My computer is being a dick.

[strangetomato]

So I bought the Generations EP. Exciting, right? I brought it home and plopped it in the DVD drive tray, sent it back in, and waited for it to load.

It didn't.

I took it out and tried it again. And again. And then tried accessing it through the control panel.

Nada.

So then I took it to work with me to see if it would load there (when my boss wasn't looking, obviously :P). It did! So it seems my DVD drive is shot. And now I have a game sitting here, unable to play it. *sighs* I was so looking forward to seeing if I could have my sims have a same sex bachelorette party.

Just wanted to share my sad tale. You may resume your regularly scheduled activities now.

Comments

[silentsteel.livejournal.com]

I hope a good disk drive cleaning will help - also disabling auto-read if it's on. Haaaate that little program. It interrupts EVERYTHING and forks up installations. :p

Good luck!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Auto-read seems like my only hope for launching this, unfortunately. When I go through to the DVD drive under My Computer, it just opens the tray and tells me to insert a disk, even though it's already in there. It seems like the auto option is now randomly and very rarely launching the installation disk (it happened once last night, but I had other programs open).

Thanks. I think I'm going to need it.