Adobe Flash issue

[Engels]

Well, I've scoured the Adobe forums, and no answers seem available, even though many users report the same issue. So I've come to f13, since there are folks with smarts about the place.

Essentially, when I try to upgrade my flash player, the installer reports there's insufficient space on my drive, even tho I have over 200 gigs of space available.

I think the root cause is that my Windows partition is drive D, whereas the Adobe Flash installer is looking for drive C, and failing to find it.

Anyone else found a work around? I'm a bit tired of my flash9b.ocx errors.

[Yegolev]

Hmmm, does the old subst command work in XP?  I do assume you are using WinXP.

[Engels]

Yep, I'm running WinXP Pro.

What does subst command do for a living?

[Yegolev]

Basically it's a DOS command that aliases a directory as a drive letter.  Great for making games think you were running from a floppy.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/subst.mspx

EDIT: fix link

[Engels]

Ah, yes. In fact, one of the suggested work arounds was to map my drive D to a 'fictional' C:\ drive, but unfortunately, I already have another partition named C. I could rename that partition, but since its part of a dual boot system, I'm not sure if the bootloader would be happy with that solution either. In any case, thanks for giving it a stab. I think it's probably just a matter of time before they put out an installer that doesn't hard code the install path.

[Trippy]

You can get a hex editor and try hacking the executable directly. I see a string in there:

C:\Program Files

which looks suspiciously like a hard-coded path.

[Lantyssa]

I've been trying to remember the subst command for ages!  I wanted to install Syndicate and couldn't remember how to do it.  Thanks.

Engels, subst is a logical command so it won't cause any problems.  Drive letter allocation using XP's Disk Manager should be okay as well since other OSs should pick drives based on physical ordering.  (I don't deal with dual boot system though.  Can anyone confirm or trash that idea before he takes my word for it?)  Just don't reassign your XP boot drive or you create a headache for yourself.

[Engels]

See, that's where I got myself into a tangle; to cut a long story short, my boot sector is on The drive XP knows as D, but references two OS, one on D, one on C.  The C drive used to hold a WinXP 64-bit edition, but I deleted that and now its simple storage. Well, I thought to myself, I'll simply do an msconfig, and run that little path clean up utility on the boot.ini tab. But for whatever reason, that tab's missing in my configuration! To further complicate matters, the D drive (the system drive) is on a Raid 0 with two physical hard drives. Makes me reluctant to start mucking about with it.

[Yegolev]

At this point, I'd do the hex-edit suggestion.

[Engels]

I'll play with it. Any suggestions for a free hex editor?

[Trippy]

I'll play with it. Any suggestions for a free hex editor?

For changing text strings in "binary" files and light duty hex editing (hexl-mode) I just use Emacs. For more intensive hex editing I've used Hackman in the past.

[Yegolev]

I use XVI32.  Pretty sure I used Hackman once, and Axe as well.

[Engels]

Well, I downloaded GNU Emacs for W32, then opened up the flash installer in it. I found only one entry for C:\Program Files\etc and changed that to D:

I saved it, ran it, and I got the same error, except this time, it does say D: instead of C:

Somewhere else embedded in that mess must be other references to C:. Unfortunately, I'm not clever enough to discern where a c: referenced in the code may be a drive designation or some other aspect of the code.