error 2098

When trying to install visual studio 2005 beta , I got error 2098 saying the file may be corupt and exited the installation. Any suggestions

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error 2098

  • Nehal Jain

    How are you downloading the installer, are you using the web installer or the CD Image. We have seen problems like this with the web installer and normally just downloading the full iso version (Manual Download Method for Install) the problem stops. Also if you do down load the iso version you do not have to register the products.



  • Mark Kaplan

    If you want to try the full installation check out the trial versions

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/trial/



  • Jacques van t Ende

    Thats what I was doing. I was installing Visual Studio free version and got error 2098 saying file was corrupt. I have tried downloading several times and same problem.


  • kReynolds

    You mentioned beta, the VS2005 are no longer in beta but released. Either you install the free express edition or a trial VS2005 version

  • Fabita

    You cann't install Visual Studio with your corrupted installation file, so, download Visual Studio Express, it's free to download and free to registeration.


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