BATTLEFIELD 2142 BIG PROBLEMS need help please

[Buck]

This is my 1st post, i hope sombody can help me.
Ive been playing Battlefield 2142 now since it came out 1st class game by the way, anyway something came on my screen the other day wanting me to write files to disc, it was files & folders from the game i just closed it down and ever since then when ive tried to play the game all i was getting was audio & the options page where you pick your weapons, and the mouse would not work every time i loaded the game it did this and on every server i went on.
So i thought i would uninstall the game & reinstall it as you do, but no it was going on about it could not uninstall because it could not determine the path? what ever that means as i am a noob when it comes to this.
so ive went and deleted all the files that i could find for battlefield 2142, then went back into add/remove progs and most of the prog was gone leaving only 10.38mb, and i managed to delete that, ssssssssssssooooooooo, now i cant find any trace of it on my P.C.
But now the game will not load in when i try to reinstall the disk all i get is  readme/exit/start BF2142/advanced/EAinfo. but the game will not load in putting the curser over them nothing happens aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh

What do i do HELP HELP   

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Welcome to CH.

What Windows Version is this?

When you put the disc in, go to My Computer and Right Click the CD Drive (with the disc in it)
Go to Explore.
This will bring you into the disc. Find a file called 'setup.exe' or something similar.

Try that and post back.

[Buck]

Hi there i tried the set up exe as you suggested but no joy.
this message came up-- THE CURRENT VERSION OF THE APPLICATION COULD NOT BE DETERMINED, THE SETUP WILL NOW TERMINATE.  so i still cant install the game. frell &frack it.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Is there a file called Autorun.exe? If not, try Autorun.inf

What Windows Version is this?

[Buck]

i will give it a try. its windows xp

[Buck]

nope no good the hard drive whirrs & groans but thats it. bugger

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

nope no good the hard drive whirrs & groans but thats it. bugger

Wait, do you mean CD Drive or the actual Hard Drive? (I think it's the CD Drive)

Is this an original Battlefield CD, not a copy? What about Windows? Are they both genuine?

[Buck]

yeah sorry cd drive,and yes genuine game not a copy it keeps coming up, The current version of the application could not be determined, the set up will now terminate.
like i said i have deleted all the files i could find on battlefild 2142 but there must be something stopping me from reinstalling the game as the above message keeps coming up ?
sorry for the hassle but i love my gaming and now i am going cold turkey for a battlefield fix lol

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

When you install a game, you cannot simply remove all the program files. Even though you think you have removed all files from the game, you still have the registry. From the System Registry's point of view, the game is still installed.

In fact, this just gave me an idea.

Download and run CCleaner.
In the Registry section in CCleaner, Click Scan for Issues a few times and then Fix Selected Issues.
Repeat this one or two times.
CCleaner will prompt you to back up the registry. I suggest you do.

[Buck]

ive tried that a couple of times i will do it again as ive just downloaded the apdated version of ccleaner will get back here in a couple of minutes

[Buck]

Still no joy that terminate message keeps coming up.
i think i am doomed

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Hmmmmm......ok lets get back to the root of the problem.

anyway something came on my screen the other day wanting me to write files to disc

Any idea what this was? Can you give us more information on this?

[Buck]

yeah it was jusy like when i went into the disc to explore it, it was the same think but it wanted me to write to a disc ??  so i just went and shut it down ie with the x , if that makes sense

[Buck]

i have to go just now but i will be back in a couple of hours many thanks for your help so far well appreciated

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

All right.

The last thing I can suggest is a System Restore to a few days before this happened.
If that doesn't do anything, maybe a System Restore to a few days before you install the game.