For some reason the disc wont load, and i cant get it to register its in the drive, other discs work but not skyrim. I had this problem before with a disc where apparently the info wasnt burned quite right in the factory, anyone know if theres a way to fix this

Unfortunately I am experiencing the same thing. I can get to the part where I input the product code and after that is says, "Seam cannot install"


Try disconnecting all of your firewalls/virus protection...its working for me now.

I cant even get to the setup screen, its saying the disc drive is empty

Edit4:
I'm now manually copying the disc contents across the network drive, which is going WAY faster than Steam was using the network. I will then map the folder to a drive letter, and then try to install. Yay for disk fragmentation!!!

If this still takes three hours to install from the local hard drive...

Edit2:
If you have multiple computers on a network, there's a workaround to this. Share a DVD drive on another computer, one that can read the Skyrim disc. Right click the share on the computer you want to install on, and choose to map it to a drive letter. Then do

steam -install z: (or whatever letter you chose)

This is working for me. It's cumbersome and I wasted twenty minutes doing it, but it worked.

Edit3:
What? It says it's going to take THREE HOURS to install? That doesn't make sense. I know 100 megabit ethernet is not that slow. I wonder if the other drive is having issues reading the disc too but can still read it slowly.

Same thing, either they released a bunch of corrupt discs or they tried some lame anti-piracy thing (which wouldn't make sense since it's Steam anyway) that causes it to not read.

I ordered two copies, one as a gift, and BOTH discs cannot be read. I'll try another computer. Ridiculous...

Edit:
It works in another drive in another computer. I'm going to try installing over a network share. They did something non-standard with the disc it seems. This computer cannot read EITHER disc with:
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H40N

An hour later after copying the files from the disc over a network and mapping the folder to a drive letter and telling steam to install there (after manually deleting the Skyrim files in the Steam program by choosing to uninstall Skyrim... since it was part way installed from the other attempt and it would freeze forever on verifying Steam files until I hit cancel) it's finally installing at a high speed.