Can't reinstall game after secondary drive format

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It get's a bit complicated, bear with me :P .

 

I have an IDE drive (windows) and a SATA drive (linux) . I had a partition set aside on the SATA drive because my Windows drive is so tiny. I just reinstalled linux, and formatted the drive. I didn't think that formatting a few games would be a problem, but it was.

Whenever I try to reinstall, it asks to repair. But it fails with an error. Originally it was a 'path has an illegal character' because windows reorganized the drive letters after the format, I fixed that with regedit. But now it gets a bit further and says:

"The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2343."

 

I'm guessing that the solution is to go through regedit and delete some links in there. But I barely know enough about regedit to modify drive names (if this were linux I could fix it, but windows is crazy :P) .

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

If you nuked the files without a clean uninstall, just remove the sins key from HKLM\Software\Stardock\Drengin.net and it should let you do a fresh install.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting kryo, reply 1
If you nuked the files without a clean uninstall, just remove the sins key from HKLM\Software\Stardock\Drengin.net and it should let you do a fresh install.
End of kryo's quote

 

I tried that before I posted, and it didn't work. However, after looking around regedit for a while, I found a search function, and did a search for stardock, and found one at 'HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/GameUX/GamesToFindOnWindowsUpgrade/(some numbers and my CD key :) ) .

 

It has the game install path, so I'ma delete it and see what happens....It didn't work, but I may have to restart....restarting :) .

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

That didn't work either. I even downloaded a few regestry key fixers and none of them work either.

 

Oh well, the partition I made is larger that this hard drive, so I can easily back up my stuff and reinstall windows. Yet one more reason I prefer Linux over Windows. Thanks for your help Kryo.