Setup Failed: Visual Studio 2010 Pro installation

Question

Trying to install VS2010Pro on Windows 7 (64bit) and i also checked all system requirements for the same.

ERROR:

VIEW ERROR LOG:

[05/15/12,10:48:22] Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 64bit Prerequisites (x64): [2] Error: Installation failed for component Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 64bit Prerequisites (x64). MSI returned error code 1603
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 64bit Prerequisites (x64) is not installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual F# 2.0 Runtime was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates TFS Object Model (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates .NET Framework 4 Multi-Targeting Pack was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional - ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 - Visual Studio 2010 Tools was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Silverlight 3 SDK was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Office Developer Tools (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Dotfuscator Software Services - Community Edition was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Crystal Reports templates for Visual Studio 2010 was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 (x64) ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 (x64) ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Sync Services for ADO.NET v2.0 (x64) ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Sync Framework Services v1.0 (x64) ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Sync Framework SDK v1.0 (x64) ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates VC 10.0 Designtime (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Publishing Wizard 1.4 was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server System CLR Types was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Objects was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Objects (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Service Pack 1 (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Data-Tier Application Framework was not attempted to be installed.
[05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Data-Tier Application Project was not attempted to be installed.

REF LINKS 1. MSDN 2. BLOG (tried)

have also asked question in MSDN forum.

Do i have any better solutions to trouble shoot this problem other than re installing the OS ?

Answer 1

After 2days of work around, Solution is finally here.....Phew!!!!!

Here we go,

As error indicated VS2010 was getting stuck while installing Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 64bit Prerequisites (x64)

Error: Installation failed for component Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 64bit Prerequisites (x64). MSI returned error code 1603

So i searched for the corresponding directory and ran .exe manually

VS2010Pro\adminpoint\WCU\64bitPrereq\x64

ran VS_Prerequisites_x64_enu & got one more ERROR

error 25541 failed to open xml file C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config, system error -2147024786

Looked for machine.config in indicated path, but I couldn't find machine.config in

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\CONFIG

So i copied machine.config.default on to desktop and renamed it to machine.config and added it to C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\CONFIG then ran VS_Prerequisites_x64_enu & then VS2010 installer.

VS_Prerequisites_x64_enu ---> (finally) VS2010 installer

Note: by doing this i tricked installer & installation went smooth.

More details HERE

Answer 2

Error code 1603: solution can be found at this msdn link http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/eu/vssetup/thread/3f07772c-4187-4be7-a390-d775f8eb5a50

If its not solved please try to post it here in VisualStudio Setup & Installation forum. Hope it helps