Half Life 2 Episode One Instal Error ?

Plenty 320Gig, funny thing is i have now downloaded through steam and it
plays fine but i cannot install from the CD i have due to ongoing message,
so every time install now i have to go throught steam what did i pay for the
cd for in the first place....


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> And the amount of free space on your hard drive is?
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>> Sorry for repost
>>
>> Every time i try to install this game i keep getting "not enough disk
>> space
>> to run steam"
>>
>> Half life 2 install ok but this is a headache, also googled it no luck.
>>
>> Enyone else had the same issue or now how to fix it please.
>>
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"Blah" <Blah.DeleteThis@blah.com> wrote in message
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> Plenty 320Gig, funny thing is i have now downloaded through steam and it
> plays fine but i cannot install from the CD i have due to ongoing message,
> so every time install now i have to go throught steam what did i pay for
> the cd for in the first place....

> "David B." <brooks.dj.DeleteThis@nomail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23TfX0oyFIHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> And the amount of free space on your hard drive is?

>> "Blah" <Blah.DeleteThis@blah.com> wrote in message
>> news:53C3EE13-F048-4752-AB56-18E05CFBD8DE@microsoft.com...
>>> Sorry for repost
>>>
>>> Every time i try to install this game i keep getting "not enough disk
>>> space
>>> to run steam"
>>>
>>> Half life 2 install ok but this is a headache, also googled it no luck.
>>>
>>> Enyone else had the same issue or now how to fix it please.

That's how much free space you have or how big your hard drive is. I can
sneeze and fill up a 320 Gig HD. Assuming your hard drive has at least 40
Gigs free I'd say call support and ask them (there's a phone number in the
manual), and see what they have to say. Most install programs now a days are
used to unusually large hard drives, if your system is failing the space
check, it could simply be that you don't have enough free space.

Try Disk Cleanup (right-click C: drive icon, choose properties, then click
Disk Cleanup button).
Chkdsk and Defrag your hard drive, sometimes your FAT can get messed up and
report the wrong amount of space or claim that files take up more space then
they are supposed too, chkdsk and defrag can fix all that.

Reply here if that no workie, include your system specs, use some program
like PC Wizard or Everest or soemthing.

Good luckie, I just use steam, doesn't seem to make much sense to buy the
CDs anymore. Download from steam, use the built in application to make your
own game CDs (Copies the Steam GCF files to DVD-Rs for backup) is another
way to have a local copy of the data in case you want to uninstall down the
line.

-A.

You would have had to pay to download it from Steam if you hadn't bought the
cd, so no difference really.

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"Blah" <Blah DeleteThis @blah.com> wrote in message
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> Plenty 320Gig, funny thing is i have now downloaded through steam and it
> plays fine but i cannot install from the CD i have due to ongoing message,
> so every time install now i have to go throught steam what did i pay for
> the cd for in the first place....
>
>
> "David B." <brooks.dj DeleteThis @nomail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23TfX0oyFIHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> And the amount of free space on your hard drive is?
>>
>> --
>>
>> ----
>> Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>> How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
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>> _________________________________________________________________________________
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>> "Blah" <Blah DeleteThis @blah.com> wrote in message
>> news:53C3EE13-F048-4752-AB56-18E05CFBD8DE@microsoft.com...
>>> Sorry for repost
>>>
>>> Every time i try to install this game i keep getting "not enough disk
>>> space
>>> to run steam"
>>>
>>> Half life 2 install ok but this is a headache, also googled it no luck.
>>>
>>> Enyone else had the same issue or now how to fix it please.
>>>
>>
>

This maybe a read issue from the CD you have. I've seen plenty of these
erroneous messages about insufficient disk space due to read errors.
Assuming you have the free space available which given your response it
appears you do.


"Blah" <Blah.RemoveThis@blah.com> wrote in message
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> Plenty 320Gig, funny thing is i have now downloaded through steam and it
> plays fine but i cannot install from the CD i have due to ongoing message,
> so every time install now i have to go throught steam what did i pay for
> the cd for in the first place....
>
>
> "David B." <brooks.dj.RemoveThis@nomail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23TfX0oyFIHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> And the amount of free space on your hard drive is?
>>
>> --
>>
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>> Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
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>> _________________________________________________________________________________
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>> "Blah" <Blah.RemoveThis@blah.com> wrote in message
>> news:53C3EE13-F048-4752-AB56-18E05CFBD8DE@microsoft.com...
>>> Sorry for repost
>>>
>>> Every time i try to install this game i keep getting "not enough disk
>>> space
>>> to run steam"
>>>
>>> Half life 2 install ok but this is a headache, also googled it no luck.
>>>
>>> Enyone else had the same issue or now how to fix it please.
>>>
>>
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