My Kitchen and Bath Interior Design completely vanished!
talysman:
Are you on 98/ME, or on XP?
Here are the Microsoft support articles on that kind of a disc issue:
How to troubleshoot common problems that occur when a Windows 98-based or Windows Millennium Edition-based computer cannot read a CD or a DVD
How to troubleshoot common problems that occur when a Windows XP-based computer cannot read a CD or a DVD
You will note that the first article specifically mentions "<program> is not a valid win32 application" as one of several error messages indicating a problem reading the disc.
Also, nosing around their database for similar issues, I see that the error sometimes occurs when a disc has incorrect localization information in the autorun.inf file... in other words, an incompatibility between language versions. Did you install from the disc, or did you install from an ISO image?
You might want to try using Disk Cleanup to empty the temporary files folder.
KinwatsaZ:
I'm on XP. Emptied the temp files folder.... Read through the articles...No upgrades show up for the CD Drive at windows update....AND I used this disk to install K&B originally. I also was very careful to take to nocd out and re "exe" the original BV program file. I haven't tried the disk in another computer. I guess it would just give me a message. I will try that. I guess the disk could have mysteriously contracted a damage from the first install to this attempt. The message is still "Not a valid Win32 file. Weird. K
KinwatsaZ:
Tried the disk in my Vista system. It worked fine. So the disk isn't bad.
Uninstalled and reinstalled the drive. No dice....
Went into regedit (fearless ain't I?) Took out all references to K&B and Kitchen & Bath Interior etc.
No dice...
Tried a music CD....It was recognized, but said it couldn't play it. To clean it and try again.
The second music CD I tried just said it couldn't be read.
So...even though I can write to it and read the file names and even get a few of them to download...I would have to conclude that my CD drive is borked.
Got a call into my tech..."Bring me out a new drive!" If a new drive should happen to fail...then I live without my K&B.
J. M. Pescado:
See, this is why you try to avoid anything so crass as actual, physical disks, as drives have an extremely short operating life given the demands of crap like ScrewUROM.
KinwatsaZ:
Pescado, Did SecuRom install itself on this system when I installed the Kitchen & Bath? I didn't run the game from a disk, I thought the Stuff Packs were okay, since I used the nocd crack to run the game after I put the stuff pack in. It had better not be on this system, since that was the reason for the nocd to start with.
Maybe the drive is just that old already...6 years at least. Have the tech coming out this week and he will have to take this thing away again and make it work! K
P.S. Of course, back in October when my system failed big time...no USB, bad mobo etc. SecuRom was on there then. Maybe it damaged the CD drive then and it is just showing up now. Everything else is new except the DVD/CD drive. I knew at the time I should get the new one in.
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