Trouble Re-Installing Visual Studios .NET after HDD Crash 1

[jimandbobbi]

Someone please help me here...

I have an HP Pavilion xt963 with a celeron 1.2gHz, 512MB RAM, and 2 HDD's (40 gig - primary and 30 gig - secondary). I had a different secondary HDD (40 gig) until a couple of weeks ago when it decided to shoot craps on me.

I do alot of stuff with my computer so I have alot of programs on it. I had Visual Studios 6.0 pro AND Visual Studios .NET pro installed and running at the same time but on different HDD's.

After my other secondary HDD crashed on me, I have been trying to get my set-up back to the way it was with a new HDD. I was able to get the VS 6.0 version to install without any problems. But, I keep getting an error message with VS .NET. It says that a failed installation has been detected and that I need to uninstall, then retry installing. I press OK and it automatically goes through the process of uninstalling and giving me a report that it was uninstalled successfully.

But, when I retry installing it does nothing but go through the same process. Its like some kind of endless loop.

Before I installed the new HDD, I went through the Add/Remove Programs list and removed everything that I had installed on the defunct HDD. I have had some problems with getting things removed from the list, it tells me that it cannot find the uninstall information and cannot continue. For the most part, re-installing the software takes care of it. All except for VS .NET.

Does anybody have any ideas???

I really don't want to have to try to back up everything I need to save and do a complete system restore, I am way too busy and don't have time to redo everything I need to do my work with.

I appreciate any thoughts and advice you can give.

Thanks

Jim

"Life's too short to dance with ugly people!"

 

[intrex]

Just to clarify,

You used to have vs.net on a harddrive that was a different partition from your OS partition. That hard drive died (while vs.net was still installed on it) so now you are trying to install vs.net on the new hard drive and having problems.

You probably need to go pokeing around the registry. This is kind of dangerous, so back up your registry first. Once you have your registry backed up I would search for all keys that have anything to do with vs.net and erase them. That will probably fix the problem, but it could make your system unusable if you erase something that windows needs to run. You might be able to look on microsofts site and find all the registry keys associated with vs.net and what they are each used for.

As I said again, try this at your own risk as a last resort method. This will probably fix your problem, but if you erase the wrong keys it may leave your system unusable (even with registry backup!).

 

[jimandbobbi]

Thanks for pointing me to Microsoft to look for Registry Keys. Even though I had been there to try to find an answer prior to me making this post, I must not have put in the right keywords to find the answer.

Anyway, I did find the answer, and if anybody else has this problem this is what you need to do. It worked perfectly for me.

1. On the Start menu, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.

2. Locate the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Integration

The number keys you see are SKUs. For each SKU, do the
following:

3. Click the SKU. In the right pane, locate the entry for Suitename, then note the Value Data section of this window.

4. If the entry does not pertain to Visual Studio .NET, click the next SKU in the list.

5. Delete only the SKUs that contain information about Visual Studio .NET in the Value Data section.

6. To delete the SKU, follow these steps:
a. Click the SKU number, and then press DELETE.
b. Confirm that you want to delete the key.
c. Close the registry editor, and then restart the computer.

7. Try the installation again.



here is the link to Microsoft to read about this procedure:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318913&Product=vsnet

Thanks alot and I hope this helps someone in the future.

Jim Hallock

"Life's too short to dance with ugly people!"