Software Bisque Knowledge Base Article – 83

SYSTEM ERROR SHARING VIOLATION INSTALLING UPDATE

ISSUE

During update setup, when the files are being copied to the hard disk, the message “System Error – Sharing Violation on Drive (A)” followed by the message box entitled “Severe” with the message “Error -2”. When setup is cancelled, “General File Transfer Error” message displayed.

RESOLUTION

Restart Windows with SHARE.EXE disabled (comment out of AUTOEXEC.BAT use REM), and try the update again – should go fine. See problem 119 if problems still exist.

APPLIES TO

Installation

KEYWORDS

SBKB

This article was formerly published under the identifier Q175KB in Software Bisque’s prior knowledge base.

Last Reviewed: 11/24/2004