Installing Visual Studio 2010 RC from a Virtual DVD?

Wednesday, February 10 2010 - Tools

I got bit when installing the VS2010 RC and it cost me a few hours of aggravation. Here’s why.

I use Daemon Tools to mount ISOs to a virtual DVD. I have a Windows 7 machine and am using a new installation of Daemon. By default, Daemon’s auto-mount feature is turned off. I didn’t realize this.

During the installation, the installer needs to reboot. When it rebooted, it didn’t find the DVD and I scrambled to re-attach the ISO file while the installer was attempting to continue setup.

I thought I got it covered, but in the end I had the following error:

rcinstall

What a slap in the face. No Entity Framework tools out of everything in VS that could have been left out! LOL. Well, I do need those.

I tried repairing the installation two times but still the tools did not install.

I finally decided to just uninstall and reinstall but this time I would be smart and burn the darned DVD.

Wouldn’t you know, my brand new DVD writer wasn’t being recognized.

So as a last resort, I used WinRAR to unzipped the ISO file onto my hard drive and I was then able to install directly from the files.

The installation went perfectly. And because I had uninstalled VS2010 but not .NET 4, the reboot was unnecessary.

Since then I have heard from many people that they had no installation problems when using Virtual CloneDrive.

#1 Dmitry on 2.11.2010 at 1:07 AM

Yes, Virtual CloneDrive worked great for me.

Daemon Tools do not seem to play well with Windows 7 x64, even the latest version.

#2 Michael on 2.11.2010 at 6:06 AM

Virtual Clone Drive all the way for me. In fact the whole SlySoft is awesome and extremely well supported.

#3 Alvin Ashcraft on 2.11.2010 at 7:58 AM

PowerISO also works fine. The ISO mounting part of the software is free. If you want to build ISOs with it, you must purchase a license.

#4 Mark H on 2.11.2010 at 9:23 AM

I used Magic iso and insured that "Auto-Mount" was ON.

Got burned previously that same when installing B2

#5 Curt on 2.11.2010 at 12:52 PM

I must have lucked out--with Daemon Tools Lite I got an error after reboot, realized what happened, and re-mounted the ISO. After telling the setup program to retry the installation continued merrily on its way. Maybe things actually went right for once. :) Thanks for the link to Virtual CloneDrive.

#6 Greg Duncan on 2.11.2010 at 1:22 PM

Virtual CloneDrive Worked great for me too (Win7 x64), with "automount last image" checked. (Like Mark H, learned that lesson with B2).

One thing I did run into was that the automounting was done during the login, and executed AFTER the VS setup resumed. But the VS Setup was "nice"/smart and gave me a "Cannot find E:\blabla" Retry/Cancel dialog.

So I just gave Virtual CloneDrive a second to automount the ISO, clicked Retry and the setup resumed with no problems.

SlySoft/Virtual CloneDrive FTW

#7 Vijay Santhanam on 2.15.2010 at 7:36 AM

I had the same issues for both the beta and RC using poweriso.

i burned to dvd from frustration and lack of options and it all worked smoothly.

#8 Guille on 3.28.2010 at 3:34 PM

OMG !!! I got the same error and It was getting me nuts ! Thanks for the info.