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When I try to install Half-Life (CD 1 of 4; The Half-Life Generation Pack; retail), I get this message: An I/O error occurred while installing a file. This is normally caused by bad installation media or a corrupt installation file."

The CD is clean, and I am installing it to an NTFS drive. Any idea what is wrong?

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  King Mustard said:
When I try to install Half-Life (CD 1 of 4; The Half-Life Generation Pack; retail), I get this message: An I/O error occurred while installing a file. This is normally caused by bad installation media or a corrupt installation file."

The CD is clean, and I am installing it to an NTFS drive. Any idea what is wrong?

I get the exact same error while installing Steam, however if I keep clicking retry it will eventually get to the end of the installation. I cant remember if this also used to happen with my retail HL GOTY CD.

  fuel925 said:
I get the exact same error while installing Steam, however if I keep clicking retry it will eventually get to the end of the installation. I cant remember if this also used to happen with my retail HL GOTY CD.

You know what? I used Spybot S&D and cleaned everything it thought it was wrong. That stopped my Kazaa Lite K++ 2.4.3 working and Windows is giving me a lot of memory errors (definetely related to SB S&D!). Now this I/O error. I am going to reinstall Windows XP I think *effort* and stick to Ad-aware.

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