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[Lev Astov]

I am trying to reinstall Mass Effect 2 and am having this strange problem where the Install Location dialog will not let me click Next, and simply warns "The install folder specified is in or is a folder reserved for special files."  

This occurred after on of my gaming HDDs in the RAID 0 array died and I tried to reinstall on another drive.  Now I can not install the game anywhere; not on C:, F:, S:, or T:. Nor in any subdirectories or variations of the default folder name.

I then tried uninstalling the original version, despite the fact that G:/Games/Mass Effect 2/ (location of the original install) is now simply gone.  Surprisingly, I got no errors during uninstallation, but this still did not help my reinstallation problem at all.

Would any moderators, or BioWare staff please have a look into this? I'm still working to recover and repair my broken game drive (I think it's a single corrupt sector), but short of that, I'm not sure what else will work.

Again, I had the game working flawlessly for a few days, and there were no events in the game pertaining to any of this.  This all was a fairly mechanical failure on my PC's part.  Regardless, here are my specs:

Windows 7 RC1
AMD Phenom II 520 (or something like that)
4GB OCZ ATI Crossfire RAM
Nvidia GTX 260, 216 Core
Asus Crosshair II mobo
and a boatload of various hard drives, in both single and array form, some SSDs

[Lev Astov]

For the record, I resolved this issue. It turns out my Windows /TEMP folder was located on the array that was destroyed, and was thereby inaccessible. Apparently the system uses this for nearly everything, so I was unable to download anything from the internet, or install nearly anything at all.



I changed it by going to Control Panel>System>Advanced System Settings>Environmental Variables (down the bottom), and then setting both TEMP and TMP to a drive that exists.