Sims 2 won't install disk3 N001_Lot77.package corrupt Could someone please please help me? I have a real legitimate Sims 2 game that I bought well over a year ago. I had it installed on my computer before. I had to reformat my computer and now it will not install. It would freeze on disk 1, but I somehow got that to work. Now it stops at disk 3 at 77%. I have tried the "manual" way to install it but again, I cannot get disk 3 to copy to my computer to install it from my hard drive instead of the disks. It specifically stops at the N001_Lot77.package found under the User Data folder under the compressed folder on disk3. Keeps saying it's corrupt. I can't afford to buy another game. Could someone please please help me with this? I've had the game for well over a year so I can't return it to the store. There are no scratches or fingerprints or anything on the disk. Let me fix this before one of the moderators (or should I say Gods) complains. Could some nice person PM me that would be willing to help?
I did a search and this is what I came up with. Please note these are direct quotes from another source, I just hope they help. The installation freezes or you get an installation error. First thing to try obviously is to check the CD/DVD for scratches or marks and clean. Try renaming the InstallShield folder. Double-click on the My Computer icon. Double-Click on the C: Double-Click on Program Files then on Common Files. Right-Click on the InstallShield folder. Select Rename. Rename it to InstallShieldOld. Start the installation again to reinstall the InstallShield components with the newest version. If that doesn't work try a copying the files to your hard drive and installing from there. FOR CD: Go into My Computer. Open drive C. Right-click inside the window and select New, and then Folder. Name the folder as Disk Images (it is important that the name has a space in it). Open the disk images folder. Right-click inside the window and select New, and then Folder. Name this folder Disk1. Repeat steps 6 and 7 while substituting Disk1 for Disk2 and so on until there are 4 'Disk' folders followed by a number 1 through 4. it is important to note there must not be a space between "Disk" and the number. Insert Disk 1 of The Sims 2 into your CD-Rom drive and if the autoplay starts, cancel it. Go into My Computer. Right-click on your CD-ROM drive and choose Open. When you see the contents of the disk in the Window, click on Edit at the top of the window and choose Select All. All the contents of the disk should now be highlighted, click on Edit at the top of the window again and choose Copy. Open the Disk1 folder you created under C: Disk Images; click on Edit at the top of the window and choose Paste. This will copy the contents of the CD into the Disk1 folder. Repeat steps 9 through 14 for the remaining disks until you have copied each disk into its appropriate folder. Once all the disks have been copied, remove ALL CDs from any drives. Open the Disk1 folder under Disk Images and double-click on autorun.exe to start the installation. To save disk space, you can delete the Disk Images folders after the installation is complete. FOR DVD: Insert the DVD into the DVD-rom drive. Exit the startup menu when it comes up. Double click My Computer, then right click on the DVD-rom drive with the game DVD in it and select Explore. Hold the CTRL key and then hit A. That should select all the folders and files. Then hold CTRL and hit C. This will not look like it does much, but it's preparing to copy the files. Close that folder and go to your desktop. Right click anywhere BUT on an icon, and Select New, then Folder. Name the folder Sims2 DVD. Then double-click that folder, and hit CTRL and V. This will begin copying the files from the DVD. Once the files are copied, remove the disc from the drive. Double-click on the Setup icon in the folder. You may delete the Sims2 DVD folder once the installation is complete. You might find that when copying the "compressed", video, or sound folders it gives you errors. I then opened the "compressed" folder on the disk and copied the individual folders on my Desktop (you might have to copy file by file). Then go to your Desktop and compress the folders (2 or 3 depending[CSBin,TSData,TSBin]) and the change the name to "compressed" and move this folder from the Destop to the Disk1 folder (or Disk2, Disk3, etc). Make sure ALL the internal files (specially the TSData) have been copied or you might be able to start the game but not open lots or create people. I had to do this for all my expansion packs (a real 5+ hour pain!) but I was finally able to play all my Expansion Packs!!! Hope you are able to fix this annoying problem!!! Oh! And remember to erase all traces of you old files from previous installation attemps from your c://Programs Files>EA Games>The Sims2 folder.
