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"Invalid Destination Drive Specified" When In |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
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Solutions: The following are troubleshooting options for the message "Invalid Destination Drive Specified" that appears while installing WP: 1. Check for any files named WP51. In one situation a customer received this message because there was a file on the hard drive named the same as the directory the customer was trying to create. The customer can either delete or rename the file, or use a different directory name. Also check for additional WP51 directories and WP.EXE files. 2. See if the customer is trying to install WP to a hidden directory. One customer received this message and others such as "Disk Full - Press Any Key ..." and " 3. Check the number of files in the root directory. One user received this error because there were 510 files in the root directory. Deleting some of these files corrected the error. 4. Try deleting the WP51 directory and letting the installation program create it. The customer can also try installing WP on another drive or under a different directory name. 5. Check the path the customer is installing to if the customer is using the Custom Install option. Sometimes customers will get this error message if they are trying to install WP to a directory that doesn't exist. 6. See if the customer has enough disk space to install WP. One customer ran CHKDSK and found that there were 0 bytes free on the hard drive. After the customer freed up some space on the hard drive, the customer was able to install WP without receiving the "Invalid Destination Drive Specified For Install" error message. 7. If the customer is using a VM 386 Virtual network system, try removing it until the installation program installs WP. According to Brother customer support, the VM 386 Virtual network sets up the host machine's hard drive so that multiple least can access the hard drive simultaneously. The initialization batch files can cause problems with program installations. 8. Try installing from a different drive. One customer got this error message while installing a printer driver from the A: drive. The customer was able to install the driver from a network drive. 9. See if the destination directory is flagged incorrectly. One customer found he had flagged the WP51 directory as a system directory. Once the customer removed that flag using the FLAGDIR SYSTEM command, the customer could install WP. 10. Look for a directory called WP.PIF. One customer had such a directory and solved the problem by deleting it. |
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