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Can't re-install Call Of Duty 4

bentbent Registered User regular
edited August 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
Basically I was using a friends copy (on the PC) and uninstalled it after a while as we wanted to play together rather than make do with the same CD key. Now that I've bought my own new copy I can't actually install it; I'm not given the option to.

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^ These are my options. There's no residual folders left over from the last install under program files, and it doesn't appear in the general 'uninstall programs' list either.

Clicking uninstall on the DVD does nothing, as, expectedly, neither do play multiplayer or singleplayer.

Any ideas?

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    clean out the registry.

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  • DmanDman Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I've heard there are some draconian anti piracy things on new software only allowing so many installs per purchased copy, but if yours is New this shouldn't be an issue.

    Have you tried doing a "find" on your hard drive to look for any residual call of duty files/folders?

    Edit: wunderbar and oremlk have some good ideas, try those

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  • OremLKOremLK Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Is that just the auto-run? I'm not sure if CoD4 is one of those screwy games where it doesn't let you manually re-install, but have you tried checking the DVD drive for setup.exe or something of the like?

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  • bentbent Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I checked the registry and there's nothing I recognised as either activision or CoD4; however I've found a solution now, I'm just running setup.exe from inside the DVD rather than autoplay.

    Thread over! Thanks for help though.

    edit: heh, you guys hit the nail on the head. I'm still somewhat confused as to what residual files must have been left on my HDD.

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