I installed some work-related software some months back. The install didn’t quite work but I hadn’t had time to troubleshoot it. So today I tried to re-install.
Well, I originally installed it on the external drive. No biggie, supposedly. Only the new reinstall is failing because “appears to be installed on your machine but we couldn’t find it”. And when I tried to remove it via Control Panel Add/Remove, I get a message saying “Invalid drive F:”. My external drive is now G:. I guess it must have been appearing as drive F 6 months ago.
Is there any way to force the computer to find the software on drive G for uninstall purposes? or, to force it to recognize that external drive as F:?
Assuming it’s Windows XP - Control Panel, Computer Management, Administrative Tools, Disk Management, right-click on the drive, and change the drive letter. You need admin rights to do this, but I bet you’ve got them. If something’s already using F:, you’ll need to move that first.
For devices that I want to remain consistently available as the same drive letter (for example so that a one-click backup process continues to work), I usually give myself a bit of breathing space and call them Q: or something - because the drive letters lower down can get messed up even when you assign them persistent letters - if you start adding new hardware.
