Silly but Serious problem

[Bonded]

Hi DB community,

Im embarrassed to say so but Im facing a really stupid problem I need help with.

With WotLK coming out I cannot seem to be able to install XP on 2 different drives. I installed on the 1st drive with no probs, but now, whenever I put the DVD in the autoplay only gives the option of playing the game (or support, readme etc..)
Ive tried to explore the media and directly hit the installer link but the result is the same.

Im sure you all faced that issue and resolved it so Im sorry for being dumb, but any ideas?

[heffner]

XP = expansion pack? You can just copy your directory over to the second drive using Explorer. No need to install it again. Otherwise, don't use Autoplay and run the setup.exe (or whatever it is) from the DVD and select the other drive, typically you have that option when you install sometihng, but I don't have the expansion atm so I don't know what exactly it does.

[Zal]

right click -> copy
right click -> paste

[Bonded]

Ill try copy paste thanks guys

[merujo]

copy paste all except the WTF folder.

[Frosty]

There were some posts in the support forums about installing to different locations.

It requires you to use regedit though.. I did it for my 3 computers and it worked..

Extremely bad planning IMHO to not let you select a location to install.

[Quix]

I had the same problem & found a quick/simple solution. Before RegEdit or even a long copy paste operation you might consider this:

1. Upgrade all accounts via the wow web site & your CD keys.

2. Install the expansion as normal to your first/main wow directory.

3. Hit start on your second copy of wow. You will get a Pop Up, explaining that you don't have wrath installed (for that copy of course).

4. Run the installer.

For whatever reason,The installer will update the one you just tried to start with no additional input needed. At least that worked for me, for 3 wow directiries on one machine.

[Svpernova09]

I had the same problem & found a quick/simple solution. Before RegEdit or even a long copy paste operation you might consider this:

1. Upgrade all accounts via the wow web site & your CD keys.

2. Install the expansion as normal to your first/main wow directory.

3. Hit start on your second copy of wow. You will get a Pop Up, explaining that you don't have wrath installed (for that copy of course).

4. Run the installer.

For whatever reason,The installer will update the one you just tried to start with no additional input needed. At least that worked for me, for 3 wow directiries on one machine.This works because when you launch wow it creates / updates all the registry keys with paths. So when the installer reads the path from the registry it was the path from the last WoW instance that was run.

[Drizzit]

WTF folderlol i just noticed that world of warcraft has a What the F**k folder

[Frosty]

WTF folderlol i just noticed that world of warcraft has a What the F**k folder
You must give me half your post count for this blasphemy! :P

[Caspian]

My install was a nightmare. Well, at least a bad dream. I have 6 accounts, 1 main 5 linked minus the WTF. WotLK wanted to install over one of the linked accounts, not the main. When I told it no, it got mad at me and wiped out the entire directory. After we wrestled around it decided that it would let me install where I wanted and not in User/games whatever. When I launched wow (from where I thought it was) I got some crazy you are missing crap errors. Looked them up, tech support forums said repair, if that fails reinstall. well repair failed so I said screw it. But! It tricked me. I had said to go to Program Files (x86) where wow was but it went to regular program files instead. which was odd because it used the Patches to update from (x86) in regular Program Files. So I saved off all my WTFs and my main Interface and wacked all my original directories. Popped in the DvD again to reinstall, got no option to install, just play. So I played and it worked and was like WTF (not the folder). I even restored my folders and launched from the folder and got errors again. I dug around a finally figured out what had happened. I still have no idea how it got all of my orginal wow and tbc stuff to the program files from (x86). I ended up just redoing my links in there and dumping in my config folders. In the process, somhow my Addons folders ended up set up correctly but their subdirectories were all empty so I had to reinstall all my addons, I am glad I keep an archive of them. Finally get up and running after the 2 hour epic MS/Blizzard battle and go to log in and hit 500+ queues for a 45 minute wait to log in. Le sigh.