Error 1711:An error occurred while writing installation information to disk

[H Limbrick]

Hi

I am installing VS.NET on a Windows 2000 Advanced Server which has...

C:(FAT) 608MB Free (The System partition. eg: the boot.ini resides here)
D: (NTFS) 3500MB Free (The Boot partition. eg: the W2K installation
resides here)

but no matter what components of VS.NET I try to install I always receive
the error...

Error 1711: An error occurred while writing installation information to the
disk.

The Readme file suggests that this may occur if I have less than 600MB free
on the system drive but there is enough space available (608MB).

I have tried reformating and doing a clean install but I still get the same
error.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Kurtis Smith]

Hello

It seems that you are cutting it close.
I have seen this error on systems where the free space was close.

I suggest that you try to free up a little more space on the drive and try
again.

Also, and please don't take this wrong, make sure you are not installing to
the C drive as there is not enough room on the C drive to install the
software in.

So, free up a little more space on C drive and make sure the default
installation folder is the D drive.

If this does not help, please search for the file errorlog.txt and zip up
and attach to this post.

Thanks

Kurtis Smith
Microsoft Developer Support

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