Is there a trick to loading software on

[g48dd]

Hey I have a friend’s brand new laptop by xoticpc out of California. It's built on a Clevo 901 c but has a Sager name on it. Anyway he is running Windows XP Home O/S , Intl Core Duo 2.66, three hard drives in RAID 0 config, 4 gig RAM, with 2 nVidia 7950 cards. He wanted me to install Microsoft Flight Sim X on it. I could not get it to install. It is a brand new copy I had never used, but just in case it might be bad, I tried installing my copy. Same thing happened, it starts install just fine but when it comes time to put in second disk, it hangs. So I tried installing my version of Microsoft Flight Sim 9. That comes with 4 disks. It installed ok but it won’t run. All I get is the opening splash screen. In both cases the programs are hung and appear like they are waiting for or searching for some kind of file or command. I was thinking he has RAID 0, is this the problem. Is there some kind of special way you have to install software on a laptop configured with RAID 0. I am going to try and install another program on here one with only 1 disk see if I can get that to run. Little help please.

Thanks Ken

[mainiac]

Don't know if this would really help, but make sure that you are installing the game on the master hard drive and not one of the slave hard drives. Good Luck.

[pam123]

That laptop is powerful enough to run it.
You can use Windows Explorer to copy the game to a folder on the hard drive and try installing it from there.

Also, though you shouldn't have to do it with a brand new laptop, make sure your friends software, the DX and the installer and so on is up to date and that you're using the admin account.

RAID 0 turns separate drives into one drive.
There is no slave.