Manually Install World of Warcraft

If you are experiencing problems with installing World of Warcraft on your computer, this guide may be able to help you. This guide is useful if your installer suggests that your drivers are corrupted, as well as other similar errors.

Steps

1. Start Windows in Safe Mode.
2. Uninstall World of Warcraft. After completing the uninstallation, open "My Programs" from the "Start Menu" and delete the WoW folder left behind by the uninstallation. If this is your first installation, then skip this step.
3. Create a new folder on your Desktop. You might call it 'wow installer', or something similar. You can do this by right-clicking the desktop, clicking New, and "Folder".
4. Put "Disc 1" of World of Warcraft into your computer. Do not start the installer. Instead, Open "My Computer", right click the CD drive, and click "Explore".
5. Copy and paste the contents of the World of Warcraft CD to the new folder.
   1. Press Template:Key Template:Key to select all of the contents of your World of Warcraft CD.
   2. Press Template:Key Template:Key to copy the contents.
   3. Open your new folder and press Template:Key Template:Key to paste the copied content to your computer.
   4. Close the disk drive window and take out the CD.
6. Copy and paste the 'tome' file from Disc 2 to your computer. Do not copy the entire CD. Instead, select 'tome', copy it, and paste it to your new folder.
7. Repeat the previous step for your remaining CDs. Remove Disc 2 and copy each 'tome' file from each of your other CDs (i.e. Discs 3-5).
8. Open your new folder and run the installer program. The game should install as normal.

Tips

• This procedure also works for any expansion pack.
• Tech Note: World of Warcraft does NOT install to the Windows registry. You can actually copy the entire installed World of Warcraft folder from any location on your hard drive to another location, across a network, or other transfer medium. You can copy it to any operating system, including Windows, Mac, or any flavor of Unix/Linux without reinstalling it again. Great way to avoid having to re patch after install.

Warnings

• If this process does not work, one or more of your drives may actually be corrupted. Consider checking your computer for technical problems and have some maintenance performed.

Things You'll Need

• World of Warcraft installation disk.

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