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Halo 2 Asking for disk everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone
Everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone level, and the cut scene plays where
the brutes shoot you off the edge, it comes up with a message "Please insert your original Halo 2 disk". What I have done so far is uninstall/reinstall of Halo 2, no luck. Decided I could use a fresh install of Windows anyway, so reinstalled that, and then Halo 2, still no luck. Figured maybe there was a problem with my disk, returned it to the store and exchanged for a new one. Again, did a fresh install, played through to this point, and get the message at the same point. I don't even get an option to do anything but say ok, and it takes me back to the main menu. I've tried playing with and without the disk in the drive. Inserting the disk only when it asks, and ejecting and closing the drive, and it will not do anything with the disk, even though it asks. I have tried everything I can think of, 2 installs of Vista, and multiple fresh installs of Halo 2, and still no luck! |
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Halo 2 Asking for disk everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone
Kefner,
This is happening to me and many others as well. I thought that maybe since I got my CD early from Circuit City before the recall that the files on the CD are corrupt. Since you said you returned yours for a new copy that might not be the case. Whatever the problem is Microsoft needs to put out a fix since this is not an isolated problem. "Kefner" wrote: Everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone level, and the cut scene plays where the brutes shoot you off the edge, it comes up with a message "Please insert your original Halo 2 disk". What I have done so far is uninstall/reinstall of Halo 2, no luck. Decided I could use a fresh install of Windows anyway, so reinstalled that, and then Halo 2, still no luck. Figured maybe there was a problem with my disk, returned it to the store and exchanged for a new one. Again, did a fresh install, played through to this point, and get the message at the same point. I don't even get an option to do anything but say ok, and it takes me back to the main menu. I've tried playing with and without the disk in the drive. Inserting the disk only when it asks, and ejecting and closing the drive, and it will not do anything with the disk, even though it asks. I have tried everything I can think of, 2 installs of Vista, and multiple fresh installs of Halo 2, and still no luck! |
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Halo 2 Asking for disk everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone
"CVScorp" wrote in message
... Kefner, This is happening to me and many others as well. I thought that maybe since I got my CD early from Circuit City before the recall that the files on the CD are corrupt. Since you said you returned yours for a new copy that might not be the case. Whatever the problem is Microsoft needs to put out a fix since this is not an isolated problem. Not isolated to my system. When you say "many" others, do you mean everyone that's having the problem and posting about it online? Because that's usually a lower percentage than you think it is. |
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Halo 2 Asking for disk everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone
"Andy" wrote in message
... "CVScorp" wrote in message ... Not isolated to my system. When you say "many" others, do you mean everyone that's having the problem and posting about it online? Because that's usually a lower percentage than you think it is. I take it back, second time through I got it. I think it has something to do with Live for Windows. I wasn't logged in the first time. Well ain't that a bitch. Damn doesn't Redmond test their crappy titles. |
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Halo 2 Asking for disk everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone
Well the thing is, when I got a new copy, it has the "sticker" on it warning
of partial nudity, so it is probably still one of the first runs. I guess I will just hold off and see if the next patch fixes this. Im tired of trying to figure it out. If anyone can help though, please let me know. Keith "CVScorp" wrote: Kefner, This is happening to me and many others as well. I thought that maybe since I got my CD early from Circuit City before the recall that the files on the CD are corrupt. Since you said you returned yours for a new copy that might not be the case. Whatever the problem is Microsoft needs to put out a fix since this is not an isolated problem. "Kefner" wrote: Everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone level, and the cut scene plays where the brutes shoot you off the edge, it comes up with a message "Please insert your original Halo 2 disk". What I have done so far is uninstall/reinstall of Halo 2, no luck. Decided I could use a fresh install of Windows anyway, so reinstalled that, and then Halo 2, still no luck. Figured maybe there was a problem with my disk, returned it to the store and exchanged for a new one. Again, did a fresh install, played through to this point, and get the message at the same point. I don't even get an option to do anything but say ok, and it takes me back to the main menu. I've tried playing with and without the disk in the drive. Inserting the disk only when it asks, and ejecting and closing the drive, and it will not do anything with the disk, even though it asks. I have tried everything I can think of, 2 installs of Vista, and multiple fresh installs of Halo 2, and still no luck! |
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Halo 2 Asking for disk everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone
"Kefner" wrote in message ... Well the thing is, when I got a new copy, it has the "sticker" on it warning of partial nudity, so it is probably still one of the first runs. I guess I will just hold off and see if the next patch fixes this. Im tired of trying to figure it out. If anyone can help though, please let me know. Keith The "Nudity" in Halo 2 was some guy showing his ass in an error screen on the map editor. Other than that there's no difference between the 2 versions of Halo 2 PC. You might want to poke around the Bungie forums. (http://www.bungie.net/forums/topics.aspx?forumID=2) maybe someone has a fix posted. I looked, couldn't find one in the first 2 topics I looked at, but people are talking about the problem. Don't think a patch is planned right away, you could be waiting a while, and the patch might not address your problem. Might as well keep pluggin away. -a. |
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Halo 2 Asking for disk everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone
This is a common problem and has been posted on the Halo 2 Vista forums.
