Install problems please help :(

It needs to go in the dvd-rom drive.

Click on the DVD drive in My Computer. that'll open the FSX DVD.
Select install and see if that works.
If you get an error message please tell us exactly what it says.

You do have SP2 and all the latest updates, they came out with more this past Tuesday.

Have just installed FS2004 with 4 CDs.

When disk 1 finished the prompt came up to insert disk 2,so I did. Like you nothing. However when the prompt to insert disk 2 reappeared I just clicked "OK" having left CD2 in the drive. Lo and Behold away it went!!! Same happened on all the other disks. Took same action on all and install was successful.

Hope this helps

My Friday the 13th has gone quite well, found 20p in the Supermarket car park!! Will deliberate all evening on how to spend it!!!

It did go into the DVD Rom Drive 🙂

Basically I got nothing. I kept on getting the message to insert the dvd which I already had done so I continued to click OK. Then I opened the dvd rom and closed it again and still nothing. Checked My Computer - DVD. It indicated a dvd was not in the drive.

After 35 mins of searching on the web finding nothing and getting pinged to insert dvd2. I took out the dvd, re-inserted and clicked okay faster than ever. Might have been an act of god because suddenly the drive fired up.

It works now and been registered. I'm now to tired to play it LOL.

By The Way, In my trusty MS 98 version I got a sweet booklet with maps and atc, vor info of heaps of airports around the globe. This version doesn't have that. I think thats a big help to newbies like me, I was looking forward to getting a newer version of this. Hopefully the MS book I ordered for FSX will have these in.

Burners will act that way sometimes, a drive alone won't.
I had that problem with another piece of software once and had to keep hitting "OK" until it loaded.
Bad news!

Glad you have it installed.

👍

I seem to be having the same problem. I waited for MS support for about 70 minutes the other night. I was told to make sure that my dvd was drive D or E, which it wasn't. They hung up on me, and that didn't help.

I have been clicking on the insert disk 2 button for quite a while now, to no avail. I am using a DVD burner. Do I need to by a DVD drive to get this thing going?

Thanks for the help.

I just finished talking to Microsoft's support. I was unable to continue the install when prompted to insert disk 2. I unistalled nero, tried different programs and it didn't work.

The solution:
1. Uninstall Nero
2. Uninstall Nvidio
3. Unintall Intel Video Launcher

I have to say that I was on hold for about 10-15 minutes to reach a customer service representative, then I was transfered to a support person and was on hold for another 5-10 minutes. It was shorter than I had expected.

I hope that this help others. I spent about 4 hours closing processes and unistalling applications.

My configuration:
AMD FX57
1 DVD drive (Lieteon)
1 DVD burner (Pioneer)