I have a brand new game that has a label that the system requirement is
WindowsXP. My new Acer computer came with Vista Home Premium and only a dvd
burner/player and it is labeled as drive E. The game instructions assume a
drive D on the computer but there is none.
Any attempt at installing results in a pop up windows that reads:
"invalid drive". Any way to change the drive letter on the computer at least
temporarily? Or, anyway to install a game that wants a
CD drive? Thanks

"Bill Walsh" wrote in message
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I have a brand new game that has a label that the system requirement is
WindowsXP. My new Acer computer came with Vista Home Premium and only a dvd
burner/player and it is labeled as drive E. The game instructions assume a
drive D on the computer but there is none.
Any attempt at installing results in a pop up windows that reads:
"invalid drive". Any way to change the drive letter on the computer at
least temporarily? Or, anyway to install a game that wants a
CD drive? Thanks
You'd be better off checking with EA Support for this. I've installed and
ran TW Golf through v.2008 on my Vista notebook with no problem.
If you want to try changing your DVD drive letter (assuming you don't
already have a D: drive), go to Start, Run, and enter diskmgmt.msc, then
right-click on you DVD drive, pick Change Drive Letter, Change, and under
Assign Drive Letter pick D. See what happens on the install then.

SC Tom

Hi,

Just substitute E: where it mentions D:. The instructions (wrongly) assume
that your optical drive is lettered D:, when in fact it is likely that D: is
your recovery partition and your optical drive is E:.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Bill Walsh" wrote in message
...
I have a brand new game that has a label that the system requirement is
WindowsXP. My new Acer computer came with Vista Home Premium and only a dvd
burner/player and it is labeled as drive E. The game instructions assume a
drive D on the computer but there is none.
Any attempt at installing results in a pop up windows that reads:
"invalid drive". Any way to change the drive letter on the computer at
least temporarily? Or, anyway to install a game that wants a
CD drive? Thanks

Hello again. Sorry to report that failed to read your entire letter.
I used the diskmgmt.msc program, but there was no "D" drive available;
reason: the C drive on this computer had a virtual
D drive named "Data". I say had because now the Virtual D drive has
disappered. I tried system restore using 2 days ago as a starting point, but
the D drive did not come back. The computer seems to operate ok but I am
curious as to what happened.
Any help greatly appreciated. Bill W.

"SC Tom" wrote in message
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"Bill Walsh" wrote in message
...
I have a brand new game that has a label that the system requirement is
WindowsXP. My new Acer computer came with Vista Home Premium and only a
dvd burner/player and it is labeled as drive E. The game instructions
assume a drive D on the computer but there is none.
Any attempt at installing results in a pop up windows that reads:
"invalid drive". Any way to change the drive letter on the computer at
least temporarily? Or, anyway to install a game that wants a
CD drive? Thanks
You'd be better off checking with EA Support for this. I've installed and
ran TW Golf through v.2008 on my Vista notebook with no problem.
If you want to try changing your DVD drive letter (assuming you don't
already have a D: drive), go to Start, Run, and enter diskmgmt.msc, then
right-click on you DVD drive, pick Change Drive Letter, Change, and under
Assign Drive Letter pick D. See what happens on the install then.

SC Tom

Managed to recover the Virtual D drive which indeed is the backup. My son
told me some program is running that interferes with the E Drive install. He
shut down everything else, and behold, the golf game showed an installation
screen that led to it's installing on the C Drive. Now everything is working
and I am still puzzled. Must be old age.
"Rick Rogers" wrote in message
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Hi,

Just substitute E: where it mentions D:. The instructions (wrongly) assume
that your optical drive is lettered D:, when in fact it is likely that D:
is your recovery partition and your optical drive is E:.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Bill Walsh" wrote in message
...
I have a brand new game that has a label that the system requirement is
WindowsXP. My new Acer computer came with Vista Home Premium and only a
dvd burner/player and it is labeled as drive E. The game instructions
assume a drive D on the computer but there is none.
Any attempt at installing results in a pop up windows that reads:
"invalid drive". Any way to change the drive letter on the computer at
least temporarily? Or, anyway to install a game that wants a
CD drive? Thanks