Source Disk corrupt....

[Guest]

Very strange. I ordered and tried to install eval version of FP2003 from
Microsoft. Received error mesage "source disk corrupt". Thought that was
strange for an original product direct from Microsoft. After system restore,
for other reasons, I thought I would try to install FP2003 first, and it
installed just fine. Then when I tried to reinstall my Office 2003 I got
"fatal installation error". I removed FP2003 and Office installed fine.
Obviously there is a conflict between these two installs. I also noticed that
no matter what I do, I cannot remove/delete/erase the "microsoft frontpage"
directory. It always says the program is in use. I found this error in the KB
and it said to try to reinstall in safe mode, but this didn't work either.

My concern is that I am receiving a full version by courier any day now, and
don't want to have the same install probs. I can't see there being a diff
between the eval and full versions, and expect I will have the same issues.

 

[Steve Easton]

The directory: microsoft frontpage is a system default directory created
when the OS is installed.
You can not delete it.

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[Guest]

Thank you, Steve. Do you think I am going to have the same problem installing
the full version then? If so, is there a workaround?

 

[Steve Easton]

I don't think there will be a problem with the full version.

Don't know why you had a problem with the eval version. Just possible that
it was a bad CD


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[Guest]

I don't think so (bad disk) only because it installed just fine as long as
Office wasn't on there first. I had a buddy visiting who has the exact same
laptop as me, and he installed it fine as well from the same eval disk. He
doesn't run Office.

 

[Guest]

I was puzzled by the microsoft frontpage directory on the c: drive. What is
its purpose?

 

[Steve Easton]

iirc it was used by older versions of FrontPage that used the PWS ( Personal
Web Server )
I assume it's there for backward compatibility purposes.


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[Guest]

Thanks for the quick reply. Is there any way to delete this directory?

 

[Steve Easton]

Not that I'm aware of.
It's owned by winlogon.exe. Why I don't know.
Besides, it's a harmless zero byte directory.


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[Guest]

Well, there's harmless and then there's annoying: one likes to have a clean
root directory, after all. I couldn't delete it even using a bootable INSERT
CD-ROM that loads outside of Windows and allows one to noodle around NTFS
partitions. You can recover files (helpful if the disk won't boot) or delete
files and directories - unless they're 'Read Only,' as in this case.

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

It may be annoying, but it doesn't change the fact it cannot be deleted. MS
considers it part of the O/S. Why, we don't know.