Installing Program Requiring Specific Drive Letter
Article ID: 167963
Article Last Modified on 11/15/2006
APPLIES TO
Microsoft Windows 95
This article was previously published under Q167963
SUMMARY
This article describes how to install a program that is designed to run
from a network server using a specific mapped drive letter on a local
drive instead of a network server.
MORE INFORMATION
To install the program locally, use one of the following methods:
Method 1
NOTE: This method uses DriveSpace and does not work on drives using the
FAT32 file system. For additional information, see the following article
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
150579 DriveSpace Is Not Supported with FAT32 Drives
Click the Start button, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point
to System Tools, and then click DriveSpace.
On Advanced menu, click Create Empty.
In the Create New Compressed Drive dialog box, assign the drive letter
required by the program in the Create A New Drive Named box.
Click Start.
Click Close.
Install the program to the new compressed drive.
Method 2
Use the SUBST command to associate the required drive letter with the
program's installation folder. For example, use
subst <drive>: <C:\dir>
where <drive> is the drive the program requires to be mapped to, and
<C:\dir> is the folder in which the program resides.
NOTE: You should install Windows 95 Service Pack 1 if you are using the
SUBST command and you have the retail release of Windows 95. If you have
an OEM release of Windows 95, this update may already be included in your
version of Windows 95. For information about obtaining Service Pack 1, see
the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
142794 Availability of Microsoft Windows 95 Service Pack 1
For additional information about issues that can occur when you use the
SUBST command, see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
137529 Cannot Use DriveSpace to Compress a Substituted Drive