[Bug?] Removing Drive during Installation Causes Error - LabVIEW 2010 SP1

[jgcode]

Hi

I randomly noticed that when I removed a hard drive (portable, not related to installation at all) during installation LabVIEW 2010 SP1 the installer generated an error.

I never continued to see what happened, I restarted the installer just to be safe.

I don't know why licencing? has to care about my portable HDD, but it obviously does?

Cheers

-JG 

[smercurio_fc]

Is P:\ the removable drive?

[jgcode]

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@smercurio_fc wrote:

Is P:\ the removable drive?

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Yes, as per my OP it is a portable HDD.

Cheers

-JG

[Thør]

Does this only happen in the "Computing space requirements...." stage of the installer, or at any point during the install?

[jgcode]

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@Kyle T wrote:

Does this only happen in the "Computing space requirements...." stage of the installer, or at any point during the install?

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Thanks KyleI didn't have time to pull it out at different stages of the install to test (that and I wasn't game to), so it just happened to me at the beginning.

Cheers

-JG

[Thør]

I'll test this out on my own and see if I can replicate it.  Thanks for the heads up!

[jgcode]

Cheers - I was able to replicate this twice on two separate machines.

[billko]

I think the LabVIEW installer keeps track of ALL your removable drives, so it "notices" when one goes away.  It may be an operating system thing.  Have you tried it while installing other software?

A good rule of thumb is: NEVER mess with your drives - ANY of them - while you're installing something.

Bill

[DustTheWind]

OP wow you solved my problem.  I was repairing DAQ but it was taking hours.  I sat for the longest time and tried to figure it out.  Scouring the internet when I came across your mention of a portable drive.  Now mind you my portable drive is completely empty and I had just reformated it.  Lab view was just hanging on "computing computing space requirements" then after half an hour might install on part of 98.  Talk about slow!  This is a horrible problem!  I unpluged my portable hard drive and sure enough whammo It's installing them in a flash!  I would say your right on there is a problem here.  An empty portable hard drive attached to a computer should in no way have that kind of effect.