You haven't said what the brand was. There are a few basic types of launchers too. If your chute has a air or spring launcher it will not have a pilot chute just if stroud a D bag. It is as simple as it seems. First you have to stretch the chords out and un tangle the lines when you have them un tangled I then grab each chord where it is sewn in the chute and pull tight grabing each of the three the same way and pulling them together like you are stacking them they will be folded in half by doing this and all in one hand. I then fold them again and walk to the car with the chute end and the D bag. Then you put the chute in the bag reverse order that you want it to deploy in a S pattern filling the D bag as you go. When you get to the lines you continue to insert them in the bag in an S pattern filling the entire bag side to side. Then you fold the flap on the D bad and load in the Chute bag on the car. If you have a spring launcher you have to coil up the spring and put in the pin to hold it untill you get the bag loaded and pinned. The cable will come from one side of the other and that matters. I use a shoe lace and loop it on the looped string that the cable goes in to hold the chute in the bag. I insert the D bag in the bag that is fixed on the car and string the lace thru each eyelet begining with the opposite the looped one usualy top or bottom if the cable comes from the side. Then I cinch the two leves together and then do the one that the cable is closest to third then the one opposite the cable last. Pull on the shoe lace to align the eyelets then insert the cable to retain then pull out the shoe lace. BAM you have the Stroud chute loaded. It aint rocket science but you need to be comfortable doing this so you use it when you need it. I have to use mine every pass to stop before the fence with my Beretta