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Nov 26^th, 2011 at 4:04pm

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i just wiped my pc and I tried to reinstall fs9 and at 25% it came up with discoveryvideo.exe is in use or your hard drive is full

any ideas?????? Huh

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Reply #1 - Nov 27^th, 2011 at 9:12am

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You say you wiped you PC... meaning? Formatted or simply uninstalled FS?

Can't find out what discoveryvideo.exe is... but unless you have a program whose executive has that name, it's almost sure sign of having an unwanted guest onboard (read: virus). Are you certain of your system's health?

It MAY be that one of the installing disks is damaged and the error is driving insane the system itself. Try and install FS on another PC and see is the error (the same or another) represents itself.

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Reply #2 - Nov 28^th, 2011 at 3:09pm

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Strategic Retreat wrote on Nov 27^th, 2011 at 9:12am:

You say you wiped you PC... meaning? Formatted or simply uninstalled FS?

Can't find out what discoveryvideo.exe is... but unless you have a program whose executive has that name, it's almost sure sign of having an unwanted guest onboard (read: virus). Are you certain of your system's health?

It MAY be that one of the installing disks is damaged and the error is driving insane the system itself. Try and install FS on another PC and see is the error (the same or another) represents itself.

fully wiped no files left on it. the discovery video i believe is one of those videos in the learning centre

it does it on all pc's

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Reply #3 - Nov 28^th, 2011 at 6:39pm

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palperfect wrote on Nov 28^th, 2011 at 3:09pm:

it does it on all pc's

If the installation gives consistent results on all PC's tried on, said results being an error, then CONGRATULATIONS: you have a defective CD. Undecided

How to resolve?

1) Home made solution: see if it's a visible scratch and use some toothpaste on it... sometimes it works, they say (never worked on mine).

2) Try using some disk copy program with functions of recovery to make a burned copy of the defective disk (only the disk 4 is needed original... and even that you can do without, with the FS9 crack).

3) Buy another FS9 package.

The choice is up to you. Tongue

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Reply #4 - Nov 29^th, 2011 at 10:18am

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Never heard the toothpaste solution, but one that I know of that can often work, provided the scratches are light, is body oil. Sounds stupid, but stay with me... Take your finger and swab your nose, forehead, behind your ears etc. Then rub that finger on any visible scratches you find on the disk. Next, VERY LIGHTLY AND CAREFULLY, clean as many of the smudges you can from the visibly good parts of the disk.(The idea being to leave the oil in the scratches, and not on the good parts of the disk.) Then try the install again.

Again, sounds stupid, but when I've tried it, I've had a 50-50 success rate.

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Reply #5 - Nov 29^th, 2011 at 10:28am

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Groundbound1 wrote on Nov 29^th, 2011 at 10:18am:

Never heard the toothpaste solution, but one that I know of that can often work, provided the scratches are light, is body oil. Sounds stupid, but stay with me... Take your finger and swab your nose, forehead, behind your ears etc. Then rub that finger on any visible scratches you find on the disk. Next, VERY LIGHTLY AND CAREFULLY, clean as many of the smudges you can from the visibly good parts of the disk.(The idea being to leave the oil in the scratches, and not on the good parts of the disk.) Then try the install again.

Again, sounds stupid, but when I've tried it, I've had a 50-50 success rate.

I do the old nose, forehead, and behind the ears trick before going out to the party, but I've never tried bottling it, to apply to scratched CD Disks before...

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