half life 2 "hl2.cab" problem

[seamus]

when i try to install half life 2, it tells me it can't read hl2.cab. if i try to copy the file off the dvd i get a cyclic redundancy check error. can i get a copy of hl2.cab off someone please? or failing that a copy of the game. i have my own cd-key so there's nothing illegal about it. thanx

and does anyone know if i can make an iso of the dvd and mount it on a virtual drive and install it that way once i get hl2.cab? Will that make valve think the game is stolen?

[Spinner]

when i try to install half life 2, it tells me it can't read hl2.cab. if i try to copy the file off the dvd i get a cyclic redundancy check error. can i get a copy of hl2.cab off someone please? or failing that a copy of the game. i have my own cd-key so there's nothing illegal about it. thanx

and does anyone know if i can make an iso of the dvd and mount it on a virtual drive and install it that way once i get hl2.cab? Will that make valve think the game is stolen?Try installing the game with its installation defaults e.g Counter Strike to be installed etc. That should fix it. Presuming of course there is nothing wrong with your DVD reader and you do in fact have a genuine copy of the game.

Let me know how you get on.

[EMT]

Make sure the CD (er... DVD?) is clean and everything.

[seamus]

i had all the defaults selected. i think its a faulty dvd because of getting the cyclic redundancy check error. i tried copying all the files off the dvd and its not just hl2.cab thats the prob. lots of files won't copy. does anyone know where i can download it? i'd have to pay for it again to download it off steam. if i can get that I'm sorted

[Cyclonite]

Maybe it's your DVD Drive. You have a friend's you can test it in?

[Animal]

if you download steam http://steampowered.com and then you should be able to put in your serial number that you got with the game and download it that way.

[EMT]

Yeah try another drive. And if it still doesn't work you may as well return it... it never worked, right? Maybe they don't allow that anyway though.

edit- Oh, duh, good call animal.

[seamus]

i haven't tried it with another dvd drive. but the cyclic redundancy check error isn't a good sign. as well, the fact that most of the files copy says to me bad cd. im gonna try my m8s cd and see if that works. if it does ill copy it and if not ill get a new drive. thanks for all your help

and i can't bring it back cos my gf can't find the receipt :bawling:

i tried your suggestion already animal. it tells me i have to have to have hl2 installed to register it as a hard copy version. but thanks anyway

[TheSmJ]

Sounds like a DVD-ROM issue to me. Try a cd-drve cleaner (you can buy them at just about any store that sells DVD players, stereos, computers, etc for less than $10), or compressed air as a last resort.

If none of that works, you'll prolly need a new drive. It's happened to me way too many times; first the drive has issues reading data, and eventually it can't see the CD at all.

[GrayFox]

when i try to install half life 2, it tells me it can't read hl2.cab. if i try to copy the file off the dvd i get a cyclic redundancy check error. can i get a copy of hl2.cab off someone please? or failing that a copy of the game. i have my own cd-key so there's nothing illegal about it. thanx

and does anyone know if i can make an iso of the dvd and mount it on a virtual drive and install it that way once i get hl2.cab? Will that make valve think the game is stolen?
Commen error for malfuncting cdrom drives or damaged cds

[TheSmJ]

I should also add that I've seen one hell of a lot more malfunctioning CD-ROM drives than I have bad stamped CDs.

[Cyclonite]

Ditto on that one. I actually had two computers just come through with malfunction optical drives. They were having similar issues as you are.