PRB: Installing Applications from an HPFS Formatted Drive

• Microsoft Visual Basic Professional and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0
• Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0
• Microsoft Visual Studio versions 97, 97sp1, 97sp2

SYMPTOMS

When running the application Setup Wizard from a network drive that is formatted as HPFS or Netware 4.x volume with the OS/2 NameSpace loaded with long filenames, one of the following two errors occurs:

In Visual Basic 4.0:

C:\WINDOWS\ST4UNST.EXE Cannot read source file

C:\WINDOWS\ST5UNST.EXE Cannot read source file

RESOLUTION

To work around this problem, you can create the setup application onto floppy disks, or move the setup files from the HPFS volume to either a FAT or NTFS formatted drive.

STATUS

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

The following operating systems support HPFS:

   OS2
   OS2 Warp
   IBM LAN Server
   NT 3.51 Workstation/Server
   NT 4.0 Workstation/Server 

REFERENCES

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q100108 Overview of FAT, HPFS, and NTFS File Systems

Additional query words: hpsf

Keywords : kbsetup kbVBp400 kbVBp500 kbGrpVB TlsSetWiz VB4WIN vbwin
Version : WINDOWS:4.0,5.0,97,97sp1,97sp2;
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb