Install Shield error 5006 when trying to uninstall The Sims 3 base game

[Steve8888Sim]

My C: drive is too full to add anything else to it or Windows might not work.  I have the Sims 3 installed on f: drive which is a partition on a 1.5 Tbyte USB drive that I created for windows to use for games to save space on C:.  When I ran the update for the sims it started writting to C:. I had to use [CTRL][ALT][DEL] to stop it.  Then the game wouldn't run!  I thought I probaley messed up the install so I began uninstalling the game but when I tried to uninstall the base game -after uninstalling the stuff and expansion packs-, I got Install shield error 5006!  How do I fix this?  Maybe edit the registry? When I get this fixed how do I tell the patches to install to F:?

[crinrict · Accepted solution]

Just skip the first part and go to this: Cleaning up Leftover Folders

Or try these instructions: https://help.ea.com/article/manually-uninstalling-the-sims-3

[crinrict]

The patch should now by itself which drive to install to. 

I would manually uninstall everything and clean the registery. Then reinstall.

http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:TS3_Uninstall

[Steve8888Sim]

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@crinrict wrote:

The patch should now by itself which drive to install to. 

I would manually uninstall everything and clean the registery. Then reinstall.

http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:TS3_Uninstall

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I can't uninstall because of the Install Shield error!

[crinrict · Accepted solution]

Just skip the first part and go to this: Cleaning up Leftover Folders

Or try these instructions: https://help.ea.com/article/manually-uninstalling-the-sims-3

[Steve8888Sim]

Thanks my sims thank you for your help. They founded a new religion called crinrict! Lol.

That gives me an idea for a new expansion pack called religion. It would have new proffesions such as Religious Zelot, Priest, Monk ect... Your sims could go to church or a temple.