SOLVED Secondary Hardrive Failure

[Kershar]

About a year ago I upgraded to an SSD, but because of its size I couldn't fit all my programs on, so I installed any program, that I didn't need the extra speed, on a second hard drive. Problem is that the second hard drive has now had a complete and total fail. It is dead. Now when I try to uninstall or install any of the programs, that were on that drive, I get an error saying that the drive is missing.

How do I clean up this so I can install these programs to a new hard drive?

 

[Digerati]

You need to run the installation for those programs again. That will change all the file location entries in Registry to the new locations.

 

[Kershar]

When I run the installation again, it gives me the same error message. (Error 1327. Invalid Drive: K:\ )

My main drive is C and I haven't changed its letter.

I think it has something to do with the installation think the default drive it should be installing on is K instead of C. Because it is happening when the installation is computing space requirements.

 

[TrainableMan]

The old installation information is probably stored in the registry. If you aren't willing to pick through the registry looking for K: then you might try a removal tool like Revo Uninstaller. Then you can run the uninstalls from Revo & even after it gets an error tell Revo to run an indepth scan and with any luck it will remove the old registry entries.

 

[Kershar]

Thanks that did the job perfectly

 

[TrainableMan]

you're welcome. glad it worked out for you.