Its a good possibility that you might be correct. With that in consideration I just bought the game 2nd hand for under 13 bucks.

I take that you are not using this site version to play the game then.

Did you use DOSBox to install the game?

No I used the command prompt that xp has to install the game.

Also I want to compare iso sizes the Iso I have is 303mb and I want an original copy of the game so I can make the a new iso and see how big that one is. To see if thats Ripped copy of the game or not.

Try installing it under DOSBox. DOS things tend to work much better under DOSBox than XP (or, God forbid, Vista). :)

If you have the original CD then I strongly suggest that you simply use DOSBox, mount your D: drive like a normal CDrom drive and then install the game.

If you simply "purchased" a ripped version... Then I don't really need to search further to understand why it doesn't work. I am not sure I understand you fully anyways. Do you actually have an original CD?

And then keep using DOSBox to play the game once it's installed, if possible.

No I dont have an original cd I just download the iso one member of the site was able to make for me. Im going to have an original cd soon though I just bought one. I should have it next week some time.

Installing directly from the original CD is your sure bet then! :)

Ya Or maybe an Iso of the original cd.

Well here is something interesting. I installed the Windows version under windows 3.11 under dosbox and that worked no error msg.

Do you happen to have more files installed this way?

I am only half surprised. Old games who have both DOS and Win install options usually have different install files.