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seanl
10-01-2008, 18:27
ok here we go.. i got to the autodesk site downloaded the 32bit version of Inventor. got it all extracted and im about to install it then..BAM
Operation completed sucessfully
failed to copy following files: SetupRes

then..

Setup initialization failed

thats it..but here the catch
im running MS Vista 32bit home premium:(
is this the problem?
or did i do something wrong?

ive installed inventor before but its always been on a xp machine and i never had and problems. Any Ideas?
The_Laughing_ManMII
10-01-2008, 18:29
i haven't had any luck running our old programs on vista either... i feel your pain!
jimmythetulip22
10-01-2008, 21:57
I got my version of inventor to run just fine, and I have vista ulitmate.
What I maybe did different is not install anything else besides inventor, try that and it might work!

Good luck, and i feel your pain also... :)
Loubear
13-01-2008, 20:02
You used the student downloader didn't you? The problem that I had with vista while downloading was that it didn't download everything... Use the zipped installation files instead.
aksimhal
13-01-2008, 20:06
...Or you can also use the FirstBase downloader tool. Might help.
Marksman MD
14-01-2008, 08:02
yeah, I'm having the same problem with windows vista, you can download a fix from autodesk but you need to have the program already installed to use it which makes no sense.

Any help would be appreciated.
aksimhal
14-01-2008, 16:54
yeah, I'm having the same problem with windows vista, you can download a fix from autodesk but you need to have the program already installed to use it which makes no sense.

Any help would be appreciated.

I don't have vista, but a team member does and his works fine (although he did use the students.autodesk.com site for the free download). Is it possible to install the downloader tool in Vista?
Marksman MD
14-01-2008, 17:26
yeah, I have the student download program on vista, i have downloaded autodesk inventor but when the program goes to install, it says that the operating system is not supported.
EHaskins
14-01-2008, 18:18
I have just installed Inventor 2008 on both my Vista Ultimate x64 and my Vista Ultimate x86 boxes without any real issues.

On the x64 box I had to run setup32.exe directly since there is no setup64.exe, and the first time my download got courrupted(wouldn't de-compress), but both machines installed and ran fine. I did use the download tool.

I would try re-downloading.