"Jim Comfort" <JimComfort@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I had problems with my partition on my hard drive and when I recovered
> Windows XP, my studio.net was no longer functioning, so I tried running a
> reinstall, but it threw an error about the msi install files.
> I tried removing studio to reinstall a fresh copy, but it says it can't
> find the setup components.
> I seems that it's going to be an endless loop. I can't uninstall, and I
> can't run repair, because all run from the setup program that's got
> corrupted
> files stored somewhere.
> Any ideas, short of a complete hard drive format and reinstall of
> everything? i've got about 5 years worth of data on the drive, so a
> complete
> system backup (it's a 160 gig drive) is gonna be alot of work.
> Thanks in advance,
>

"Jim Comfort" <JimComfort@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks, I found that last night and did it, and managed to get install
> to
> run a fresh install. I opened a few of my projects, and they opened ok,
> but
> I haven't really run it through the paces as yet, but it appears to have
> worked.
> A second question...the .net framework update for 1.1 andthe J# updates
> didn't work and suggested a manual install of those. I have the 2.0 beta
> framework installed, is that going to need to be rolled back to 1.1 for
> studio?
>
> Jim