Installing getting error 1327 invaild e drive

[Michele]

I am having an issue installing spyware on my home pc. I
installed at work and it worked perfectly. I keep getting
an error 1327 telling me I have an invalid e drive. I was
using an external hard drive at one point, but it is not
connected at this time. Anyone else having this issue??

 

[Noah]

I have the same problem. Did the external drive happen to
ba a Maxtor HD?

 

[Brad]

I have encountered this problem this morning as well when
trying to install spyware software. My error referred to
drive b: which made me suspicious, becuase some time ago,
I had a mapped drive called B:\ to one of my network
folders.

I no longer use this drive, and have since deleted the
mapping, however, forgot that at the time I had changed
the default path for Internet Explorer Favorites to
B:\favorites (requires change in registry).

When installer loads for spyware software it must query
this path, and in my case found that it doesn't exist.

A simple change to the registry fixed this problem for me
in no time.

[HKEY CURRENT
USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Use
r Shell Folders]
Set the Favorites path to : %USERPROFILE%\Favorites

The above should be a REG_EXPAND_SZ value, not REG_SZ

Using the "Find" command in the registry editor I also
found several other references to B:\ that I had
overlooked and fixed these up as well. Although it was
definitely the favorites folder that caused my spyware
installation problem.

Brad

 

[brandongrant]

External Hard Drive Issues

I also had this same problem. A few weeks ago I installed an external hard drive and set My Music and My Pictures to come from the E: (external) instead of the Default C: drive. So anytime I wanted to install any software it said that I would have the error 1327.

How I fixed it was by going into the registry and changing it back to the original.

[HKEY CURRENT USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]

Instead of it being E:\My Documents
It should be %USERPROFILE%\My Documents

 

[kim12230]

I have encountered this problem this morning as well when
trying to install spyware software. My error referred to
drive b: which made me suspicious, becuase some time ago,
I had a mapped drive called B:\ to one of my network
folders.

I no longer use this drive, and have since deleted the
mapping, however, forgot that at the time I had changed
the default path for Internet Explorer Favorites to
B:\favorites (requires change in registry).

When installer loads for spyware software it must query
this path, and in my case found that it doesn't exist.

A simple change to the registry fixed this problem for me
in no time.

[HKEY CURRENT
USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Use
r Shell Folders]
Set the Favorites path to : %USERPROFILE%\Favorites

The above should be a REG_EXPAND_SZ value, not REG_SZ

Using the "Find" command in the registry editor I also
found several other references to B:\ that I had
overlooked and fixed these up as well. Although it was
definitely the favorites folder that caused my spyware
installation problem.

Brad

>-----Original Message-----
>I have the same problem. Did the external drive happen to
>ba a Maxtor HD?
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I am having an issue installing spyware on my home pc.
I
>>installed at work and it worked perfectly. I keep
>getting
>>an error 1327 telling me I have an invalid e drive. I
>was
>>using an external hard drive at one point, but it is not
>>connected at this time. Anyone else having this issue??
>>.
>>
>.
>

Hi I am a complete novice, I did the above and to clear the drive e error, it didnt work although deleting items on drive e through the search did, however I then lost internet explorer, I reset IE and now have it back but it is locked on "about blank" have tried changing this on tools but it just reverts back, also I cannot download any files vie IE as I get the message "windows cannot access the specified device path or file, you may not have permission to access the item" Help!! please it wont even open PDF documents