Thanks guys! You're awesome! Here are the answers to some of the questions/comments (to the best of my knowledge anyway!):
Did you totally uninstall the old version before you tried to load the new one you bought? If so, you might try running a cd cleaner through the drive....if that doesnt work, it might well be that your drive is going out.
I uninstalled by using the game's own uninstall option, and reinstalled the same way. Yep, I did use a cd cleaner in the drive.
When it says it isn't there .... is it saying it can't find it on the CD, or the game files on your hard drive? If it happens on both an old and new CD .... perhaps it isn't the CD drive .... possibly some leftover bad/corrupt files from the previous installation that were never removed ....?
Do any other discs do this on your PC? Does the game install and play on another PC from the same CD's?
It says it can't find the CD itself, and yes, it happens the same way with both the Age of Empire CD's and the expansion pack CD for the same game. I'm wondering about bad/corrupt files too... but wouldn't/shouldn't the uninstall and reinstall have corrected that? The only other game I have here (Rise of Nations) works just fine, and the Age of Empires CD works okay on the computer I have at work. (I have a nice boss!)
CD drives are cheap. A desktop DVD-RW should run you $50 or so. Compare that to the new copy of the game.
Heh, the game was lots cheaper, because it's old. I'm not unwilling to replace the drive, but I'd really like to be moderately sure that the drive is the problem.
Can you Explore the Age of Empires II disk? - Yes
Is it on a CD or a DVD? - Uhm... I'd guess CD. It's an older game.
Can you play DVD movies okay? - Yes.
Are you having trouble with any other disks? - No.
Have you tried installing the latest version of DirectX? - I don't think so. I'll try that. (But why would that matter when the game played fine before?)
Maybe turning Off DMA for the CD-ROM or DVD Drive might help. - huh?
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