It's possible you might have a bad floppy and the drive can't read it when it gets to that part.

Nah like I say, the disk can all be read 100%, it's the uncompressing that fails and thats done after all the files have been copied to the HDD.

EDIT: right found the problem, I scandisk'd them all and the last one has several existing bad sectors, i.e someone has previously tried to repair the disk and obviously failed. I thought getting 9 healthy 3.5" disks from eBay was too good to be true, and it was 🙁

Wouldn't anyone here be kind enough to send me an image of the 9th disk? It's a complete big box set in excellent condition, so I'd love to save it.

Thankyou to Aideka and the Great Hierophant; both were kind enough to provide me with the files I needed.

Doesn't this constitute as pirating? Should we ban those who provided him with the files? and possible the poster?

dosquest wrote:

Doesn't this constitute as pirating? Should we ban those who provided him with the files? and possible the poster?

Are you trolling or for real?

dosquest wrote:

Doesn't this constitute as pirating? Should we ban those who provided him with the files? and possible the poster?

No, because he owns a legally obtained copy of the game which gives me him the legal right to play it. If he downloaded it from a warez site or from a torrent and got a corrupted file and someone gave it to him, then that would be piracy.

Holy **** dosquest, you did not actually MEAN what you wrote did you...
Put yourself in his shoes - would you buy another set of disks in questionable condition or just ask for the files you are missing... HE WAS NOT ASKING FOR COMPLETE SET OF IMAGES.

If you are going to help someone out like this, its necessary to give him all your images of the game if the filedates on his disks do not match yours. Like most games from this period, System Shock can only be run from a hard drive and has compressed install files on its floppies, so any differences between the files and the install will fail. My conscience is clear.

I did not think it was such a complex case... But again, no one can be expected to pay several times and still NOT getting the software work. That is just plain unfair. I also bought a few sets of floppies of DOS adventure games - half of them already had to be copied over to new disks and I could only keep the stickers. It does not hurt to make regular backups if one can afford it. It is more the question of time than money...
Bottom line, I would have given him the files as well if I had had them. After all, certain members do not need to be asked to "present a photo of your original disks with these six random items laid across in 5 minutes and you are believed in"...

Hi there, same problem for me. Original 3,5 disk box from eBay, with manual and whole paperwork in pristine cond, bud disk 2 has gone. Of course i have cd copy and that awesome portable project to play on modern pc in high res, but somewhat i want to show my son how it was in my times. So i`ve built 486 with Intel overdrive on 80MHz and now my disk2 is fried. If someone have raws of this, it will be really appreciated. [iam using nice tool named HD Copy to make isos of floppy for archiving purposes, but any image helps]

Put a cd-rom drive in the system.

It doesnt fit that slim desktop case of my rig. Its Siemens Nixdorf SCENIC 4L sx/25 (with Intel overdrive DX80), in pristine cond. Very quiet machine. It has only one 3 1/2 external bay. CD Drive is no problem (to place it externaly), i just want to refresh that floppy nr2 with iso to make them all usable.