iTunes not installing, invalid drive?
Well here's another technical issue for ya. As per the screenshot - you try to install iTunes and it says "Invalid drive: E:\" or F: or what have you. Usually happens when you install iTunes onto a portable hard drive, or something like that.
How you cheat it is, again, with the Command Prompt. So:
- Start -> Run -> "cmd"
- "subst e: %TEMP%" (where "e:" is whatever drive is causing the problem)
- Try installing again
That should solve it.
The more technical reason is:
- Somewhere in the registry, it's told to look at E: drive for iTunes stuff
- E: normally doesn't exist (portable hard drive & all)
- So it gives an error
- "subst" says "pretend that e: is this directory (usually C:\Temp)"
- Cheated!
Obviously, plugging in that portable hard drive and installing would be the easiest way to do it.
Now I think of it.
Bleh.
Labels: computing
posted by Jo at 12:12 am
8 Comments:
Totally worked...WOW. Thanks!
You're most welcome! Glad that this is helping other people, and not just for my own personal reference. :P
Thanks so much, this has helped me very much! i wish you all the best!
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I stumbled across this and appreciate it a lot. But, it isn't working for me. I'm typing in your suggestion in the control panel. I am having the "E" drive error and I know it is because I installed iTunes on an H drive. It all stopped working last fall and I'm trying to repair it now. Any other thoughts o tips? Thank you.
Hi there,
Are you sure you're typing:
subst h: %TEMP%
into the Command Prompt?
It should work, but things might have changed in the last year.
Which version of Windows are you using?
YOU FREAKING ROCK!!! IT TOTALLY WORKED FOR ME TOO!!!
It's works ! Thank you!
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