

If that still doesn't work, then as a last resort you can copy and paste the Data Files folders from the Tribunal and Bloodmoon CDs to the installed Morrowind folder on your hard drive.

Then repeat this process with the Bloodmoon CD. Then disconnect from the internet, disable any anti-virus, anti-spyware, or firewall software you're using and double-click the file Setup.exe on the Tribunal CD to reinstall Tribunal. If that still doesn't help, then try opening the Tribunal CD in Explorer, right-click Setup.exe, and choose the Run as Administrator option. Also, while you're there, right-click your Morrowind.ini file, look at its properties, and make sure that it is NOT read only. It should look like this: Archive 0=Tribunal.bsa Archive 1=Bloodmoon.bsa If either of these lines are missing, then copy and paste them into your Morrowind.ini file and save it. If that still doesn't work, then open your Morrowind.ini file (located right in the installed Morrowind folder (you may have to click the "Compatibility Files" tab in the top-right corner to see this file)) and find the Archives section. If that fails, then return to the Morrowind.exe properties and, in addition to the previous, try running it in Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode. After that, you can try right-clicking the Morrowind.exe file in the installed Morrowind folder and choosing the Run as Administrator option, then try playing. I recommend you paste your entire Morrowind, or Bethesda Softworks, folder to your root C:\ directory - so its install path is, for example, C:\Morrowind.

I recommend simply moving the whole Morrowind (or Bethesda Softworks) folder to a new location on your hard drive because the default install location (C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Morrowind) has so many permission restrictions (and other weird things of different kinds that nobody really understands) that it's just a bad place to run Morrowind from. ) First, I recommend you try the simplest solution, which also happens to be the one that seems to work for most everybody. Unfortunately, there is no one solution to it that works for everybody. Error message - "Failed to load snowflake: Meshes\BM_Snow01.nif" This is a very common error message to get after installing the Bloodmoon expansion. Found this on a forum post somewhere about it, apparently it's a common issue.
