World of Warcraft Installation

[Alex Augustine]

The WoW installer keeps failing on me. Sometimes after 1 disc or 2 or whatever. So I keep starting over from the beginning. The WoW support site doesnt seem too helpful. Any Ideas? Thanks!

[mongycore]

you wouldn't be a subscriber of pcgamer would you...they had the dvd edition of WoW this year - you could install the game from there. I wonder if they have that cool ftp download option like City of Heroes.

[Brad Millette]

You may have faulty discs. I'd call Blizzard's tech support. I know that the DVD install for mine tends to blink out (crap DVD drive, though), so I have to resort to CD install if I need to reinstall the game (which happens far too often for my taste, but it's a small price to pay).

[Mosespeach]

The WoW installer keeps failing on me. Sometimes after 1 disc or 2 or whatever. So I keep starting over from the beginning. The WoW support site doesnt seem too helpful. Any Ideas? Thanks!


When you say that it "fails" do you get an error message, or does the install just hang? For instance, if you get a "CRC" error, then you most likely have bad discs.

Things I would try, that you may have already done:

1. Delete anything that the discs already installed on your computer.
2. Check the website of your DVD/CD drive manufacturer for a firmware update.
3. Make sure that DMA transfers is set to "on" for your DVD/CD drive. You can check this by going to: Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System -> Hardware Tab -> Device Manager -> IDE Controllers -> Rightclick Primary IDE Channel.
4. Defragment your HDD.