Also this fix brings up another problem, 2 different drive volume pointing to the same volume. If you unmount the fake volume then the initial problem rise again.
One other thing that is important are the environment variables Temp and Tmp that maybe they are changed for some reason.
The default should be
%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp
and
%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Tmp.

Thanks

Thanks a lot! This problem doesn’t let RDP works. Thanks again!

Worked for me too. Used subst option. Cool.

Works like a charm!

Thanks a lot it helps me on win xp with the quicktime setup!!

It should be noted that sometimes when this does not work or you fail to find an incorrect key that the problem may be found in a current install folder. In my case i was installing Napoleon Total War which requires the Steam program. Steam was already on my computer but was installed when i had an External HDD attached. No reg key problem in the main places you described but i did find one in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432node\Valve\Steam under the entry of Install Path. It was routeing my install to the non-existent E Drive.

Thank you for your help on this matter, without this i wouldnt have been able to get close enough to the problem area and find my version to the solution!

you’re welcome! Here’s our donation page if you’d consider donating: http://www.out-of-warranty.com/donation/

5 hours and countless websites later and this fixed it! thanks for saving me the $30 I almost spent

Fixed it for me, Win7 Pro. Thanks!

This fixed it for me. Iam using Windows Vista.

Thank you so much! Im running both on vista and Windows 7 and your solution fixed my error 1327 invalid drive! Thank you so much!

Thanks for this… there was an external hard drive that had been moved to another machine, leaving some cruft in the registry.

The fix seemed to be working–I’m on Windows 7, 32-Bit, but then I got a new error message: Invalid Drive E

Can’t load CLScan.dll

What the heck?

I will pay this one forward, my friend. This was an annoying little problem that I never had time to figure out. I used to keep all my files on one computer, and one system kept looking there for files after it was retired. I would have to run down to the basement, boot up the old computer and connect it to the network. Everything works properly now! Yay!

Solved after a restart.

Hi, I did the subst thing and now I have drive D and E with the same content, but in disk manager appears only the real drive D with the original data. How can I delete the virtual drive E?

the solution didnt work for me but the ulitmate fix did help.
thank you!!

HI NIkolai,
very stupidly halfway though upgrading my laptop from vista to windows 7 i turned off my cpu. I lost tons of files all in “my documents” when i try to access it, it has said invalid drive E: I tried both of your fixes, first the substitute, then using the regedit and found a few instances(one under Personal) to change from E to C. I was very excited thinking that maybe I’ll get my pc back, because ever since when I go to uninstall a program or install new programs I get this invalid error. I’ve just got back into the pc and tried to uninstall Nero which has never worked before because of this invalid error code and it won’t let me delete it because of error code 2203. I’m still trying to access the old “my documents” but it says permission not allowed and when I try to change permission it won’t let me. Any ideas?

Nik

This didn’t work for me at all. Neither of the fixes worked Win7 64bit ASUS laptop. I was successful in subst G for C and now both letters will bring up the same directories. But when I tried to reinstall my Sony Vegas I still got the Invalid Drive G message;

Looked in the registry and saw nothing but C: pathe and %PUBLIC% and other percentage sign paths. What can I do?? Help!

thnx bdy i worked like a charm