Problem
When installing Microsoft Office from your hard drive you get the following message:
“Error 1327 invalid drive D:\”
The drive letter may be different from what is stated above.
Solution
- Click the Start button. (Windows XP users should then click Run)
- Type regedit and press Enter.
- In the Registry Editor go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ->Software -> Microsoft -> Office -> 11.0 -> Delivery
- Located in this folder there will be 1 or more subfolders, click on each subfolder and look for LocalCacheDrive.
- Right click on LocalCacheDrive and click Modify.
- Change the D (or whatever letter appears in the error) to the letter of the drive you are installing from (e.g. C).
- Close the Registry Editor and try installing Office again.
Now when installing, it may say that it can’t find a “.cab” file. If that happens:
- Click OK and it will bring up a box to search for the file.
- In the Path box, change the drive letter to the same letter as the drive you are installing from and click OK.
Worked, with a slight modification
This did not exist for me, HLM\software\Microsoft\office\11.0, but I searched for “localcachedrive” and found the same structure in a slightly different place. I modified it from F to C (I don’t have an F drive). Office patches went through on the retry without error.
Thank you!
Thanks, your suggestion was helpful! Im on Win 7 so that localcahedrive was in a completely diff location!
work like a charm—many thanks
I went to device manager> disk management and changed the CD ROM drive to the drive letter indicated by the error and it worked OK.