I recently installed an add-on Blu-Ray Recorder on my Dell desktop machine here at work, and I had some troubles. You might too.
The physical installation went fine, although they didn’t include a SATA cable in the box with the drive, which I found annoying. If you’re buying one of these, keep in mind you need to pick up a cable as well unless you’re ditching your existing optical drive.
When I went to install the Power2Go 7.0 software that was pre-packaged with the drive – so that I can actually burn Blu-Ray discs – I got a popup error:
Error 1327.Invalid Drive Y:
“Weird”, thought I. I have Offline Folders set up on this desktop pointing my documents folder at a server, and that folder is mapped as drive Y. Well, it can occasionally happen that software developers hard-code a drive letter in their installation (bad practice, boo!) for use as a virtual drive, so I disconnected the mapped drive and tried again. Still no dice.
It turns out that if you have Offline Folders set up, even if the drive is not connected, the Power2Go installer borks. Turning off Offline Folders isn’t enough to fix it, because the Offline Folders setup, itself, leaves registry keys in the registry even after you turn off Offline Folders. You actually have to run the registry editor and remove the legacy entries for the drive mappings to get the installer to not freak out. Be cautious when you run the registry editor, as you can brick your machine.
Click Start, and then click Run. In the Open field, type regedit, and then click OK. The Registry Editor opens.
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In the Registry Editor, locate the following registry key:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
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In the right pane, note the values in the Data column of each entry. Find the legacy entry for your Offline Folder entry and delete it.
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Repeat for each of the following registry key:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
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Close the Registry Editor and run the installation again.
