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Josh - 26 Aug 2003 05:00 GMT

While installing Visual Studio .Net 2003 , I receive
an "Error 1305: Could not read file" box. I verify that
the file does exist and there are not scratches on the CD.
I just used this CD earlier today to install Visual
Studio on my main office computer.
I have tried to install several times, and each time a
new file is "unreadable."

Thanks for any help on this fix,
Josh (asugeek@aol.com)

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Tim Macaulay[MS] - 27 Aug 2003 22:54 GMT

Hi Josh,

The 1305 error could be several things:

could be that the media is bad
could be that the cd-rom drive is having trouble with the reading the media

A few things you could try:

1. Disabling DMA through Device Manager > IDE/ATA Controllers

2. Installing from a shared source, such as the drive on the machine
that the install completed successfully on

3. Copying the data to the hard drive and installing from the hard drive.

4. In some cases, updating the firmware on the CD-Rom drive will work
as well.

Cheers,
Tim Macaulay
Microsoft Corp.
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