Error 1901

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Evgeny

Hi!

I'm trying to install MSAS 1.0.509 on MS Windows 2000
Proffesional. Every time I start the installation I
receive the error message:

Error1901.Error attemting to read from the source
installation database: c:\winnt\installer\ef4e7.msi

And every time the name of the file is different:
ef4e7.msi, ef4ea.msi, ef4ed.msi.
It happens on different machines with the same OS listed
above.

Is there any solution for my problem? I suppose it's
because of system path (c:\winnt) but not sure.

Thank you in advance,
Evgeny
 
I can't find much useful about this reference. One reference indicated a
difficulty reading the CD which I'm having trouble thinking about in terms
of a downloaded installation.

Trying a new download would be one thing to try.

Your system path is typical for a Windows 2000 machine, or an XP upgrade
over Windows 2000--that shouldn't be an issue at all--I've done many
installs on such machines.
 
fresh downloaded installation works without any problems!
it's really strange cause "bad" version installs on
Windows XP computer with positive result!

anyway thank you for so useful advise!

cheers,
Evgeny
 
I'm glad it worked--can you try a file compare between the two downloads, if
you have both around?

rename each of them to a short (8.3) name which you can keep straight which
is which, and place them both in the same folder.

Go to a command prompt in that folder and do:

fc file1 file2

and see whether FileCompare finds any differences between the two files.
(I'm assuming that they are both the same build--the post February 16th .509
build)

If it does, don't post the differences--but that would seem to imply
corruption of some kind.

If there is no difference, perhaps simply attempting the install another
time was the charm.
 
yes, there is a lot of differences between these files, so
the problem is solved!

thanx again!
 
Interesting--it'd be good to know what caused the corruption--perhaps
there's a virus or trojan still active.
 
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