Uninstallation of LabView 6.1 fails due to invalid drive error

[garrapito]

I have LabView 6.1, NI Drivers and VISA installed in my Windows XP Professional. I did a full software installation moths ago. Now I am trying to install LabView 8.5 and the new drivers require previous versions to be removed.

This yields a problem, trying to unistall 6.1 it turns out that buil-in uninstallation fails because of my Program Files being all installed in my main Windows unit device labelled with an F: letter. Uninstaller looks for a typical C: letter and fails. Is it not possible to change letters from Windows main unit devices (without risk).

How can I uninstall the software from my computer?

[muks]

try this

[GerdW]

Hi,

you could also search for msiblast here in the forum or on NI's website in general...

[smercurio_fc]

What is a "Windows main unit device"? Are you referring to the system drive? Why would that have a drive letter of F: in the first place? Or, do you have the system drive (the one that has Windows) as C:, and have the "Program Files" on another drive/partition (in your case F:)?

[garrapito]

Thank you for all your replies 🙂

1) Neither "Revouninstaller" nor "Free Uninstaller" seem to work. NI packages appear again after uninstalling them using the programme. This also happens with  ther Windows Ass/Remove software tool, though the latter is more inefficient (some package uninstallations are automatically aborted). I have been unable to uninstall any package with this methods.

2) I will try msiblast, I saw a thread in the forum of people with similar problems. I will report the results tomorrow.

3) Sorry, I meant my system drive partition. It is F: because of complicated problems that arised during a Linux Xubuntu + Windows XP dual boot installation. I had to put Xubuntu first and this yielded trouble.