Please insert disk ... Visual Studio .NET 2003

[Kenneth Evans]

Visual Studio .NET 2003 new installation on XP
Professional:

I am installing from a directory made according to the
directions in the readme. It does part 1 OK. It gets to
vdt70vcs.dll in part 2. and asks to "Please insert the
disk: Visual Studio Professional 2000 - English Disk 1."
Note: It is not using disks in the first place.

This also happened with the Microsoft CDs for the
Academic Edition (We have licenses for both.) It
prompted for the disk when the (Academic) Disk 1 was
already in the drive. I was using disks that time.

I have cleaned out my TEMP directory.

I have uninstalled the Prerequisites that appeared in
Add/Remove Programs.

The setup and Setup/setup.stb were modified correctly.

The setup has working on other machines. (So I am told
by our IIS department.)

I find this problem occurring for other programs like
Office in the Knowledge Base. None of the fixes (make
TEMP be a non-removable drive, uninstall, etc.) apply
here.

I cannot install it until this problem is fixed. I
believe the installation directory is probably all
right. Something is not set correctly on the computer.

Thanks,

-Ken

[Tim Macaulay[MS]]

Hi Kenneth,

Are all of the files in one directory on the drive or is there a directory
for each CD?

Also, can you forward the verbose log found in the %Temp% folder.
(filename: vsmsilog*.txt where the * represents four random characters).


Tim Macaulay
Microsoft Corp.
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[Kenneth Evans]

Thank you for the reply. I didn't see any error in the
log file, probably because it was user aborted.

I don't know what the problem with the Academic Edition
disks was, but the problem with the directory install for
the professional edition is that I copied it to a DVD and
ran it from there. (Because the install is too long to do
over the internet, even with broadband.) When I copied
the DVD to the hard drive, it worked with no insert-disk
prompts. (This after much other trial-and-error that did
not work.)

So, apparently setup does this prompt if it is on a
removable drive. Since there is a setup.ini file that
states where the files are (correctly modified according
to the instructions in the README), it shouldn't do this
in this case.

Moreover, if there were a browse button, you could recover
even if it did do this. I consider this a bug in the
setup.

I see this same problem (continually prompting for a disk
with no way to get out of it) with Windows Installer
throughout the Knowledge Base. It needs a browse button
when prompting for a disk.

[Tim Macaulay[MS]]

Hi Kenneth,

I agree that a browse button needs to be displayed on the dialog box that
is prompting for the other CD. Many times, the reason it prompts is
because it is looking for a specific volume label and is not finding it.
This is why we should copy everything into a single directory without
having a directory for each CD. We should not have to modify the INI or
STB file in this case and should be able to proceed without issues.

If you run into more issues, I would recommend contacting Microsoft Product
Support @ 800-936-5800.

Cheers,
Tim Macaulay
Microsoft Corp.
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[Bill Soper ()]

did you find a solution to your problem? i am experiencing the same

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[Tim Macaulay[MS]]

Hi Bill,

Have you tried copying the cds into a single directory without have a
directory for each cd and then executing the install from the hard drive.

Many times we see the error because of incorrect volume label. We can
normally detect this through the verbose log by looking for "Source is
incorrect" or "Return Value 3".

The verbose log is located in the %temp% directory, and you can get through
by clicking the Start button and then clicking on Run and typing %temp% and
clicking ok.

Cheers,
Tim Macaulay
Microsoft Corp.
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