Topic: Strange Error on AutoCAD installation

[Keith™]

I needed to gain access to some of my old drawings over the weekend so I dug out my A2k7 CDs and went to install it on my Win7 computer. Everything was going fine until it gave an error that a file could not be found on the CD. I looked and sure enough the file isn't there.

Considering this is an OEM CD set that I received from AutoDesk, I know the files should be there. In fact, I know the software installed previously without issue.

A search of the CD found the files, but I can't move them to the location where it is looking for them and there is no way to browse to the file location.

What gives? Any ideas?

[Rob...]

Do you not have a newer version of AutoCAD?

[Keith™]

No. Because I am no longer in the design/drafting field, I can't justify buying a newer version.

I tried installing A2k but it wouldn't even install.

That is the extent of AutoCAD versions available to me.

[Rob...]

How about using a trial version?

[mjfarrell]

copy contents to HD and attempt install from that location

[Bethrine]

DRM

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=what%20is%20DRM

? 

[Keith™]

copy contents to HD and attempt install from that location

Tried that ... there were hundreds of files it said it couldn't find. I guess I could have moved them to the location where it thought they should exist (after copying the CDs), but after half a dozen files, I gave up. I told it to ignore the error and there were several hundred files that it couldn't find. It would have taken forever to get it installed like that.

DRM

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=what%20is%20DRM

? 

That could be an issue with copying it, but it didn't seem to have any effect.

It is just baffeling that it is a factory CD that I received from Autodesk and it installed previously without issue, although that was WinXP w/SP3 and the new install is Win7 Pro 64bit w/SP1.

[mjfarrell]

perhaps try 'create a deployment'  I think  I've done that to get around similar issues in the past

[Bethrine]

Isn't one of the things DRM can do is to limit the number of available installs?

[Keith™]

That isn't an issue with AutoCAD, and it isn't an issue with non-modifyable media. I guess if Autodesk tracked every installation it could be true, but I have only installed it once before, and my license allows two concurrent installations.

[Dinosaur]

It could be an issue with something in a Windows 7 update ... We had the same problems installing 2004 LT on our newest Windows 7 machines but had no problems installing on the XP boxes  or our original Windows 7 installations.  I had to search ones with a working install for the required file and copy it into the correct location in the network installation folder.  The CD install rejected all efforts.

[ronjonp]

Do you have an XP machine to test out on ( or setup VM )? Maybe your media did go bad.

[dgorsman]

These files may have been supplied with XP rather than the AutoCAD install disc (are these specifically AutoCAD files, or Win files?), but rolled into the core of Win 7 so are no longer applicable as stand-alone files.  They simply wouldn't exist in the Win 7 context.

What about one of the low-cost/free AutoCAD clones instead?

[Keith™]

I installed it on XP Pro SP3 without issue so it must be a Win7 issue