The work around is....start your game up in campaign mode, and SELECT LEVEL. I believe the next level is called GRAVEMIND or something like that... Now you can finish the campaign. Later... "Kefner" wrote in message ... Everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone level, and the cut scene plays where the brutes shoot you off the edge, it comes up with a message "Please insert your original Halo 2 disk". What I have done so far is uninstall/reinstall of Halo 2, no luck. Decided I could use a fresh install of Windows anyway, so reinstalled that, and then Halo 2, still no luck. Figured maybe there was a problem with my disk, returned it to the store and exchanged for a new one. Again, did a fresh install, played through to this point, and get the message at the same point. I don't even get an option to do anything but say ok, and it takes me back to the main menu. I've tried playing with and without the disk in the drive. Inserting the disk only when it asks, and ejecting and closing the drive, and it will not do anything with the disk, even though it asks. I have tried everything I can think of, 2 installs of Vista, and multiple fresh installs of Halo 2, and still no luck! |
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Halo 2 Asking for disk everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone
That worked! Thanks man!!!!!!!!!!
"Chris Hagler" wrote: This is a common problem and has been posted on the Halo 2 Vista forums. The work around is....start your game up in campaign mode, and SELECT LEVEL. I believe the next level is called GRAVEMIND or something like that... Now you can finish the campaign. Later... "Kefner" wrote in message ... Everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone level, and the cut scene plays where the brutes shoot you off the edge, it comes up with a message "Please insert your original Halo 2 disk". What I have done so far is uninstall/reinstall of Halo 2, no luck. Decided I could use a fresh install of Windows anyway, so reinstalled that, and then Halo 2, still no luck. Figured maybe there was a problem with my disk, returned it to the store and exchanged for a new one. Again, did a fresh install, played through to this point, and get the message at the same point. I don't even get an option to do anything but say ok, and it takes me back to the main menu. I've tried playing with and without the disk in the drive. Inserting the disk only when it asks, and ejecting and closing the drive, and it will not do anything with the disk, even though it asks. I have tried everything I can think of, 2 installs of Vista, and multiple fresh installs of Halo 2, and still no luck! |
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Halo 2 Asking for disk everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone
"Chris Hagler" wrote in message
... This is a common problem and has been posted on the Halo 2 Vista forums. The work around is....start your game up in campaign mode, and SELECT LEVEL. I believe the next level is called GRAVEMIND or something like that... Now you can finish the campaign. Later... Odd, didn't work for me, was giving me errors, like your achievements don't match what's on windows live and it won't let me play the next level, only one it'll let me do is the level like 2 parts back. weird. Anyone know if there's a forum post at bungie.net about this? I couldn't find anything. |
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Halo 2 Asking for disk everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone
Do this. It worked for me.
"Because the insert disc message appears at the transition between two levels, you can start the new level and abandon your previous checkpoint. To do this: 1) Restart Halo 2 2) Select Campaign 3) DO NOT select continue, select to choose the level 4) Find the latest level and start it, skipping over the transition between the level before it and that which seems to cause the problem" Regards RiverDog Note: Achievements will not be lost through this fix, so don't worry "Kefner" wrote in message ... Everytime I finish the Quarantine Zone level, and the cut scene plays where the brutes shoot you off the edge, it comes up with a message "Please insert your original Halo 2 disk". What I have done so far is uninstall/reinstall of Halo 2, no luck. Decided I could use a fresh install of Windows anyway, so reinstalled that, and then Halo 2, still no luck. Figured maybe there was a problem with my disk, returned it to the store and exchanged for a new one. Again, did a fresh install, played through to this point, and get the message at the same point. I don't even get an option to do anything but say ok, and it takes me back to the main menu. I've tried playing with and without the disk in the drive. Inserting the disk only when it asks, and ejecting and closing the drive, and it will not do anything with the disk, even though it asks. I have tried everything I can think of, 2 installs of Vista, and multiple fresh installs of Halo 2, and still no luck! |
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