orcad9.0 under windows XP

Could it be that your CD media is corrupted/damaged? If that's not it, perhaps see if setting Orcad9.exe or whatever it is for Windows 2000 compatibility (right-click on it) and see if the problems disappears.

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wolf wrote:

Take a look at your CD, and see if there is a different .exe, something like _setup.exe or something like that. It has been a LONG time, but IIRC this skipped the splash screen, and went right to the installer.

Of course, you are asking for trouble installing something that came out long before WinXP, and hoping it will run there...

Charlie

Particularly if it's OrCAD ;-)

Of course old copies of TurboTax won't either :-(

...Jim Thompson

MFC ? sounds like a VC/ VB compiled app ? anyways, its possible that its trying to replace a file that is in use already? most likely would be one of the support runtimes in the system folder. oR!, you could have a failed CD, CD rom Drive or the App is trying to do some screwy software protection check using a function your CD/CD drivers does not support or !, you could have problems with some long file name on some folders? or!. you are not logged in as Admin and on a pc that is restricted ? who knows! :) could be a many of things!

Hi, I tried to install on another PC with another windows version ( win98) still the same problems, so, my CDrom reader works fine and the CD is not damaged ( I could copy all files from it to harddisk) and I do nowhere find the compatibility info.

By the way, who is generating rhe error I get , Microsoft or the Orcad application and why is there no real explanation of what kind of error error number:-2 means?

This is the error I always get:

Severe : General file transfer error. Please check your target location and try again. Error number:-2

Wolf.

Hi,

which file is it trying to replace int he system folder, it doesn't tell me. CD and CD rom drive seems to be ok after trying several different Cd drives and copying from CD to HD.

I have tried also from a dvd drive, the latest one, so I think this must at least support the "screwy" SW protection check. I was lgged in as admin as well. winxp supports verly long file names as well. So, any other idea?

Wolf.

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To me "target location" implies that the problem is at the hard disk not the CD rom. Have you done a scan on the hard drive lately?

It may be that the install cd refers to the "C:" drive. At XP Microsoft is trying to start moving away from the old "C:" "D:" drive specifications.

Not very effectively mind you; DOS 3.1 had better facilities.

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With Microsoft, every OS is better than the next.

About two decades back good old AmigaDOS would prompt with things like, "Please insert volume OrCAD: in any drive..." Nicest approach I've ever seen taken. (It also had the very demanding error message, "You MUST replace volume OrCAD in drive df0:!" if you removed the disk while it was writing to it. Also a little nicer than most other OSes that just give up and fail and immediately give you a corrupted file as a result.)