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Technical issue with uninstall

Discussion in 'BG2: Shadows of Amn (Classic)' started by adyghost, Apr 6, 2006.

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    Remove all ads!
    I uninstalled the game and I want to reinstall it but it reads that some of the game is still installed, every time I try to run the setup it gives me the option to uninstall first, again and again. I'm guessing some files are still in the registry or something. What can I do about it? Also, every time I ran the game, it created a blank copy of the game's folder, which I can't ever delete, I have about 5 of them (that's why I unistalled in the first place).
     
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    That happened to me too. Just rename the old SOA folder to something like M or cookie and it'll work.
     
    lwelyk, Apr 6, 2006
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    I doesn't work! Here's what I get "Cannot read from the source file or disk", either if I want to delete or rename! And why does the game create blank copies of the folder that I can't delete?!?!?
     
    adyghost, Apr 6, 2006
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    Chimera, Apr 6, 2006
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    I already went through that web page, it actually got my installation working. I still can't delete the empty folder the previous installation created. There is nothing I can do about it, and the issue is not addressed at BioWare. They just say to manually delete the previous installation folder, which I can't do: "Cannot read from source file or disk"!
     
    adyghost, Apr 7, 2006
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    You need to remove the registry entry.
    Press Start (left bottom corner), and Run: enter regedit and you'll get a list of reg entries.
    You can find BGII under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SOFTWARE - Bioware Corp, delete that folder.
    You can also use Regcleaner.
    http://www.majorgeeks.com/download460.html
     
    Blast Skeleton, Apr 7, 2006
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    Try deleting the folder using command prompt.
     
    Chimera, Apr 7, 2006
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