Help regarding installing!

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WickedKitti:
Hello everyone, I'm new and desperate, lol.

I had Sims 2 the holiday edition installed on my computer. Not too long ago, I got the Pets expansion pack. It installed just fine, and ran just fine.
Well, a little message had popped up advising me to back up my files from Sims 2. I didn't. I didn't figure I'd ever mess with that one again.

So yesterday, I got the Seasons expansion pack, and it would get to 10% and give me the message, 'A problem occured when trying to transfer the file (whatever its name was) from the media. Do you want to retry to copy the file, or cancel the installation?'
I got aggravated, and thought that it was probably because I didn't back up the original Sims 2 files.

To make a long story even longer, I uninstalled Sims 2, and haven't been able to reinstall it, because it gives me the same message it did on the Seasons one.

I'm so sad right now! lol. I've tried everything I can think of. Another site said that if there was scratches on it it wouldn't do it, so I manually moved the files off the cds into folders, then tried the autorun. It gave me the error message at 0%.

So now I'm stumped, and oh-so-sad. lol.
Any new ideas? :(

robert1967:
try using a diffrent cd-rom drive, if you know someone with a usb drive you could barrow that could help.

WickedKitti:
Thanks Robert...
But, I finally got it to install. DirectX wasn't on my computer, so once it was, it went through okay, until I put the 4th CD in. It got to 77% and gave me the error message again.
So I cheated and copied the files from that CD onto my C: drive before I hit retry, and it finished.

Only now, in Pleasantview, the graphics are all messed up, and in Strangetown the ground has huge peaks in it for no reason. So I probably screwed something up further, lol.

So I guess my next question is: I don't care about the original Sims 2. I just want the Season expansion pack to work, lol.
Will the fact that Sims 2 is acting like that affect the expansion pack?

If it wont matter, I need to figure out how to back up the files so I don't have issues again with installing an expansion pack.

Thanks in advance! :)

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