MSI Installer problems

[C J.]

Hi All,

I wasn't sure where this post should go - so I crossposted this to
Windowsxp.perform & maintain. Briefly - I had to redo my installation of
Windows XP sp2 - due to disk / partition errors Chkdsk couldn't fix and
neither could a repair install. I backed up my stuff, lowleveled the drive,
repartitioned and formatted, and then re-installed XP.

While installing UPHClean from desktop I got a error 1305

Event Type: Error
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11305
Date: 7/23/2007
Time: 3:49:42 PM
User: SELF-2F9F7F0594\Chris
Computer: SELF-2F9F7F0594
Description:
Product: User Profile Hive Cleanup Service -- Error 1305. Error reading from
file C:\Documents and Settings\Chris\Desktop\UPHClean-Setup.msi. System
error 1008. Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.

As I said earlier... the MSI file was on my desktop.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 7b 46 46 37 37 39 34 31 {FF77941
0008: 41 2d 32 42 46 41 2d 34 A-2BFA-4
0010: 41 31 38 2d 42 45 32 45 A18-BE2E
0018: 2d 36 39 42 39 34 39 38 -69B9498
0020: 45 34 44 35 35 7d E4D55}

Is this a problem with MSI thats on my machine? What I thought was strange,
is I went back to Microsoft online. I downloaded UPHClean again, and this
time ran it from Internet Explorer and it installed normally.

 

[Leonard Grey]

Hi C.J.:

Your experience is not strange at all. It's not uncommon for a file to
become corrupted as it travels through the internet to your computer.

When that happens, all you do is delete the file you have and download
it again, as you discovered. Think of it as a 'bad connection' when
talking to someone on the telephone. Just hang up and try again. ;-)

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

I had to redo my installation of Windows XP sp2
Ugly...

due to disk / partition errors Chkdsk couldn't fix and
neither could a repair install.

Neither can fix a dying HD.

To see whether the HD is dying, use the free HD Tune from
www.hdtune.com, ideally from a Bart CDR boot (alas, it will not run
from WinPE 2.0). If running from Vista, you must run as Admin.

When run, HD Tune will show you the temperature, which should ideally
be < 40C. I've seen temperatures in the 60C-70C+ range, but rarely
without bad sectors; new laptops routinely run 45C or so, but I'd fan
the HDs to keep them below 50C and ideally < 40C.

The middle tab shows SMART detail, which gives you previous HD
history. Look at the raw Data column, ignoring most scary-looking
numbers; the ones that should always be Zero are Reallocated Sector
Count, Pending Sector, and Offline Uncorrectable.

Ignore the "OK" editorial, the SMART summary is set to report
impending HD death only after the corpse has rotted.

Then go to the last tab and start the full (slow) surface scan, which
tests the physical HD irrespective of partitions and file systems. If
that shows one red block, replace the HD. You can also watch
temperature and SMART details in real time as the scan goes on.

This is both safer (no attempts to "fix") and more informative than
some horror like ChkDsk /R.

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Who is General Failure and
why is he reading my disk?