Installation help!! ! PLEASE !

[snypromaniac]

:cry: Here is what im getting!
I get this message after about 3 seconds of installing Disc 1:
An error was detected while verifying the contents of the file "C:\Program Files\Starcraft\World of Warcraft\Data\base.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.


Please Help Me ! ! !

thanx in advance to any1 who can help me!

*p.s. - my operating system info.
Microsoft Windows XP
Media Center Edition
Ver. 2002 Service Pack 2
Dell XPS
Intel (R)
Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20 GHz
3.19 GHz, 2.00 GB of RAM

My video card: nVIDIA GeFORCE 6800 w/ 256 MB of memory

DirectX Version: 9.0

Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi

[AaManiac]

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/downloads/wowclient-download.html

Download the game....
^_^ enjoy the wait though....

-Maniac

[Valas Azuviir]

If, you got the space, you could also just copy the content of disk, over to your HD, and see if you can sidestep this issue then. It's quite possible that your CD-ROM/DVD-ROM etc, whatever, drive is being finicky and simply doesn't like the WoW cd's, during a lengthy install process.

Not exactly uncommon, certain brands of cd's don't play well with certain brands of players.

Course, disk 1 could also just be damaged or dirty and in need of cleaning, or the drive is in need of cleaning.

Or you could indeed dl a client.

The choice is yours.

[snypromaniac]

I have done all that! Still no go!
On tech support with blizzard, they are moving me up to advance support!
Hopefully they can help me out! : (

[rgirty]

I had the same problem with one of my drives, i had to share another drive on the network and install from there.

[Kodonn]

:cry: Here is what im getting!
I get this message after about 3 seconds of installing Disc 1:
An error was detected while verifying the contents of the file "C:\Program Files\Starcraft\World of Warcraft\Data\base.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.


If the error message is being created while trying to read (or verify) the file on your hard drive, I would try scanning your drive and then defragging it before you try reinstalling. You could just have a bad sector on your drive that is causing the problem. I had a similar problem like that once before. It would copy a file to my drive but then couldn't read it back. After I did a defrag, the install was going to a completely different part of the drive and no more problems.

[snypromaniac]

support alrdy told me to do defrag and scandisk my C:\ hardrive!
I have emailed my reports on msconfig and my other computer info. to them!
I downloaded the game off the mirror location on there website! still getting same message!
They told me so far that this message is typical if the game is alrdy installed on the computer, so the basic support guy im talking to is confused! He tells me to wait on the phone so he can ask the people around him; he says he needs to "talk to the guy" who does advance support to help me out on my stituation if I'm at the same progress after doing everything else I have done so far!
My guess is, I have another game that may be conflicting with the installation of WoW~hopefully Im right or it is an easy fix!

[rpguy]

support alrdy told me to do defrag and scandisk my C:\ hardrive!
I have emailed my reports on msconfig and my other computer info. to them!
I downloaded the game off the mirror location on there website! still getting same message!
They told me so far that this message is typical if the game is alrdy installed on the computer, so the basic support guy im talking to is confused! He tells me to wait on the phone so he can ask the people around him; he says he needs to "talk to the guy" who does advance support to help me out on my stituation if I'm at the same progress after doing everything else I have done so far!
My guess is, I have another game that may be conflicting with the installation of WoW~hopefully Im right or it is an easy fix!


i have exactly the same problem and no its not a HD thing, its not a bad sector, i tried 2 diffrent HD and its not a disc problem becuase they work fine on my other computer, this is realy anoying can someone help?

[greggsforhire]

I just upgraded to Vista and got the same message while trying to install. What sucks is that I bought the game online and now the download isn't the full download, but the trial version of the game. I saved off the install files that I downloaded originally, but thats the source giving me the trouble.

-It's a clean install of vista and other apps install ok
-It fails at different points of the install
-I've tried to copy the install files to the hard drive with no luck

I'll probably end up just copying over the wow directory from my XP system, but I'd rather do a clean install.

[ChaosSaber]

If you're using Vista you must have full administrative access to install and play the game.

[DrScience]

right click the WoW installer icon on the CD, choose "run as administrator" and try again. if it fails to install in normal mode try booting to safe mode and trying it there. If that still fails, i would reccomend running a CHKDSK /R on your HDD.
(To run CHKDSK /R: Get your windows install CD, boot to it, in the CD menu hit 'R' to repair using the 'Recovery Console'. At the recovery console window type 'CHKDSK /R', hit enter. It will probably take over an hour to run, but if it find any problems with the HDD it will attempt to repair it. Afterwards boot back up and re-try the install using admin rights).

Also, snypyromaniac please don't end every line of your post with an exclaimation mark, its irritating.