Installation problems?

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I recently formatted my hardrive, and I now cannot install many of my games that were previously on the computer (under the same OS). The installation gets part way through, and then says something along the lines of "This File does not match the file in the setup's .cab file The medium from which you are running the setup maybe corrupted."

This has happened with CD versions of Rome total war, Medieval Total War 2, Age of Empires 2, some random game I can't remember now and Morrowind 3.

Oddly enough i was able to install medieval total war and age of empires 1

I run XP home on nVidia nforce 3 motherboard with amd 64plus and 1GB of RAM 

Someone told me its a problem with my drive. If so, what is it and more importantly, how do I fix it?

tee_rone2008 · Accepted Answer

Go To Java.com and let them run an ActiveX control to see if you have an up-to-date version of Java.Then go to Adobe flashplyer.com,click on the support tab at the top,and they will guide you to the "Flashplayer unistaller"after you unistall go back to the main page and re-install the flashplayer.

Marv · Answer

it could be becasue of several reasons but most common is that your old OS probably had differnet drivers for everything. try installing an up to date graphics driver and software as well as the latest direct X. and any other drivers which you may think might have influanced the previous windows installation.

also if you had service pack 2 in the old one, then this might be a difference as well.

Bjorn · Answer

I would venture a guess that you accidentally installed the operating system on the wrong drive.

Tell me, do you have a windows directory on any other drive than your C:/ drive?

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