Hi,

I would appreciate help from anyone who knows the solution to my installation problem. I have been trying to install visual studio for a couple weeks, and it fails every time. I have tried booting the computer with no non-MS services running, with no firewall, installing from a CD, installing from files copied to the HD, etc. The computer is running Win XP home edition SP2, and has 17GB free HD space.

Below are the last few lines of the log file.

You can see that the MSI reports "Note 1:1708" and then reports a general failure 1603.

Property(S): SourcedirProduct = {D407F7C0-579E-4CCB-91FD-855CE5084E86}
Property(S): OutOfDiskSpace = 0
Property(S): OutOfNoRbDiskSpace = 0
Property(S): PrimaryVolumeSpaceAvailable = 0
Property(S): PrimaryVolumeSpaceRequired = 0
Property(S): PrimaryVolumeSpaceRemaining = 0
Property(S): HxDs_Tmp_3643236F_FC70_11D3_A536_0090278A1BB8 = C:\DOCUME~1\GENERA~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\Hx44.tmp
Property(S): HxDs_Tmp_Hash_3643236F_FC70_11D3_A536_0090278A1BB8 = B40B0DC6C3C19C68E0101E0E2A647F0C3A18F6
Property(S): ProductToBeRegistered = 1
MSI (s) (E8:8C) [12:46:07:843]: Note: 1: 1708
MSI (s) (E8:8C) [12:46:07:843]: Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition - ENU -- Installation failed.

MSI (s) (E8:8C) [12:46:07:953]: Cleaning up uninstalled install packages, if any exist
MSI (s) (E8:8C) [12:46:07:953]: MainEngineThread is returning 1603
MSI (s) (E8:E4) [12:46:08:093]: Destroying RemoteAPI object.
MSI (s) (E8:A8) [12:46:08:093]: Custom Action Manager thread ending.
=== Logging stopped: 12/26/2006 12:46:07 ===
MSI (c) (A0:84) [12:46:08:125]: Decrementing counter to disable shutdown. If counter >= 0, shutdown will be denied. Counter after decrement: -1
MSI (c) (A0:84) [12:46:08:125]: MainEngineThread is returning 1603
=== Verbose logging stopped: 12/26/2006 12:46:08 ===

could you also post the lines before this block?