PRB: Installing Applications from an HPFS Formatted Drive (179384)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows 5.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows 5.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition, 16-bit, for Windows 4.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition, 32-bit, for Windows 4.0
This article was previously published under Q179384

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
In Visual Basic 5.0:
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:

100108 Overview of FAT, HPFS, and NTFS File Systems

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:12/10/2003
Keywords:kbDSSTools kbprb kbsetup KB179384
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