Oracle XE (windows) on drive other than C:\

Hi,
I have loaded XE on a windows 2008 server. I was restricted to installing it on the N: drive. Install went fine, and everything seems to be working. However i run XE as part of an automated build job. The job causes an XE problem (something like DB already started or something...) which the build job ignores, but XE wants to do some logging I think.
So, I found the messages below in N:\oraclexe\app\oracle\admin\XE\bdump\alert_xe.log
Errors in file n:\oraclexe\app\oracle\admin\xe\bdump\xe_dbw0_1624.trc:
ORA-01157: cannot identify/lock data file 1 - see DBWR trace file
ORA-01110: data file 1: 'C:\ORACLEXE\ORADATA\XE\SYSTEM.DBF'
ORA-27041: unable to open file
OSD-04002: unable to open file
O/S-Error: (OS 3) The system cannot find the path specified.
Thu Mar 24 11:08:45 2011
Errors in file n:\oraclexe\app\oracle\admin\xe\bdump\xe_dbw0_1624.trc:
ORA-01157: cannot identify/lock data file 2 - see DBWR trace file
ORA-01110: data file 2: 'C:\ORACLEXE\ORADATA\XE\UNDO.DBF'
ORA-27041: unable to open file
OSD-04002: unable to open file
O/S-Error: (OS 3) The system cannot find the path specified.
So my question is do I have to set an environment variable so that nothing looks to C:\ or are these type of values (C:\ORACLEXE\ORADATA\XE) hard coded?
Thanks for any info!
Bernie

Unless maybe an earlier install attempt left stuff in the registry ... if the database never got a successful startup on the N: files, installer didn't complete all its tasks, I think there's quite a few installer tasks after the instance is created.
Take a look at the manual deinstall steps, its probably worth going through all the uninstall steps, especially the registry cleanup and give it another try...
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B25329_01/doc/install.102/b25143/toc.htm#BABFFJIB

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