cannot install anymore

[AMIgaBot]

i got emperor  for  44 euros few days ago , i today  wanted to install it.. and this happened to me

when i placed cd into drive, game says me that i need to put cd1 into drive.  IT WAS CD1 so i dont know what was going on, i tried on second  cd-rom and same problem.. this is so  awful.. i bought  this game  for  damn 44 euros and it not work...  its for me waste of money for orginal game.. so please help me on what to do with this

wreck

[thesnake]

u have msn?

[thesnake]

i got emperor  for  44 euros few days ago ,

wtf,, its 2 dolars on ebay

[Megashrap]

Try installing it in windows 98 or 2000 mode. See if that works.

[thesnake]

his cd player cant see the install cd.. what dose that have to do with win??

[AMIgaBot]

how it looks

i bought  orginal emp box with 4 cd's

when i put cd 1 into my drive i can browse  the cd  BUT when i run setup , i get msg "please insert disc into cd-rom" ... installfix not work.  tried compatability mode  stilll not work. when i run  prog to gather  system informations it detect my

pentium 4  3,77ghz

1gb ram

ati radeon x1300 series 256mb

mouse/keyboard standard

windows xp proffesional

hdd 2x80gb

as

pentium 2 -1462mhz

1022mb ram

ati radeon x1300 series 256mb

mouse keyboard standard

windows 2000 with service pack 2

i tried to burn orginal cd to another cd and replace  setup.exe with installfix and burned that and no effect, same message.  i had before orginal emp too but bmy drive  crushed  cd's  , im not gonna buy  emp third time :/  so help me to install this game with avoiding  setup.exe  as there must be way.

[Megashrap]

Have you tried setting your cd rom to auto play, thats how mine works it says install, browse cd or cancel. just trying to troubleshoot that's all. We will figure it out.  ;)

[AMIgaBot]

it worked somehow for now and i  am able to play (installed it now) but   

i cant patch game

it says that game.exe is older or something. i  got patch manuallly but still cant patch :/