My Railworks Disk doesn't work

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DanW
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My Railworks Disk doesn't work

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Hi All

I have just got a new computer and want to install railworks. I put the disk in the disk drive and it 'whirs' up but nothing happens. I then go on to My computer and click on the disk drive but it takes about 5 mins to load and at the end it says there is no disk in the drive. Does anyone konw how to fix this?

It is on a Windows 7 O/S

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Re: My Railworks Disk doesn't work

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If you can, try the DVD in another PC just to confirm if it's the DVD that's failed.
Also try another DVD in the drive.
It could be the drive.


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Re: My Railworks Disk doesn't work

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Hi Dan,

Is this a new DVD, or have you had Railworks installed previously on your old computer.

If the latter, then you will be able to log on to Steam and download Railworks to the new PC without use of the DVD at all

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Re: My Railworks Disk doesn't work

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Also, make absolutely sure that it's a DVD drive you're putting it in. If it's only designed for CDs, a DVD will usually behave as you describe.

If the disc really is bad and you have a good Internet connection, it might be easiest to just install the Steam client, log into your Steam account, and download RailWorks from there. They *do* let you do that.
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Re: My Railworks Disk doesn't work

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Cheers all.

I didn't realise i could re download it


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Re: My Railworks Disk doesn't work

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GWSRKID wrote:Cheers all.

I didn't realise i could re download it


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Dan
Yes, you can re download it as many times as you need, to any pc ( or multiple PC's ) but you can only be logged into steam on 1 PC at a time with the same user name.

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i have the same problem and my pc is new ...please help
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