Installation problem with GnuCash-2.2.7 - no windows disk

[Jannick]

On 05.10.2008 03:58, Stephanie wrote:
> Installation problem with GnuCash-2.2.7 (r17597M built 2008-09-26)
> 
> I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium (my first mistake but let's leave that
> out of it).  I'm the admin and the only user. I disabled my firewall, shut
> down my antivirus program, closed everything possible and can't get it to
> properly install.
> 
> I downloaded gnucash-2.2.7-setup.exe<http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash-2.2.7-setup.exe?modtime=1222391681&big_mirror=1>
>    from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192  and began
> the installation.
> 
> Near the end of the installation I got an error that there was no windows
> disk. I got this: cancel - try again - continue and tried again many times.
> Then, I clicked to continue to get past that and it showed the installation
> as finished.
> 
> I attached a screenshot of my 4th attempt to correctly install. The DOS
> window path shows: C:\Program Files\gnucash\bin\guile.exe
> 
> After skipping the file that wouldn't run during setup and trying to start
> up the program, these three windows appear on my vista screen:
> 
> 1. GnuCash tip of the day dialog box comes up in a DOS box.
> 
> 2. a dialog box titled "Windows - No disk" comes up with the following:
> 
> Exception processing message 0xc0000013 Parameters 0x75FF92A0  0x0000004
> 0x75FF92A0 0x75FF92A0
> 
> cancel - try again - continue
> 
> 3. The actual GnuCash program window shows up first as "loading" and then as
> "not responding".
> 
> I tried canceling, trying again and continuing several times until vista
> comes up with the option to close the program or wait for the program to
> respond.
> I click to close and I see this: gnucash-bin.exe is not responding.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to get it to run properly?

I was running into the same problem. It helped to disconnect all
exterior hard drives for installation.

> Thanks,
> Steph


Best wishes,
J.