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Reinstallation of FSX error


Emile Hallaby 1074691
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Emile Hallaby 1074691
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Hey guys, i have recently bought a bigger hard drive so i wanted to reinstall my fsx on the new drive, but for that i had to uninstall it. I did so and when the installation was almost complete it gave me this 2 errors:

Error 172.There is a problem with this windows installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personal or package vendor

Error -1603. Fatal error during installation, Consult Windows installer help (MSI.chm) or MSDN for more info

 

im running Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit

 

Anyone please help otherwise im grounded

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Paul Byrne
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Hi,

 

Have you tried running the installation as an administrator? You may need full permissions and access to install FSX correctly.

 

Cheers!

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Emile Hallaby 1074691
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This link sorted out my problem, anyone who has the same problem just go there

http://www.fsx.co.za/showthread.php?t=527

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