Invalid drive error makes updating or uninstalling impossible

Windows Vista Home Premium
The installer, and uninstaller, is looking for drive I on my now fried and and repartiioned My Book drive. I tried something called the MSI installer that didn't work. There is no obvious way to configure what drives AR uses.  So now what besides never updating or a clean Windows install, like sure?

Please try either of the workaround.
1. Create a new Admin user, log on in that and then you can install Adobe Reader,
or
2. easier solution is just create a dummy folder on your machine anywhere, lets says Folder name "Dummy"  in c:\
not go to command prompt
and type subst I: c:\dummy
and you are all set to go.
once you are done, you can remove that virtual drive mapping by
subst I:\  /d
please let me know if works.

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