First i want to thank everyone for their help. it appears i may have found the issue. in the security tab of the os drive properties i found a user that was named "trustedinstaller" just for grins i checked the permissions that it had and it only had read permissions.. Click the windows menu button or press the windows button on the keyboard. in the start search box, type cmd , right-click the cmd.exe item at the top, and then select run as administrator . at the command prompt, type the following command, and then press enter:. In windows explorer, navigate to the folder that contains the data1.msi file. right-click the data1.msi file, and then click properties . in the data1.msi properties dialog box, click to clear the read-only check box under attributes , and then click ok ..
The windows installer seems to lock the folder during the extraction process and therefore the contents cannot be written to the same folder. share | improve this answer answered aug 6 '14 at 17:44. In explorer windows click organize > folder and search option. enable hidden files and folders and system files. and un-check hide protected operating system files. Internal error 2203.c:windowsinstaller: cannot open database file. the above error indicates that an issue with the windows installer service needs to be resolved.
