XP Mode installation errors

[CCCItech]

[FONT=&quot]Heres an interesting one for you all! [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]I am having trouble installing Windows XP Mode on a Dell E4300 laptop with Windows 7 Pro 32-bit. For the record, I have installed XPM on multiple occasions without any issues at all, until now. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Upon launching the XP Mode installer, it starts to deploy the temporary files but hangs at expanding “sources\xpm”. Then I get the following error: [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“This installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package”. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]If I try multiple times, I am sometimes able to get beyond that point where the XP Mode setup screen shows up, but then I receive an error during the installation process that says:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“Source file not found: D:\xxxxxxxxxxxxxx\sources\XPM. Verify that the file exists and that you can access it”. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Ive checked everything I could with no avail…permissions, Hardware Virtualization. I also installed it on an identical machine with the same setup. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Then I got a hunch that the Windows Installer might have been corrupted. So I ran the command to un-install it (msiexec /uninstall) & got the same error message as above (“This installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package…)[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]What doesn’t make sense is that I just re-imaged the machine with a clean install of Windows 7. Could there be a recent Windows update causing the problem? [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Thanks in advance![/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Chris[/FONT]

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello CCCItech, welcome to Seven Forums!




Maybe by some strange occurrence the installer got corrupted, have you attained another, have a look at the tutorial at the link below; be sure to let us know how it sorts out.


Windows XP Mode - Install and Setup