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RCT3 Can't Install

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Have RCT3 Platinum, transferred from original disk (which was getting flakey) to an external HD;  have installed from this to a Vista desktop, a Win7 laptop, and a Win7 desktop over the years with no problems.  Recently had my primary SSD die, and RCT3, which was on a different drive altogether, disappeared!  (All the files in My Documents were fine.)

Tried to reinstall from that external drive only to repeatedly get a popup window with a lengthy error message about

'error "-5005 : 0x8002802b" occurred while running setup'

there's many more lines referencing "cpp";  this appears as soon as the progress bar completes on the initial popup;  I have a choice to continue or cancel, doesn't matter what I choose, everything disappears and I'm back at the desktop.

UAC is disabled so everything runs as admin;  I tried XP and Vista compatibility;  I tried limiting the exe to a single core.  I moved all the RCT files from My Documents to a holding folder.  Nothing helps.

I have acquired another copy of RCT3 from an "alternate source" and it installed fine, didn't even need my NoCD exe.  Returned the game files to My Documents and all is well (except for a dozen or so parks lost to the dead SSD;  I plugged in the old HD, so the system has returned to 18 months ago).  But I'm curious as to what is preventing my first copy from installing.
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