Installing CD version TSL - CRC error

[Guest R2-X2]

Decided to reinstall TSL, and I'm getting a CRC error about 5 minutes in on CD 3, after which I can only exit the installer. Does anyone have any experience with that?

 

I found a lot of other posts via google, but maybe someone here knows it first hand?

[Xuul 224]

For the 4 disk Kotor 2 try this:

If you have a blank USB copy all of the files for Kotor onto the USB and install from the thumb drive. For some people this can solve a multitude of errors while installing. I am not sure if it will fix your error in specific, but since it uses a different drive it might.

[Guest R2-X2]

I will try that, thanks.

 

Edit: Didn't work, that gives me the a CRC error aswell. Seems like the CD is damaged... it has some minor scratches, but I've never seen a CD not work anymore from such little damage. I have 15 year old CDs that passed many hands and are in a terrible condition, and yet they still work like a charm. :/

[Malkior 476]

I will try that, thanks.

 

Edit: Didn't work, that gives me the a CRC error aswell. Seems like the CD is damaged... it has some minor scratches, but I've never seen a CD not work anymore from such little damage. I have 15 year old CDs that passed many hands and are in a terrible condition, and yet they still work like a charm. :/

This may sound odd, but try wiping the crashing disk off with a dry cloth.

 

I got that error a few times due to having wax on it (don't ask). After scraping it off, and wiping it down, it worked again. Is it saying verbatim "cyclic redundancy error"?

[Guest R2-X2]

Trust me, I've cleaned it.

 

And I don't know what the exact English error message would be, could only give a German screenshot.

[Sith Holocron 2,478]

Even if it's in German, please post a screenshot of the error message.

[Guest R2-X2]

 

There you go. Seems like unfixable CD damage, though. Installed the game using a friend's CD now.

[Sith Holocron 2,478]

Let us know if that does or does not fix the issue, please.

[Guest R2-X2]

I now know that the installing error definitely came from the CD. Being clean and only having 2 minor scratches, something must still have been broken. Reading the CD in ISOBuster showed a terrifying lot of bad sectors, making about 3% unreadable.

[Hassat Hunter 571]

CRC errors indicate file errors yeah (the content being different than the expected result), if on disk that would be corruption/damage.