Aaaah!! Virtual Space bookworms ate my CIV4!!

[shadow_archmagi]

When i tried to start civ4 up today (the last time i played was a few weeks back, and it worked fine. I used the mapmaker thing for the first time for a little while then) it said "Error, Gameinfo/playerinfooptions\somethingelse is missing. I looked in My Computer and sure enuogh, the file Gameinfo was empty. I decided my best bet was to reinstall it, so i uninstalled and then while i was uninstalling it kept saying lots of random files were missing. Things like /mongols/mongolspearman/spear/graphic or /leaders/isabellaearly/sounds/furious/war. I'd guess about a fifth of Civ altogether was missing, as the uninstall would alternate between just one file being missing and then 20 being smoothly, to somethinglike 30 misses in a row. Then when i reinstalled, it went fine until the 2nd disc, when i got a similar error message. I told it to ignore the error, as the other choices were abort or retry, and a few seconds later it closed altogether. Now i'm thinking "NO NOT CIV FOUR!! Dear god, please let the civ fanatics tell me how to solve this problem!"

I justify the title since the damage is like bookworms. Just a handful of numbers and letters in each folder got eaten.

 

[crunch]

Try to copy the contents of the cds to your hdd prior to installing. Launch install by running the setup.exe from hard drive.

 

[Peoplewithhats]

Try to copy the contents of the cds to your hdd prior to installing. Launch install by running the setup.exe from hard drive.

HUH??? I understood about two words from that.