Trouble installing Prepar3D

MooneyBravo · Post by **MooneyBravo** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:55 pm

Next step.

Go to your original product download page.

Each file available for download will have a valid checksum.

Is your checksum correct?

Saul · Post by **Saul** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 1:57 am

The error your getting is due to a corrupted download. You can use a download manager to help complete your download.

I would download the individual files that report errors and then try again.

Martyson · Post by **Martyson** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 6:04 am

Also, have a quick look at his checksum on the downloaded ZIP as a double check.

MooneyBravo · Post by **MooneyBravo** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 1:39 pm

What is checksum?

MooneyBravo · Post by **MooneyBravo** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 1:41 pm

Can you recommend a download manager? I've used IE, Firefox and Opera and Chrome.

Thx

MooneyBravo · Post by **MooneyBravo** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 1:43 pm

yurko · Post by **yurko** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 2:34 pm

Mooney Bravo

Checksum is a procedure for verifying the integrity of the downloaded files. A slick utility for doing this is free at www.winmd5.com. Takes only a few minutes.

Yurko

MooneyBravo · Post by **MooneyBravo** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:10 am

Ok Thanks I will check it out

MooneyBravo · Post by **MooneyBravo** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:22 am

Ok I tried WinMD5

Selected the download inside of WinZip; Prepar3D_v2_Academic

Current file MD5 checksum value says 48ebbee3f2384a817f539ee2c8eb96fe

??

Martyson · Post by **Martyson** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:32 am

Next step.

Go to your original product download page.

Each file available for download will have a valid checksum.

Is your checksum correct?

MooneyBravo · Post by **MooneyBravo** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:00 pm

Yes

I also entered it into the optional space in MD5 to verify

Matched

MooneyBravo · Post by **MooneyBravo** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:06 pm

The error message during installation says data1.cab missing yet they are both present. I tried downloading it but I'm not sure where I would place it. The file I have is compiled of many files. I have studies and successfully tinkered with some cfg and reg files but I am by no means a tech.

Martyson · Post by **Martyson** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:36 pm

Try:

Delete the dataCab1 file that is part of the un-zipped set of files (or move dataCab1 file to another location).

Copy your newly downloaded datacab1 back into the set .. so you now have a full set again.

I did the patch so I cannot do a test first.

Which version of Windows do you have?

Is your downloaded ZIP in a protected Windows folder?

MooneyBravo · Post by **MooneyBravo** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 6:24 pm

I will try the above

I have Win7 64bit

Thank you

MooneyBravo · Post by **MooneyBravo** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 1:44 pm

WinZip won't allow me to move or delete the original data1.cab so I can replace it with the new. It says that it requires an unsupported compression scheme.