Red Alert 3 Installation Problem

I've just purchased Red Alert 3 but to my dismay the drive seems to fail to read the CD. It loads a little and then nothing happens. It just won't let me install the game. I've gone into my computer and tried to explore the drive etc but to no avail.

The drive will read all my other games but not Red Alert 3. I'm really confused and it's driving me nuts at the moment because I can't play the damn thing. 

 Can anyone help?

Well, I tried it on my brothers computer and it worked fine. It really is a strange problem and I can't figure out what it is which is doing my head in.

 Can anyone suggest anything? I'm beginning to think something might be wrong with the drive. It's an HP dvd840. Would it help if I downloaded new firmware/drivers for it? Anyone got similar problems?

When I go to run D:/ it asks me to insert a disk into the drive :?

I cant install it either! How annoying... I've just waisted £40 on this game.

The following is the error message I get on install:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/arc200uk/wontinstall.jpg

It says that there is an error reading from the file Mapsmultiplayer.big. and its asking me to verify that it exists and that the system can access it...

Does anybody have any as to what's going on here? My PC specs are as follows:

Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit
AMD Athlon 3500+ 2.7Ghz
2GB 800Mhz DDR2 RAM
ATI Radeon 3600 HD

I get as far as the downloading process but it makes now progress at all...unless the game takes over 5 hours to load!

dual-core t2390 1.86GHz

2GB Memory

Windows vista home premium

Make sure you install the RA3 patches, and if that does help, check out the official forums for real solutions...

Anybody got a solution for this installation thing yet- ive had the game 2 days now and every time i install it hangs at 'copying files'.. - i think it might be related to the rest of the problems on the thread (checked files that did install.. it hang with the same files as metion by the others) - other than the 32bit Vista, i got a pretty intense rig that really shouldnt have any problem with anything on the market-

Ive got a 360 i got red alert 3 on it i played a skirmish saved it loaded it played it in 5seconds i had an error message.

looks at date 2008. 8&%error%¤ error. FAILS TO COMPUTE

you can legally download it of a torrent site or engine and install it that way with you cd key and just delete the torrent when its installed thats what i had to do cause it kept hangin on install in the disk drive

I used to get similar messages with older games when I first installed Win 7. After 2-3 days, Windows Update installed some updates that automatically fixed the problem.

I don't have RA3 now. But, I had it running on 32-bit Vista Home Basic SP2 for a while. Is Vista updated to the most recent version?

How did this age old thread get picked up?