After the Maintenance Unable to Play?

Hello,
I can't find the technical issues thread anymore so I am asking here.
After the maintenance downtime yesterday, when I tried to log in the
NCSoft Launcher failed and indicated that I was missing a file. I tried
32 times(seriously) to Repair/patch my game. Then I uninstalled it in an
attempt to Reinstall the game fresh. The repairing and the reinstalling both
lead to the same error over and over, Error Code: 58 and 57, continuously.
I tried Installing from the Going Rogue DVD and It won't launch the game.
When I click on the NCSoft Launcher it wants to Install the game still even
though Going Rogue is in the folder it wants to install to. The Install fails
after it downloads the first 768 MB. It goes to a 4300 MB file and it won't
continue after the first section of 1/120 files. It just fails time after time.

Previously, when playing this game it would crash a lot after they stopped
supporting it starting in September. I would constantly have to Repair it and
it would sometimes repair sometimes not, always with an Error 58 + 57.
But, if I kept trying to Repair it. Eventually it would go through and work.
It required multiple-Repair attempts to make it go through. Now, it just
won't get past the first of 1/120 files on the 4Gig+ part of the download.

Losing this game was going to hurt 21 days from now. Losing it today is
unbearable. I really wanted to be there until the end, but, this looks like
it is the end for me. I don't have any hope that this can be repaired.
I use WinXp and my system is just old. I currently can't move ahead in
tech my financial situation won't allow it.

Ooh. This sounds like it might be your hard drive.

Back up everything you can off that drive.

My Computer
Right-click on the drive in question
Select Properties from the menu
Tools Tab
Error Checking

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Dear Hyperstrike,

Thank you for your response. I spent yesterday doing your suggested
repair attempts. I was able to successfully install the game after. Though,
at this time my game still glitches and crashes. Also, some of the powers
and costume sets I bought from Paragon Points show as Locked still, even
though I have made characters with those powers and costume parts.

My hard drive is most likely going bad. I have another HD on my system
though. It is a TB HD from Western Digital. I am looking into getting
Windows 7 OS DVD. My worry is: will installing a new OS onto that
spare drive require wiping the drive clean first? If so, can it be avoided
with partitioning?

My system is a 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 with 3 Gig Ram(XP only recognizes 2),
32 bit. Would Win7 operate well enough to game under those restrictions?
I have a nVidia 9600 graphics card.

Everything was working fine until my Firefox updated to v. 16.1(or so).
FF16.1 had a security hole in it that caused my McAfee to have a kiniption
fit. I had to reformat my drive in order to escape the damage that
McAfee caused to my system. The first thing McAfee did was erase all my
System Restore Points. Not, delete the scripts that would allow me
to get to them, but actually erase them from the system.

I actually thought I got virused, but, during my 4th formatting of my drive
McAfee left a signature behind 'mscjsres.dll' finally identifying itself as
the culprit behind the terrible damages to my system. I looked up the
effects and fixes for this...McAfee and I are no longer friends.

Anyway, damage has been done to my system HD and I do have the
other HD on the system. But my TB HD has 200Gig of files on it. Mostly,
City of Heroes Screeniez . If I have to wipe that drive to get an
operating system on it, I don't think I could do that. I would need to
purchase another HD and have that be my OS HD I think.

Again, thank you Hyperstrike for helping myself and all the others
that play this wonderful game with your computer expertise. You
helped make this community as awesome as it is.

Sincerely,
redtornado
aka@Sheyherazad(global)