ok, i figured since i am not that good with computers that i'd ask some of the computer wizes out there. i was goin to install soa, but my comp froze during installation (typical of my crappy machine). and earlier when i went to try again, i found i havent enough free space to install. and since i lost 800mbs without reason, i thought it might have saved the installed material somewhere on my harddrive. but i can find it! does anyone know what happens to half installed stuff?

you can manually erase your BG2 folder with windows explorer. Then re install SOA from the run menu in your start popup.

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thnx for the welcome, but i am afraid that i have already deleted the soa folder, and i have used the explorer to attempt to install it. however there is still severe memory lossage after it froze trying to install

Hmm interesting. Try running disk defragmenter. I heard this may help.

You can try searching for files based on when there were modified. The stuff that is the newest is where the half installed game is. Were you running any kind of install watcher like norten? Then it is all laid out.

Perhaps you browsed to a new location, or didn't when you wanted to and it is lurking in the default loaction, or where ever you changed it to. The bottom line is, if you said go to C:\whatever\etc and you deleted those folders, it is gone, and should no longer be taking up space. If you created those files, but didn't browse to them the game auto installs to program files\bioware\bg2

How do you know you lost 800 mgs?

cause when i tried to install it the first time, i had enough (1.5 gb)
now i only got 800, and all i did was turn my comp off then on
i have enough now for a minimal install, but i'd rather not do that

<font color= "blue"> Trust me- Minimum INstall is FINE. And 1.5 gig free goes down to 800 meg?? Go to start-programs-accesories-system tools- scan disk. also run Your anti virus Software, and consider compressing a drive or 2... as for not enough free space- You should NOT have just deleted The SOA directory- UNINSTALL FIRST. U might want to do a system restore if nothing else works... go to start-programs-accesories-system tools- system restore, and select a date earlier than when you tried to install SOA, it will bring the windows registry back to what it was on this date, this only affects prgram files BTW </font>

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Smaug,try doing a file search.type in something like baldur and choose for it to search all of your hard drive.I did a bad install on mine once and although baldurs gate info could not be found anywhere on my system by maually looking,when I did a file search I found baldur files.It was a problem with my registry.I should also mention that whenever I let norton utilities repair my registry,it erases the path to my SOA game.It,s still there but whenever I tried to play it would ask me to install the game first.NO, it wasn,t frustrating at all.

... and on top of that all, how big is your Recycle Bin size from the HD size? Did you uninstall the game (probably not) or just delete it (probably yes)? If you just deleted, check in your Recycle Bin and see the size of it, there's a chance that all the stuff you deleted actually ends up there. Of course, this always depends on the size assigned to the bin and the HD size, but if it's a big HD (say 10+ gigs) and the bin size is some 10% of HD size (what the stupid default settings at times set it to), then it can be very well in the bin.

Also check your C:\TEMP folder and remove the trash in there; check C:\WINDOWS\TEMP and remove the trash from there (make sure you always empty the Recycle Bin from the trash as well).

Press "Start" - Find - Files or Folders.. and search for "Baldur" or "Black Isle" and delete these folders. Run the "Add/Remove Programs" in the Control Panel and check what stuff you all have installed in the first place. People keep installing one little thing and then another, thinking that 1 little thing never hurt anyone. True, but 100 little things sure do hurt.

Run Scandisk and let it check for the crappy stuff. That usually happens when you shut down your PC in 'abnormal' way, i.e. cut the power off; press hardware reset button since something hang the PC big time; had a power loss in the house while PC was running.. Run Defrag and let it finish. Check the size of the swap file. Really, many things here. Check these out and see if it helps.