Installations default to H: drive which I can't connect to!!!

Lightattheend

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The software is on the dongle afaik, therefore it will allocate a drive letter to the usb drive in windows, on that drive will be the installer, so look in explorer for the temporary drive letter e: F etc when you plug the dongle in, on there will be the autorun, possibly a launcher or setup.exe, and maybe an msi file, run it after doing the subst.

If windows installer is pointing to the h drive, then using the subst will or should hopefully override this little quirk of windows installer.

If it still doesn't work, post your regscan up again.

back to your h hard disk, does it work on your sons machine? by work I mean allocate a drive letter, and all files are visible.

Its actually called the O2 dongle so do I still put h: and c: in the subst string?

The h hard drive doesn't work on my son's PC either now, it does the same as mine - says its installing the device drivers but doesn't connect.

I really appreciate you're help

Lightattheend

Well looking at my laptop, I now have a copy of my Vista on the h:drive - really confused now as I don't know what that is!

closed

how old is the external hard disk, which brand?

when you do the subst, it sets up a pointer to c, for h, so they are the same thing, it's just a pointer so that windows installer doesn't fail because it can't see the h drive. ie pretend h exists, and point it at the root of c

d is where the software is, which you should be running.

Lightattheend

The hard drive is a Maxtor and is only 2 years old at most.

I've tried re installing but still don't get past the same point, doesn't actually open the install wizard after the connection manager prepares it - still get the same error message (Error 1327.Invalid Drive: H:\).

closed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327763

Lightattheend

Trying to do this but trying to create a restore point first and I get an error message for that! Tried doing the scan and clean from the command prompt as suggested in Microsoft support and although it ran the scan, I still get the error message 0x8004230F when trying to create a restore point (the shadow copy provider had an unexpected error while trying to process the specified operation). Think I'm going to give up and go camping a day early to get away from it!!!! :rotfl::rotfl:

closed

The easiest thing to do is to go through the h: 's in the registry and change the h: to c:, should take about 3 minutes.

If the paths point to a directory make sure it exists.

Lightattheend

closed wrote: »

The easiest thing to do is to go through the h: 's in the registry and change the h: to c:, should take about 3 minutes.

If the paths point to a directory make sure it exists.

Actually tried this, followed the information in that link you gave me and the only files I could find pointing to the h: drive were my picture files! So think its somewhere else within the registry maybe?

closed

you had quite a few in the regscanner scan

Lightattheend

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you had quite a few in the regscanner scan

I only went through the ones in that list in the link, think I might need to rerun the regscanner and find them all again.