Installers not starting from outside OS drive


  1. Posts : 39
    Windows 7 Pro x64
       #1

    Installers not starting from outside OS drive


    I have some installers that worked fine in XP but don't install when run from outside the OS partition.

    All 4 I tried should be NSIS-type installers(but it does not apply to all NSIS installers, the Imgburn one runs fine outside OS partition):
    mkx.y.9.exe - Haali Media Splitter
    SetupDVDDecrypter_3.5.4.0.exe
    wa5_coloreditor_2_2_0.exe - Wianmp Color Editor
    WaSDP_1.11.exe - Winamp Skin Dev Pack

    From the event log, it seems to be some ntdll.dll fault.

    But they install if I move the problem installers to the OS partition.
    By the way, I'm on Win7 Pro x64.
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  2. Posts : 1,614
    Windows 7 Pro & Vista Home Premium
       #2

    outside the OS partition
    Could you explain that a little better?

    You can use Universal Extractor to extract the contents pg these files.
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  3. Posts : 39
    Windows 7 Pro x64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    reghakr said:
    outside the OS partition
    Could you explain that a little better?
    I have 3 hard drives in my computer.
    The Win7 partition is on one hard drive.
    The downloaded files are in a partition on a second hard drive.
    The said installers are part of the downloaded files.

    I want to know why they can't run from there in Win7 but is able to run from there in the older XP.
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  4. Posts : 1,614
    Windows 7 Pro & Vista Home Premium
       #4

    Have you trued Running as Administrator
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  5. Posts : 39
    Windows 7 Pro x64
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Tried running it as admin.
    The problem persists.

    As said in the first post, the installers run fine if moved to the OS partition (e.g C:/)
    But why they run fine outside the OS partition in XP?
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  6. Posts : 39
    Windows 7 Pro x64
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Ok, I finally solved this one.
    Its strange but on more fiddling I found out that the said installers only refuse to run in that one folder.
    They run fine in another folder on the same HDD.

    Perhaps its some path corruption when I was setting the path of the Downloads user folder to that folder.

    I solved it by moving the files to another folder then deleting the old folder.
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