Problems with installation of Visual Studio Enterprise on WinXP (SP2 and SP3)

Hello All,

I'm facing a very strange and frustrating problem with Visual Studio Enterprise installation on my Windows XP SP2 and SP3 machines. I never faced this problem before and have no clue whatsoever why this is happening!

When I insert Disk 1 of installer and proceed with installation, the setup goes well till "Setup is searching for installed components". At this stage, the borderless modal window showing this message flashes once and nothing happens thereafter. The installer stops responding and soon I see "(Not Responding)" in the title bar of installation window.

It's a fresh installation of Windows XP since I had to format my Hard Drive; so there is no question of having any other Visual Studio installed on my machine. I've no clue whatsoever why this is happening and no good help is there online to resolve this issue. Just for your information, no other Microsoft Visual Programming language is installed on this machine ... no .Net or Framework or nothing else.

I badly need your help to resolve this issue as I need to make it to work at earliest. Please share your thoughts on this issue so then I can get it to work!

Eagerly waiting for your reply ...

Best Regards,

Ruturaaj.

Moved To General Developer

Are these factory disks you are using to do your install?

Have you successfully used these disks for installing Visual Studio on other machines?

yeah! same CDs. I also have a backup of it as ISO. I tried with these ISOs, too, but no luck.

can someone tell me what happens when installer does not find any previous installed components? Which folder or file on CD it really looks for? Is there anything that it looks for on my HDD?

Hey,

The only thing that I can think it that there is some dependency in the installer and for some reason it can't continue, but it isn't giving a very descriptive error message.

Can you make sure that you have all the most recent updates on your machine, i.e. go to Microsoft update and install all the updates, and then try again.

Gary

I am sorry that you are having issues with installing Visual Studio. Please let me help you by looking at your logs and providing you with some information about what is happened and perhaps some idea of what to do next.

Please collect your logs and either email them to me or put them on a share that I can see and send me a link. To collect your installation logs follow the steps on heaths' blog.

Then email them to aaronru(a)microsoft.com. I will review them and provide some ideas for what to do to get around this issue.