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Alan - 14 Dec 2007 22:38 GMT

Hi All,

I have downloaded the VS 2008 Pro trial version and I'm having problems
installing it.Visual Studio installs OK but when I install the MSDN Library
for VS2008 it stops with an error message

"Error 1330: A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet
file d:\msdn\cab13.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate
that the cabinet file is corrupt".

I have downloaded the file twice but I'm still getting the same error.

Please help
Alan

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Phil Wilson - 18 Dec 2007 19:05 GMT

See if this helps:
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2007/12/14/how-to-workaround-error-1330-dur
ing-visual-studio-2008-installation.aspx

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> Hi All,
>
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> Please help
> Alan

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DAWKCoDave - 04 Feb 2008 00:51 GMT

It doesn't

> See if this helps:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2007/12/14/how-to-workaround-error-1330-dur
ing-visual-studio-2008-installation.aspx
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> > Please help
> > Alan

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DAWKCoDave - 06 Feb 2008 23:57 GMT

It's unfortunate that I had to waste about 7 hours downloading and several
additional hours figuring this out, but at least it worked in the end.
Obviously, somebody needs to fix something--there shouldn't be this many
problems with a download!

Anyway--after cab18.cab and cab23.cab had invalid digital signatures in my
first download, I tried downloading the ISO image again; but this time,
cab13.cab and cab15.cab were bad. Then I realized that I could now piece
together a working image from the two downloads. (Luckily, the corrupted
cabs in the two downloads were different from each other.)

Specifically, I used Daemon Tools to mount, in turn, each ISO image
(cancelling Setup when it attempted its Autorun), and copied the files from
each ISO image to a separate folder on the hard disk. Then, I just replaced
the cab files that had bad/invalid signatures in one folder with the good cab
files from the other folder, and vice versa. (Note: this would also work
using the XP Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel.)

The result was that I had two good (working) sets of files, albeit from two
bad ISO images. Setup ran from the repaired set of files successfully.

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bigtoga - 08 Feb 2008 13:45 GMT

Good idea. I had the exact same thing happen - cab7.cab failed, I
downloaded new image and then it was cab23.cab that failed. I'll try
your approach if I feel like it.

I guess that, with VS2008, we get the same "quality" of installations
that we did with SQL 2005 and VS2005 :(

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Jingkun.lee@gmail.com - 26 Mar 2008 18:33 GMT

> Good idea. I had the exact same thing happen - cab7.cab failed, I
> downloaded new image and then it was cab23.cab that failed. I'll try
> your approach if I feel like it.
>
> I guess that, with VS2008, we get the same "quality" of installations
> that we did with SQL 2005 and VS2005 :(

I meet this problem too.

I think there must be something wrong with microsoft's download
server , or why many people face the same problem?

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