Installer corrupts on with no D drive

Hello,
I have created an installer for my LabVIEW application.
Most computers at my work has D: drive as hdd-partition reserved for installed programs.
For this reason, I decided to use D:\ in my installer default installation directory (see attachment).
However, there are some computer which use letter D: for DVD, CD device.
In such a case, my installer corrupts with the message in attachment.
I dont want to change the default directory out of D: drive (because it is more convenient in most cases) and i dont want to create two separate installers, one for C: drive and one for D: drive.
Is there any way how to resolve my problem? For example if there is no valid D: drive on the computer, then the installer will reset the default installation directory to C:\Program Files without crash.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Martin Vlček
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RavensFan wrote:
That's a good idea Bill.
Actually, for a machine that only has a single harddrive (c, you should be able to map (d to it as well. I haven't done it in a very long time, but I think you can map multiple letters to the same physical drive.
Wow, I never thought of that. If you dont hear from me in about a month, it's because I had to reformat my hard drive.
edit: nope, not gonna try it.
Bill
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