WD Smartware software throws a "Error: 1603" and will not complete installation

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Just bought a WD My Passport Essential 500GB portable hard drive to back up my Dell Dimension E310 desktop, Pentium 4, 2 GB RAM, running Win XP Pro, SP3; 2 .  Internal HD is original Maxtor SATA 80GB  with about 13GB free.  Clicked on ‘Install WD Smartware’, agreed to EULA, and installation starts.  At about the ‘3 minutes remaining’ mark, I get  an error box - “Installation was not successful (Error Code: 1603)  Please try again or contact WD support for assistance.”

Any help is appreciated.  Thx, Mike

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Maybe you should try contacting WD’s Technical Support about this. You can do so either by phone or email.

To Contact WD for Technical Support
http://support.wdc.com/contact/index.asp?lang=en

Regards,

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Try to uninstall all NET Frameworks and install Microsoft .NET 3.5 Framework SP1

I would suggest to delete what is eventually left of Smartware and then reinstall Smartware.

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Were you trying to install from the version on the drive or the “upgrader”?

1603 usually means that the installation MSI didn’t launch correctly.