hope it works for you if you haven't been abel to find a solution yet. I rebooted by system and started the install again - everything installed, then I installed the Barbarian Invasion.so far so good - Still hasn't asked me for a cd Key.? Online support says that the upgrade patches are not needed if you have the gold version.Couldn't find any phone numbers for tech support. where you installed the game and look in program files for The Creative Group - delete the folder, then remove it from the recycle bin. then I deleted the total war directory - go to the h.d.

On install, disc 2 hung up.readme file says: eject and insert disc again and this should clear it up - I couldn't do that.so, if you know how to edit your registry, use regedit and search for all incidents of Total War - I found 3 or 4 references to total war, and deleted these lines, and these lines only - be very careful not to delete anything else except total war - you can mess up a lot of your software if you're not careful.

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