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    Unable To Reinstall Gears Of War.

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by baldash, Jul 15, 2009.

  1. baldash

    baldash Notebook Enthusiast

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    Three times today i have tried to install G.O.W. Everything is o.k. until approx half way through decompressing files. At which point everything freezes and my only option is to shutdown/ restsrt. No errors are reported etc and the disc is unmarked. Any ideas?
     
    baldash, Jul 15, 2009
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Hard drive problem? Done a scandisk lately? How much free space do you have on your machine? What do you mean by "everything freezes"? The installer, or your whole machine to where you have to hard power it down? If the second case, it sounds like an overheating issue.
     
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  3. baldash

    baldash Notebook Enthusiast

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    hard drive is fine. 120 gig free. temps are good. only installer freezes everything else ok. just cant exit it.
     
    baldash, Jul 15, 2009
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    How long have you let it go (the 'frozen installer') before closing it? It may need up some time.
     
    lozanogo, Jul 15, 2009
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    30 mins. i know previously this was quite a quick process.
     
    baldash, Jul 16, 2009
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    From the sounds of it, some files are corrupt on your CD or whatever your game source is.
     
    TevashSzat, Jul 16, 2009
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    why don't you let it sit for 2 hours? it just might work. when i installed gow, it took me 2.5 hours to install......lol
     
    zijin_cheng, Jul 17, 2009
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