Need help installing WindRiver

[DjScribbles]

I would suspect the disc, or the optical drive[s] (or possibly a combination of the two). I assume you've checked the disk for visible defects (cracks, scratches, etc)

If the disk is semi-broken and/or your drive isn't as 'sharp' as it used to be it's possible that it can work ok for a while before crashing and burning.

One thing you could do to test this is to try copying the contents of the disk onto the hard-drive (rather than installing). You won't be able to use windriver obviously, but you can test how the drive performs under heavy use. If the file transfer crashes out too, you know you've got a problem. If it does work, get a decent size thumb drive, rip an iso of the cd onto the thumb drive (I don't know what programs are good for this anymore) and use a iso mounting tool (like daemon tools) to try installing it from the iso.

[Dusk Star]

You don't even need to move it to a thumb drive, Daemon tools will let you mount an iso file as if it were burned to disk. And you can use it to make an iso from the windriver disks to begin with.

[DjScribbles]

The thumbdrive would be to make sure you don't run the HDD out of disk space, unless I'm misunderstanding you.

[Dusk Star]

I was assuming that his laptop (not the classmate) would have enough free space to hold the 4gb worth of .iso files. If you don't have the space, using a flash drive is probably the best idea though.

[Wingy]

@DJScribbles

Yeah, I recently looked at the disk again a bit more meticulously and it looks like there are actually scuffs/bubble-looking things in a small part of the disk. I'm guessing the disk was manufactured faulty which lead to certain parts being unable to be read. I have made a copy of the disk on the desktop, and through that process I've discovered the exact files that don't work. In the D:\images\CDR-R113198.1-1-00 and D:\images\CDR-R113200.1-1-00 folders on the CD, the output file is unable to be accessed normally. So, it must have just been a disk error. I believe Dusk Star might be able to load those files so I can have them by tonight, but if not I'm headed to a nearby school to use their disk.

I'll edit this again to confirm that that fixed the problem afterwards. Also, so people understand we -did- get a better laptop for my robotics team, I picked up this one yesterday: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba+...lite&cp=1&lp=1
Ironically thanks to this we've finally been able to move past our awfully slow netbook and the classmate, so I guess this was a blessing in disguise. Sigh* if only I didn't have to be a senior now and could stay around to use this baby ._. Thanks again for everyone's help!

Edit: I got access to a CD from team 100 and it works! Thanks for everyone's help.