Reinstalling after a hard drive loss

[Moggy 0]

Hello all, my games drive crashed recently and I have had to purchase another hard drive to replace it. I decided to reinstall my disk copies of ArmA II, Op. Arrowhead and my digital copy of BAF from Sprocket. After running the setup, it recognised I was re-installing the game. I was asked for my serial code which I entered successfully. I updated ArmA II to 1.07 and then installed OA and finally BAF before updating to the current 1.11 patch. ArmA II runs normally from the desktop shortcut but I cannot run OA or BAF without getting a securom error stating it has detected a hardware change and it requires an unlock code. I've downloaded the securom program from their website but get the same thing.

Is it worth completely uninstalling the programs and starting over or should I try contacting BIS for the unlock code?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[W0lle 1052]

I think Securom won't be that easy to bypass. But try this:

Uninstall all the games and then run a registry cleaner, like CCleaner.

Then install ArmA2 and run it once.

Then install OA into the same folder as ArmA2, run it once again.

Install the DLCs and one more run.

Finally install the v1.60 patch which updates all products to their latest versions.

[Moggy 0]

Thanks for the reply W0lle. The 1 thing I didn't do was run the game after I installed Op Arrowhead and before installing the BAF pack. I'll uninstall the game and reinstall as per your instructions.

1 thing though, do I need to install any patches between the ArmA II and Op Arrowhead installs, or can I just Op Arrowhead directly over ArmA II?

[W0lle 1052]

1 thing though, do I need to install any patches between the ArmA II and Op Arrowhead installs, or can I just Op Arrowhead directly over ArmA II?

Nope. Just install OA over A2.

[Moggy 0]

I've uninstalled all the ArmA II components and ran ccleaner, rebooted etc. Unfortunately when I insert the OA dvd (after the ArmA II install), it states that "ARMA 2 Operation Arrowhead already installed. Would you like to reinstall the game?". After installation, I still get the securom popup. It seems to be a registry error somewhere I think.

[Moggy 0]

Any idea about what my next port of call should be? Should I fire off an email to BIS and see if they have any ideas?

I'd really like to get ArmA II back up and running soon.

[Placebo 29]

You need to delete all Bohemia/Arma entries in your registry

[Moggy 0]

Hi Placebo, thanks for taking the time to try and help me. I've ran regedit and deleted all the relevant entries concerning ArmA II and Op Arrowhead. I'm no longer getting the "ARMA 2 Operation Arrowhead already installed. Would you like to reinstall the game?" but the securom problem persists (after game launch attempt) where it states "An error occured while verifying your product license. The hardware of your system could not be indentified. A possible reason for this is that parts of your hardware were changed. Please activate your software again."

It's asking me to contact my software vendor to manually retrieve the unlock code.

What should be my next course of action, an email to securom or maybe BIS?

Edited July 18, 2012 by Moggy

[Moggy 0]

Problem solved, I just had to press back on the securom screen and re-enter my dvd code. Weird thing is, the securom program already had my dvd code as part of the manual activation feature.

Oh well, I'm a happy camper once again.

Thanks for your help guys.

[Placebo 29]

Glad it's sorted, now don't break it again you hear? ;)