Installing Visual Studio 2005 on Windows 7 X64

Question

I am trying to install Visual Studio 2005 Professional on Windows 7 X64 and it fails quickly while installing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 64bit Prerequisites (x64). The install error logs includes the following:

[08/25/09,14:46:14] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 64bit Prerequisites (x64): [2] Component Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 64bit Prerequisites (x64) returned an unexpected value.

[08/25/09,14:46:17] setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent::Pre/Post/Install() failed in ISetupManager::InstallManagerHelper() with HRESULT -2147023293.

[08/25/09,14:46:17] setup.exe: [2] Component error string not specified in ISetupManager::AddToActionResultCollection()

Windows 7 provides this additional information:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:                 InPageError
Error Status Code:                  c000000d
Faulting Media Type:                00000000
OS Version:                         6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID:                          1033
Additional Information 1:           0a9e
Additional Information 2:           0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3:           0a9e
Additional Information 4:           0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Efforts to search for this problem on the Internet have not produced anything useful so far so I thought I would ask here. Is it just me or have others experienced this issue?

Answer 1

With some help from a managed MSDN forum and some luck I got this installed. Some of the steps I took made no sense but I thought I should document this for others.

I extracted the Prerequisites installer by running \wcu\64bitPrereq\vs_bsln.exe using the /C switch then ran the installer with logging using this command from an Administrator Command Prompt:

msiexec /package vs_bsln.msi /log <filename>

This gave me a different error message:

MSI (s) (C4:D4) [09:14:54:489]: Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 64bit
Prerequisites (x64) - ENU -- Error 1945.You do not have sufficient privileges
to complete the re-advertisement of this product. Re-advertisement requires
initiation by a local system account calling the MsiAdvertiseScript API, such
as through Group Policy Software Deployment.

The rest does not really make sense to me but I repeated that above command logged in as a domain Administrator rather than a local Administrator and the Prerequisites installed!

So I tried installing Visual Studio again and it did not attempt to install the prerequisites but failed with the same message on the next component (Document Explorer, as I recall). I tried launching \vs\setup.exe as Administrator and it worked.

UPDATE 10/21/09: This problem may have been related to running the install from a shared DVD drive on another computer. If you encounter a problem like this and you are running the install over a network, trying copying the install locally.