Unable to Uninstall BI

**wkndwrrr** · 09-24-2006, 02:25

Bump.

Though It's not really urgent, I would still like someone to help me solve this problem sometime soon.

**Caius** · 09-24-2006, 18:46

Find in the CD of BI the file, copy and paste in the directory of uninstall, and run it again

**wkndwrrr** · 09-24-2006, 19:50

Originally Posted by Caius Flaminius

Find in the CD of BI the file, copy and paste in the directory of uninstall, and run it again

Wait, explain that in a little more detail... do you mean I should load something off the CD? I am unable to RE-install as well, if that is what you are telling me to do.

**CrossLOPER** · 09-25-2006, 19:29

Uninstall everything you can normally, then use the Add/Remove feature from your control panel. Scan your drive's whole registry, and delete everything that you FIRMLY believe belongs to the game. If this step makes uncomfortable, download this
and run it once. It should clear things up. You may also want to run Check disk, delete some unnecessary files, and defragment your drive(all from control panel).
Check your CD or damage or dirt, shut off all security, and try to reinstall.

**CrossLOPER** · 09-25-2006, 19:33

From what I understand, you tried to uninstall an expansion. This will screw up any game you might play, so it's generally not a good idea. BTW, my prior post always worked for any installation issues I had, but there may be less extreme methods.

**CrossLOPER** · 09-25-2006, 19:35

I'm bad for triple posting, but this is important. When I told you "Uninstall everything you can normally", I meant for both RTW and BI.

**wkndwrrr** · 09-26-2006, 00:50

Originally Posted by CrossLOPER

From what I understand, you tried to uninstall an expansion. This will screw up any game you might play, so it's generally not a good idea. BTW, my prior post always worked for any installation issues I had, but there may be less extreme methods.

Why? BI is dependent on vanilla rome, not vice versa, so uninstalling BI wouldn't affect the main game, right? Now, trying to unistall RTW while BI is still installed...I can see some problems arising there.

As to your earlier post, yes, I do feel somewhat nervous about what feels paramount to just wantonly going through my C:\ drive deleting things with "barbarian invasion" in the name, so I will try that program.

**wkndwrrr** · 09-26-2006, 01:05

That program did not solve it, I cleaned every registry problem on the computer, (all 600+ of them) and still got the same error message upon trying to uninstall.

**CrossLOPER** · 09-26-2006, 19:25

Originally Posted by wkndwrrr

Why? BI is dependent on vanilla rome, not vice versa, so uninstalling BI wouldn't affect the main game, right?

I am saying from experience that when you try to remove an expansion, several files that belong to the vanilla game may get dragged along, namely uninstall files that basically maroon the game on your system. Multiply times I have seen this Painkiller, Doom, and MTW.

I am a little confused by this line:

Originally Posted by wkndwrrr

Anyway, I recently discovered that I am unable to uninstall, as well as reinstall, BI

Can you please explain what you have done up to this point? Also, do you have any running mods?