Has anyone ever encountered an InstallShield failing. No error, no nothing. The damn Install says...."I'm installing"...then nothing but a cursor and desktop. screw me. This is a FRESHLY installed 2000, and Easy CD Creator 5.0 from Adaptec. Other InstallShield setup.exe's work fine. And this problem setup works in my '98 laptop. Dammit...and to think I reformatted my freaking harddrive to prevent flakiness before install 2000. I don't know what to say. a Setup not firing up???!!!! Help...do I need a patch for 2000, or do I need to stay on hold for another 30 minutes with Adaptec. Hey, clutch, can you give me a quick pole on the front page...hehe.
Do you have any anti-virus software running? The only thing on their site says the following (you may want to do a custom install without the Take Two software unless you really need it, or just install with whatever you absolutely need. Or do you even get to that part? haha... oh wait, this ain't funny.): --------------------------------------- Known Issues Blue Screen Crash under Windows 2000 - We are investigating problems reported by some Windows 2000 users. Crashes may occur when Take Two is installed; Active Desktop and/or Norton Utilities may be implicated. Take Two is installed as part of the default installation, so if you are installing Easy CD Creator 5.0 under Windows 2000 and wish NOT to install Take Two, you must perform a custom installation. We have isolated this bug and expect a fix very shortly; watch this space. ------------------ "Yes, you can touch me." -- Rocketman95 showing he's not only a liberal, but he's pretty liberal with his body... I don't make this stuff up folks, they really say it...
Oh, one more thing. When InstallShield crashes, it leaves stuff floating in memory. I know on Win9x machines you'll often see a isdel_ or somesuch running in memory if you press CTRL+ALT+DEL. If any of these are running in memory, kill these before trying again. Oh, I also just read that installs on upgrades to Windows 2000 from 95/98/NT are not supported. Was this a full install cd or did you upgrade from an earlier version? Also Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server are not supported. What you're doing running the last 2 at home I'll never know, but are you running the first one? Hmm.. I may just stick with the version I have as I was about to upgrade, too. Ah well. ------------------ "Yes, you can touch me." -- Rocketman95 showing he's not only a liberal, but he's pretty liberal with his body... I don't make this stuff up folks, they really say it... [This message has been edited by Dr of Dunk (edited March 16, 2001).]
this was a "clean install" using a 2000 upgrade disk, which really should be nothing more than a less expensive copy. anyhow, i'm tracing down some other stuff. will let you know. I did not get allowed to fully delete all partitions from 2000 like I wanted. That is probably part of the prob. I'm looking for a DOS fdisk righ now, and will fully erase everything since I've lost total confidence with this problem. Question: what freeware out there allows me to wack a NTFS or boot to fdisk? you should upgrade and choose "clean install"; it is better than 4.0 overall.
"Hmm.. I may just stick with the version I have as I was about to upgrade, too. Ah well." It installed fine on my w2k laptop. Heyp's got a flakey 2k install, apparently due to his attempt to salvage his *nix partition.
Huh? Keep this up and I'll put you guys behind the wheel of a Honeywell TDC1000. It's a dinosaur of a control board. Then see if your high tech Windows 2000 will know what to do then! ------------------ Behad Sergeant at Arms of the Clutch BBS
Can you boot to Win9x and nuke an NTFS partition using fdisk? I don't know; I never tried. You can always get a Win9x bootable floppy and boot to a DOS prompt and execute the fdisk off that, but like I said, I don't know if you'd be able to nuke an NTFS partition. If you can, see below : ---------------------------- You can d/l various boot images from here. I'll leave it to you to figure out which combinations of what may work. : http://support.micronpc.com/file_lib/boot.html http://www.startdisk.com http://www.myshed.net http://www.bovistech.com/disks.htm (has an image of a Win98 boot disk that has fdisk on it) ------------------ "Yes, you can touch me." -- Rocketman95 showing he's not only a liberal, but he's pretty liberal with his body... I don't make this stuff up folks, they really say it...
Nice pic of an almost-finished product. What's your point? ------------------ "Yes, you can touch me." -- Rocketman95 showing he's not only a liberal, but he's pretty liberal with his body... I don't make this stuff up folks, they really say it...
heyp, Get Win2K's Service Pack 1 (available free at <A HREF="http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/">Windows Update</A>) - it ought to take care of the situation you're facing. I've installed Easy CD 5 on Win2K Server w/o a problem. Let us know how it flows.. ------------------
bingo. when in doubt about a new OS install ... whack the harddrive. well, this was my machine from work that I was given. Huge puppy. But, the admin had placed some crap disk management toy on it that made the partitions and original NTFS drive. Win2000 apparently did not like that too well. Win2000 installed and everything with a "clean install", but some flakiness from the get go. about fdisk I got an fdisk, but when you boot up in an earlier OS, you flat out do not see the NTFS. There were two partitions, so fdisk went ahead and handled the other one, but it didn't see the NTFS. Luckily, I found a Maxtor utility disk with its disk management on it. It wacked it. Yeah!!!!!! Easy CD Creator is up and running, and I'm burning that Win 2000 disk right now. Then taking it back to MicroCenter for my money back. That was too much work Bill Gates made me do, bastid.
Do what I did, get a computer nerd friend to install it for you... Best thing is that I didn't pay one dime for mine... Man, I love piracy... ------------------ "Awesome baby!" Dick Vitale
You don't know how funny that is. Ah, the irony. Mango ------------------ Get it right or just don't do it! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain and ....
