figured this out; folders were encrypted in windows.
Ran the installer and got this error
struct
Detail [empty string]
Message The specified directory attribute C:\ColdFusion9\wwwroot\/
farcry/projects/ cannot be renamed to newdirectory C:
\ColdFusion9\wwwroot\farcry\projects\bkp--2010-08-16-10-55-56.
StackTrace coldfusion.tagext.io.FileUtils$DirectoryCannotBeRenamed:
The specified directory attribute C:\ColdFusion9\wwwroot\/farcry/
projects/ cannot be renamed to newdirectory C:\ColdFusion9\wwwroot
\farcry\projects\bkp--2010-08-16-10-55-56. at
coldfusion.tagext.io.FileUtils.renameDirectory(FileUtils.java:290) at
coldfusion.tagext.io.DirectoryTag.doStartTag(DirectoryTag.java:282) at
cfinstall2ecfc1946766834$funcCOPYFULLDIRECTORY.runFunction(C:
\ColdFusion9\wwwroot\farcry\core\webtop\install\components\install.cfc:
104) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:472) at
coldfusion.filter.SilentFilter.invoke(SilentFilter.java:47) at
coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod$ReturnTypeFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:
405) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod
$ArgumentCollectionFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:368) at
coldfusion.filter.FunctionAccessFilter.invoke(FunctionAccessFilter.java:
55) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.runFilterChain(UDFMethod.java:321)
at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:517) at
coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invokeUDF(CfJspPage.java:2547) at
cfinstall2ecfc1946766834$funcINSTALLINTERNAL.runFunction(C:
\ColdFusion9\wwwroot\farcry\core\webtop\install\components\install.cfc:
322) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:472) at
coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod$ReturnTypeFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:
405) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod
$ArgumentCollectionFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:368) at
coldfusion.filter.FunctionAccessFilter.invoke(FunctionAccessFilter.java:
55) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.runFilterChain(UDFMethod.java:321)
at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:517) at
coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invokeUDF(CfJspPage.java:2547) at
cfinstall2ecfc1946766834$funcINSTALL.runFunction(C:\ColdFusion9