Monday, 28 April 2014

How to fix Error code 1603”A fatal error occurred during installation" when try to install a Windows Installer package

This Error code 1603 is known as the Windows installation error. Which is mainly occurs when a user try to install a Windows installer package on the PC and at such time the user unable to install and receives error message on the PC screen. This error code 1603 issue occurs due to various reasons and mostly it occurs if the installation folder is encrypted, if the installation package is derived from a substitute drive and restricted to access the System account etc are the main reasons of this issue. But we can find many reasons when a Computer unable to perform any task and encounters with many unknown errors. Sometimes improperly maintenance of the PC may lead to serious damage of the Operating System so in this article we will discuss about the Windows error code 1603 and its solution.

Symptoms of the Error code 1603”A fatal error occurred during installation"
When a user attempt to install an installation package may receives the following error message on the PC screen
“Error 1603: A fatal error occurred during installation”
At such time if you click on the OK button the installation process rolls back and unable to progress installation.

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Cause of the Error code 1603”A fatal error occurred during installation"
This error occurs for various reasons which are describe as below, it occurs due to either one of the causes
If the Windows installation folder is encrypted and the user tries to install from that folder it returns error message to the user, if the System driver contain the installation folder which is derived from a substitute drive it creates the fatal error issue and the last reason is if the user account has not any full control permission to access that folder when a user try to Windows installation from that folder the System account can’t give any permission to install software on the user machine. So it is most necessary to get resolve windows error 1603.

Solution of windows error 1603
You have to try installation package from a folder which is not an encrypted folder, you have to access the drive which is not a substitute drive and you have to grant the full control to access the System account. To grant the full control you can follow the manual instruction which is applicable for Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Apply this method if you have receives the error message of Grant full access permission
Open my Computer then right click on the drive which you want to install in the Windows Installer package then click on properties and click on security tab
Click the Security tab if not found this option you can also follow this method

Click on Start, and then click My Computer and on the tool menu choose folder option then click on view tab and clear the Use Simple File Sharing check box to turn off Simple File Sharing then from the security tab verify the Name or Group or user names box then click on Add. Then you will able to see allow and click on Advance option now select the Replace permission entries on the child objects and reset the permission and then click on Ok. Then you will able to see the security message and click on yes then run the Windows installer package.

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