>I hope someone may be able to help today (Sunday 16 Feb). The need is quite *urgent* to me because I am to bring to our (Portland, OR) VFP SIG tomorrow (Monday) my machine with the VFP 8 beta. VFP 8 is the meeting's topic.
>
>Background:
>1) I have freshly installed XP Professionsl SP1 on a new drive.
>2) The system date set prior to 31 January 2003.
>3) I have searched and tried to digest earlier threads regarding VFP 8 installation problems.
>4) I have attempted installation from both a CD labeled "VFPPROD1" and from hard drive folders of the same name.
>5) I have tried reinstalled XP.
>
>Invariably the following occurs:
>
>When Setup.exe is run from the CD, the installer says Prerequisites need to be run.
>When I run the Prerequisites option
>
>1) I get a dialog "Please insert the Prerequisites disk for Visual FoxPro now."
> and a textbox with a prompted path of "R:\wcu". (R: is my CD drive letter).
>
>2) When I click "OK" I get a messagebox stating:
> "You have inserted the incorrect disk. Please insert the Prerequisites disk for Visual FoxPro."
>
>If I attempt to run \WCU\Setup.exe directly I get:
>"A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup."
>
>Can anyone possibly assist me, especially today! Thanks in advance.

Two possible stabs in the dark:

- when you try to run from the HD folder, have you made all the installation files read/write? By default, if you've copied them from a CD they will be read-only.
- have you tried a HD installation folder named something other than "VFPPROD1"?