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Lost my external HD(D) that had all of game. Now I can not reinstall or uninstall on built in drive(C) because it cant find (D)

November 26, 2008 12:40:43 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

     The title takes care of it all. It's quite a problem. I can not install my game.

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Reply #1 November 26, 2008 8:10:23 AM
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You'll probably have to manually delete the registry entries for the game, it should be somewhere like HKEY_LOCAL_USER/Program Files/Dregnin.net/Sins (sorry, don't remember the exact path off-hand). Impulse uses the registry to detect installations so if you wipe it manually it should let you install the game fresh.

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Reply #2 November 26, 2008 2:24:36 PM
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Try CCleaner first. It'll usually take care of bad registry entries. If you still can't install, you have to delete the entries manually.

Manual regeditting can screw up your system though, so caution is advised... in other words, don't edit the registry unless you're absolutely sure about what you're doing.

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Reply #3 November 26, 2008 2:44:43 PM
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Mucho Gracias

Am I to delete all of the entries?

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Reply #4 November 26, 2008 3:00:36 PM
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OK. I've deleted the reg. it still does not give me the option to install a new

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Reply #5 November 26, 2008 3:16:21 PM
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Does Sins show up in the My Games tab on Impulse? If so, does it say Installed or Available?

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Reply #6 November 26, 2008 3:36:37 PM
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Hum the registry data for sins on my computer it at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Stardock/Drengin.Net/sins

You may want to check there to see if there is data there

Also you checked the controll pannels add/remove option to see if it thinks sins is installed?

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Reply #7 November 26, 2008 4:25:02 PM
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It shows up indeed

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Reply #8 November 26, 2008 4:26:30 PM
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it is "available"

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Reply #9 November 26, 2008 4:27:49 PM
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Im attempting to install through impulse now

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Reply #10 November 26, 2008 4:30:47 PM
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There you go

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Reply #11 November 26, 2008 6:15:12 PM
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Success! Thanks for your time and input folks, of course, especially Annatar

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