Defragment your drive. You need about a gigabit of area, also, you still need your virtual area for the memory deal. Which OS are you running, and what is your drive size/space available?

ive got 17.6gb left and i'll try defraging my computer now,

sorry i dont know what an OS is,

Thanks for your help Finalday

OS = Operating system aka 98, 2000, XP. If a hard drive is heavily fragmented, it will interfere with installing a game.

My OS is windows XP, i defraged my computer and my disk drive but its still coming up with this...

'Freelancer Setup encountered a disk error while writing to the file C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\data\base...\br_02_cambridge_cityscape.cmp.
Make sure your hard disk is not full, and that the file is not in use.'

Thanks FInalday

One thing, open My Computer and the C: drive and find the microsoft folder. Delete the Freelamcer folder and empty the trash and try again to install. If you get the same error, you disk may have a smudge or scratch on it.

ohok thanks for your help

*sorry for double post

what do you recommend if this keeps to continue

If the freelancer disk is damaged, the only recourse is to replace it. Sorry.

Post if you get it to install.

Edited by - Finalday on 4/9/2005 9:09:14 PM

nope it still isnt working,

anyway thanks for your help finalday

I can't help with your problem, but perhaps I can help you getting a more meaningful error message.

Start Windows Explorer and open you CD. You will find a large file with the name cab2.cab. This is a compressed file containing the game files.

Doubleclick on cab2.cab and you can see the contents. Find the file which is causing the error (br_02_cambridge_cityscape.cmp) and drag it to a folder on your hard drive. If there is a problem reading the CD, I assume you will be told so.

thanks, i'll try now