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I got TurboTax this tax season but was greeted with an error message before I could even get the install past the first step. TurboTax reports an error
Turbotax installation has encountered an unrecoverable error. Would you like more information on this error?
Clicking on the more info button take you to an Intuit knowledgebase, where they acknowledge that this error occurs sometimes and one can register to be informed when a a fix is posted.
(Update 2012-02-04 Intuit have indentified the problem – read more here)
I really needed to get a jump on my taxes this year. H&R Block Taxcut software did not contain the forms necessary for me to claim my Electric Vehicle credit, so I turned to TurboTax only to get this error. Rather than wait for Intuit to post a fix, I overcame the error by installing the software instead onto a XPMode virtual machine. If you encounter the TurboTax error and have Windows 7 Professional or better then XP Mode is your workaround.
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