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Solve : AutoCad can not be reinstalled?

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My sad story is as follows: I have win10 installed on a ssd and all programs installed on separate sata hd. I swapped this hd for a larger, 1TG, having moved the programs to it through AppMover. All were moved and work well, minus the AUTOCAD 2014. I use Student Version 2014. The program message is: already installed. Thanks, AntonioI've never found an application "mover" that worked properly...
Why do you say it won't re-install ? ?
Full error message ? ?It says "AutoCad 2014 already installed. Just that.See Here...I'll perform a registry clean up for any AutoDesk footprint. ThanksI wouldn't mess with the registry without proper backup...but it's up to you...Made such clean up, no success. I think I'll have to formatThe main problem with "mover" apps is they only work on basic apps successfully...Antalves, do you still have the drive that has the good install?
Is the drive in good condition?
The reason for the questions  is taht Windows has ways of ENLARGEMENT your defective storage without the need to install files over again.

EDIT: Windows 10 has stuff lets  you increase drive space without a ordinary moving of programs. It virtually lets you  increase the size of a volume  by symbolically grafting a second drive.
 Some programs do not PERMIT moving. The symbolic trick makes a small drive look big. Here is one of the best links I found on this:
How to combine multiple hard drives into one volume on Windows 10.
Hope this is of some help.   Thanks for your tip!. However, it seems to me that the bad guy in this story is AutoCad . i've found dozens of topics of people having serious troubles with reinstallation. With the weekend coming I'm thinking seriously in a formated-and-clean installation of everything Clean build is definitely the way to go. If it was an older OS, I know that Karensware Registry Pruner works well to locate and prune out orphan registry entries. Many years ago I bought a HP Computer and it didnt come with a CD-RW drive. I added a DVD/CD-RW drive and when installing the Roxio software that came with the Phillips drive it kept telling me that I already have Roxio installed. Looked in add/remove programs and its not there. Used her free tool and found orphan registry entries for Roxio.

*The cause was HP being lazy and sending out a system image for a lower cost minitower that was the same image of a more costly tower that came with a CD Burner. Instead of making a clean image for this lower cost HP that I bought from Walmart as a cheapie Celeron 700Mhz, HP took a shortcut and either removed Roxio in a manner that was an incomplete uninstall with a bad uninstaller or removed it and forgot to grab a few registry keys that remained that stated that it was still installed.

With this tool I quickly found the Roxio entries that were orphan from HP and removed them. Rebooted the system and then I was able to install Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 and it worked perfect after that.

Only problem is that this pruner was made about 15 years ago and I have doubts that it would work correctly with Windows 10. And sadly Karen the PROGRAMMER passed away after a long fight with diabetes so unable to check with her to see if her program would work with Win 10.

Hopefully a clean install of 10 will fix this for you.

Here is her tool for anyone who may need to clean up registry problems with older versions of Windows:

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Karen's Registry Pruner is a small, easy to use and effective software which can be very helpful in cleaning the unwanted registry files. This registry pruner software searches for all types of orphaned registry entries in Windows OPERATING system and removes them in a very effective way. The software can also be used to scan for the shared DLL files as well as the deletion of ghost entries present in the Control panel’s Add/Remove program applet on the user’s operating system. The software helps the users to easily get rid of orphaned registry entries which can otherwise be the main cause behind the malfunctioning of install and uninstall programs. Orphaned entries are also responsible for triggering annoying ‘Registry Corrupted’ error messages. The main advantage of using Karen's Registry Pruner is that it is a complete freeware. Therefore the users don’t have to worry about annoying nag screens and trial period expiration. Furthermore, the software is compatible with almost all the known versions of windows such as 98, 2000, XP, NT, ME.

  http://karen-s-registry-pruner.software.informer.com/2.5/In fact it seems that Karen's  has stoped being developed long time ago. I'll make a clean install. No matter the fact that win10 is more reliable than his older brothers, it's being in my machine for too much time. Time to go. This is not going to help, but I just want to say something anyway. Companies like AutoCAD have a lot invested in the development of their product and are very concerned about any attempt users make to try to distribute copies of the product and violate the end-user license agreement.
When a program like AutoCAD sees that there has been a recent installation, it may interpret this as a failed attempt to copy the program onto a different computer.
I do not have experience with AutoCAD, but I have had some experience with companies that are very diligent about protecting their copyrights. Sometimes they go to unreasonable extremes to prevent someone from making a new installation without going through all the requirements.. In other words, I am trying to defend AutoCAD and the other companies for their very restrictive rules about how you reinstall or backup their software.
Ideally, there should be some way you could reinstall any program without triggering a copyright protection flag. Sad to say, this issue seems to be a problem with many.
Anyway, I just want to put in my two cents worth.
If you have the original registration material that goes with AutoCAD you should be able to do a clean installation and everything go all right.
In my case it was not AutoCAD but another program that is rather pricey. I wanted to reinstall my entire system on another hard drive and just thought I could image it to another hard drive and that would be the end of the issue. Well, that didn't quite work right. It took quite an effort to get this high-priced program to work right on a drive that had been imaged.

Anyway, I hope you get the problem fixed.   
I've just made a format. I'm going now to install all my stuff, starting with antivirus and firewall. Time for AutoCad will arive (as I already said , I'm using a legal Student Version Quote from: antalves on November 11, 2016, 06:41:07 PM
... Time for AutoCad will arive (as I already said , I'm using a legal Student Version
I did not mean to suggest you we redoing anything wrong,. I was trying to say that AutoCad is just too fussy bout some things that should not have to be so hard.

I like the position Microsoft has taken. If something does not look right, you have 30 days to get it right. More software companies should try that.


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