Error 1324: The path My Documents contains an invalid character

[Guest]

Over the past week, I have tried several ways to get WD to install. I have
downloaded it to the Desktop, to My Documents, and even to my Program Files
Folder.

I am running Windows XP Pro w/ SP2 and all the latest MS updates.

I have disabled my Anti-virus program while trying to install. I was told by
one person that I should uninstall my Zonelabs Zonealarm firewall and use MS
firewall, which I have done.

I have checked the My Documents path, and I see no invalid characters.

I have run Spybot S&D and Lavasoft Ad-aware to see if there may be spyware
causing this problem, but scans come up clean.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for trying to help, Engel, but neither of the posts helped.

The first one about checking the Registry showed both items as a value of 0.
The only other item under Filesystem in the registry is
Win95TruncatedExtensions which is set to 1. I have considered changing this
to 0, but since I don't know what it would do, I am refraining from doing so
at this time.

The second one was about Win NT 4.0 and invalid Usernames. I do not have
"Windows on Wall Street" installed, nor does my Username have a forward slash
(/) or any punctuation mark for that matter.

Any further assistance will be greatly appreciated.

grtdrgn

 

[Guest]

Well, I think I may have found my problem. After you posted those 2 knowledge
base articles, I did my own search. One article I found was more generic. It
stated to do a regedit and search for the offending folder name through the
registry. When I began the search, I started finding several instances where
the "My Documents" folder pointed to a different drive.

Apparently, I have "My Documents" showing on drives C:\, D:\, and E:\.

So, best thing I can think of to do is to backup my files, wipe and
reinstall fresh. Thank you for your time.

grtdrgn

 

[Guest]

Hi grtdrgn,

No Prºblem,
Thanks for letting us know.
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