Error 1327.Invalid Drive when installing

[Qythyx]

In Vista, I'm trying to install Visio Professional 2007 and after a few
minutes of the setup running I get this error:

Error 1327.Invalid Drive: R:\


I'm 99% sure the cause of this is that I have relocatied my user folders
like Documents, Music, etc to a network drive. Aside from remapping them back
to a local drive is there anyway to workaround this problem?

BTW, MS, I'd label this as a bug.

 

[Aaron Rykhus [MSFT]]

Have you checked the knowledge base....there's many articles on 1327 errors
like the one below:

873301 You receive a "Error 1327. Invalid Drive... " error message when you
install Office 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;873301


The article also applies to Visio 2003 but it was left off the applies to
section.


Aaron Rykhus, MCP, MCDST
Online Support Engineer
Microsoft Corporation

 

[Qythyx]

I have done some searching both with MS' KB articles and in general and
you're right, there are a numbef or 1327 related articles. Unfortunately,
none of them were a perfect match for my problem.

I confirmed my suspicions by temporarily changing my Document, Music,
Videos, etc folders back to a local drive. After doing this it installed
fine. Unfortunately, this is a pretty inconvenient work around.

 

[Aaron Rykhus [MSFT]]

I redirect the Documents and Music... Start menu shortcuts on my Vista
machine to a network drive (R) mapped to a share I have Full Control NTFS
permissions to and Visio 2007 installs without any errors. I must be
missing something....

To redirect, I'm clicking on Start button, right-clicking on Documents and
going to Properties, Location tab, Move button, selecting the desitination
(network drive) and saying No to move files from that location.



Best Regards,

Aaron Rykhus, MCP, MCDST
Online Support Engineer
Microsoft Corporation