"Peter van der Goes" wrote:

>
> "Dirty Steve" <Dirty Steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A1405884-094C-4421-A31A-C286DB5593CF@microsoft.com...
> >I had to format my main drive, I backed up the VS 2002 & 2003 files. Now
> >when
> > I tryed to re-install 2003 I get an error "Please run the Visual Studio
> > .NET
> > Prerequisites setup." or if I go through the main setup folder, I get
> > "Setup
> > was unable to copy the file C:\xxx\xxx\\xxx\Visual Studio .NET
> > Professional
> > 2003 - English\setup\DeleteTemp.exe to your temporary directory. Please
> > make
> > sure that this file exists and rerun setup."
> > I have searched for this file, but cant find it.
> > Did I deleate it with the format?
> > Can I get it back?
> >
> > I have VS 2003 on my laptop also, but cant find the file.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> > Steve
>
> If you formatted the drive Visual Studio was installed on, then reinstalled
> the OS, you're going to have to reinstall Visual Studio from the
> distribution media. You can't copy back or reinstall from just the saved
> files and have it work. When Visual Studio was first installed, all sorts of
> information critical to proper Visual Studio operation was written to your
> registry, which is now gone.
>
> --
> Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
> Jack of all trades, master of none.
>
>