may want to try some of the following suggestions.

When changing CDs during the installation, let the drive spin-up and then stop. Then click OK and see if the installer recognizes the disc change. Do this for all the CDs that are requested.
Try checking for a firmware/BIOS update for your CD or DVD drive. We have had several reports of sucessfull installs of the game once a firmware update was applied. You will have to check with your CD/DVD drive manufacturer for this kind of update.
If for whatever reason you are unable to do a Recommended or Full install, but you can do a Minimum install, please read How to "fake" a larger install from a Minimum.
If you have multiple CD/DVD drives, only install from one and do not try to use all of your drives. For some reason, this is confusing InstallShield.

Hope this helps
If you cannot do any install without getting some sort of error or crash and you have about 5 Gig of free hard drive space, you can try to copy all 4 CDs to your hard drive, then run the install from there. Please note, you must copy all 4 CDs to the same directory for the install to run. If you get prompted for the next CD, then you have not copied the files over properly, or you have missed some.
Try turning off DMA for your CD/DVD drive. For some people, this has allowed them to install. You can find this checkbox by going to your Control Panel, then to System, then to the Device Manager tab. Find your CD/DVD drive and bring up its Properties, then go to the Settings tab.
Try turning off your CD/DVD read-ahead. For some people, this has allowed them to install. You can find this slider by going to your Control Panel, then to System, then to the Performance tab. Down in the Advanced Settings frame, press the File System... button and move the slider all the way to the left. You may need to restart for this setting to take effect.
CRC errors while

I'd also wonder at Nae'run's use of the word "deleted" in his opening post. If the game files were simply deleted rather than actually uninstalled, a bunch of entries remain in the registry. These can cause problems when a fresh installation takes place.

I was assuming he meant the were deleted during the format. If he did format, install, then delete them, he may have a mess to clean up. I would think if there were registry entries, he would be getting a different kind of error, it happened to me, and it just seemed to the system that the game was already installed, so it wouldn't even let me try to install it until I cleaned the registry.

It all happened like this:
I had bought a new motherboard from a freind. I have had a lot of problems with win-mellenium, so I changed it to win 98, but there where a lot of files I would like to keep, so i put them all in folder, went to the old dos, and startet to delete almost every directory. Actually it was a friend of me who did it for me, and he is somethhing like a professor in computer sceince, so it was done the right way!!!
After deleting almost my entire harddisk I started to reinstall all my progz. But as I said..... I forgot to save my BG stuff!