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brittany_aaliyah
Rising Novice
12 years ago

Sims 3 Town Life and Into the Future won't download? Please Help?

A few days ago, I bought Town Life Stuff and Into the Future for my Laptop. When I tried to install them, Town Life Stuff gets stuck on - File:  

D: \GameData\Shared\Packages\FullBuild_p09.package.

By Stuck, I mean my drive begins to click very loudly and won't continue to install the game, so I had to take the disk out. 

(The Error - The Device is not ready, but obviously because I took the disk out.)

It also did this for Into the Future but on - File:  

D: \GameData\Shared\Packages\FullBuild_p21.package

**It scratched my games also...**

Is it my drive or my games? (I had CC but I took it all out..)

What should/can I do?

**Into the Future's installation progress got a lot farther than Town Life Stuff** 

8 Replies

  • rumbutter's avatar
    rumbutter
    Hero (Retired)
    12 years ago

    @brittany_aaliyah wrote:

    PC (Windows 7 if that helps any lol)


    🙂

    yeah it does help because if it was a mac then we would ask our mac player/helper to assist you 🙂

    do other disks work in the drive  cd's ? movies?

  • brittany_aaliyah's avatar
    brittany_aaliyah
    Rising Novice
    12 years ago

    DVDs -Yes, but it takes just as long for it to be read as it does my Sims games.. 

    CDs - Yes 😕mileyhappy: 

    The CDs are read much faster than the DVDs, the CD automatically was read, the DVD took maybe 2 or 3 times of me taking it out due to the clicking noises

  • rumbutter's avatar
    rumbutter
    Hero (Retired)
    12 years ago

    if it's taking time to read a regular DVD then that may be your issue the optical drive ( the dvd drive ) lens may need cleaning or is starting to wear out you can if you wish if the games are registered  to your account and if origin is downloaded to your computer log in from the desktop with your email and password you use for your account  download the digital versions of your games so you won't need to rely on a disk

    for some time my dvd drive was broke and i had to wait to save up for a new one but i was able to use a portable cd/dvd drive to play my games until i got a new dvd drive and had it installed  in the computer

    the only thing i'm not sure on tbh is as i don't know if a partial install took place and if there are files or folders you'll need to search for and remove i'll ask in the helpers corner about that

  • rumbutter's avatar
    rumbutter
    Hero (Retired)
    12 years ago

    @brittany_aaliyah wrote:

    Okay, Thank you so much! 😕mileyvery-happy:


    welcomes 🙂

    someone will reply to you as soon as they are online, besides i need to know too :D

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