Urgent help: Couldnt even install intel fortran compiler.

[nightzip]

I have installed the microsoft visual studio, and was installing the file,
w_cprof_p_11.0.072_ia32.exe, (tried both full installation and custom), and got the following...

"Error 1324. The path My Documents contains an invalid character."
"Error while installing package "D:/......................." Fatal error during installation"

The installation error log shows this

MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: TRANSFORMS property is now:
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding VersionDatabase property. Its value is '200'.
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\Tan Long Bin\Application Data
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\Tan Long Bin\Favorites
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\Tan Long Bin\Recent\NetHood
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\Tan Long Bin\My Documents
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\Tan Long Bin\PrintHood
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\Tan Long Bin\Recent
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\Tan Long Bin\SendTo
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\Tan Long Bin\Templates
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\Tan Long Bin\Local Settings\Application Data
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: F:\My Documents\My Documents\My Pictures
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\Tan Long Bin\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\Tan Long Bin\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\Tan Long Bin\Start Menu\Programs
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\Tan Long Bin\Start Menu
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\Tan Long Bin\Desktop
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Templates
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: SHELL32::SHGetFolderPath returned: C:\WINDOWS\Fonts
MSI (c) (40:0C) [11:10:18:677]: Note: 1: 2898 2: MS Sans Serif 3: MS Sans Serif 4: 0 5: 16


As you can see, one of the "My Documents" is from F drive, how do I manually change this or how do the setup file be able to "rescreen" the location/path of the files again so that installation can progress.

Thanks a lot for the help.

[nightzip]

I have tried to reinstall a couple of times with different destination folders and also rereading the license file,but still unable to, having stop at the same point with the same error message.

[Peter]

Quoting - nightzip

I have tried to reinstall a couple of times with different destination folders and also rereading the license file,but still unable to, having stop at the same point with the same error message.

try this

Make sure you create a restore point before you do the following

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325069



Hope it helps!!