Microsoft KB Archive/145618

= FIX: Visual Basic 4.0 Setup on Compressed Drive Failure =

Article ID: 145618

Article Last Modified on 12/9/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 32-Bit Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q145618



SYMPTOMS
When attempting to install Visual Basic 4.0 for the first time, the following message is received:

Setup cannot access the required initialization file :

'O:\VB4DROP\ENT-CD\SETUP\VB4-2.CAB : ACMSETUP.HLP : MSSTP32.DL_ :

VB4SETUP.TTF : ODBCCP32.DLL : ODBCINT.DLL : MSVCRT40.DLL'.



CAUSE
Installing on a compressed drive may fail if the uncompressed drive, usually H:\, has more than 900K but less than 2MB free on it. This is due to an error in SETUP.LST and SETUP16.LST on the CD. The value for TmpDirSize in setup.lst/setup16.lst is set to 900. This tells the setup program that setup need 900K of free space on the drive in order to create the temporary directory (~msstfqf.t) for the install. The amount of room needed by Visual Basic 4.0 is actually:


 * 32-bit Enterprise and Professional Editions: 2000K
 * 16-bit Enterprise and Professional Editions: 1250K
 * 32-bit Standard Edition: 1500K

For example, when Visual Basic is installed on a computer using a compressed C drive with drive H as the host, H will be used to create the temporary directory because as host it is the boot drive. If the amount of space available on drive H is under 900K, setup will use another drive. If the amount of space available on drive H is over (about) 1800K, setup will use the H drive, and no problem will occur. If the amount of space available on the H drive is between 900K and (about) 1800K, setup will use the H drive, but it will fail due to insufficient space.



WORKAROUND

 * For a floppy install, change the value of TmpDirSize in the setup.lst/ setup16.lst file.
 * Copy files to the host drive (typically H:) so that it has less than 900K of free space remaining.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be an issue in Microsoft Visual Basic programming system version 4.0 for Windows. This problem has been corrected in the Microsoft Visual Basic version 4.0a for windows synchronization release.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbsetup kbvbp400afix KB145618

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