I am sure you have all had this sort of a problem before. You have a piece of software on CD or DVD, pop the disc into the drive, start going through the install and then WHAMMO! The install bombs out, gives you some error that you start googling, try everything you can find to no avail, and finally break down and get a new copy of the software. It sucks cause you only had the disc for a couple months, and yeah the company won’t send you out a replacement.

Well, I’ve run into that scenario and here is a set of things to try before spending the money on a new set of discs:

1) Try to copy the CD or DVD to your hard drive. If it gives you a CRC error or any error, put in a known good disc and copy to make sure it is not the drive itself.

2) If it is not the drive itself, and you can get a trial version of the software, download it. No you won’t be installing the trial version, but it will allow you to access the files and folders that can not be read off the CD.

3) Once the trial is downloaded, let it extract and then Copy whatever wouldn’t from the CD from the trial install area. Copy them into where the CD was being copied to.

4) Finally install off the hard drive. Use your key from the CD, everything in most cases will install just fine.

Yeah its a little time consuming and a pain, but I think its better than spending the money on the software again. Of course ti all depends on how much the software cost you.