The error 1603 ("
A fatal error occurred during installation") comes from Windows Installer (MsiExec.exe)
And that error occurs because you have either
- a bad installation of Windows Installer
- Windows Installer isn't up-to-date
- Disk space ran out while installing a program
- A certain file is still locked
- You have previously installed some updates of Windows but they weren't finished and/or fuxored other things up...
To properly fix it
(fix from mess.be and the ones described in previous posts are far from 'proper' and/or 'complete'):
- Close all applications running in the background
- Reboot your computer
- Clean out your temporary folder and/or other folders which might take up much disk space
- Make sure you have all the Windows updates and fixes:
http://www.windowsupdate.com/
- Redownload and reinstall the Windows Installer:
For Windows XP:
Windows Installer 3.1
For Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0:
Windows Installer 2.0
More Info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url...dows_installer.asp
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372856.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371185.aspx
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EDIT:
quote:
Originally posted by zweester
This procedure got around the error code 1603 for me:
That's because you circumvented the bootstrap loader. It is not a proper fix, it is just circumventing the error (which you would still have on your system after what you did).
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