Hydraflow installation error

by Donnie Gladfelter on October 27, 2008

in Civil 3D

clip_image001_thumb4I FINALLY finished writing my AU Power to the Parcel session handout this evening.  Just in time to submit it before today’s deadline.  With another AU deadline behind me I can shift my focus back to this my blog.

A number of my users have really embraced the Civil 3D Hydraflow Extensions.  After making a countless number of installations I finally came across my first real installation error.  Just after starting the install I was confronted with the error “Error 1327. Invalid Drive During Installation.

I’ll be honest, this one took a little research on my part (hence why I am sharing this story in the first place).  Frankly, I’m still not necessarily sure what’s really going on here, but I was finally able to find an Autodesk knowledge base article outlining a solution.

In this case the installation was looking for an E-drive (which this machine was obviously lacking).  After finding the knowledge base article the solution was simple:

  1. Start > Run, enter CMD to open Command Line
  2. At the command line type SUBST Drive Letter: c:\temp (replace Drive Letter with the drive shown in the error.  ex SUBST e: c:\temp)
  3. Re-run the Hydraflow installation

You can read the full Autodesk Knowledge Base Article at the following URL: http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS64914

Tagged as: Civil 3D, Civil 3D Extensions, Hydraflow, Hydrology

  • http://www.thecadgeek.com Donnie Gladfelter

    Doug – Indeed, we have opted to make everyone local admins. Sure there’s some cons to that approach, but it seems to work for us. No less, I did have this same error come up when installing my 09 deployment (which included Hydraflow)

    Look forward to seeing you at AU too!

  • http://thecadgeek.com/ Donnie Gladfelter

    Doug – Indeed, we have opted to make everyone local admins. Sure there’s some cons to that approach, but it seems to work for us. No less, I did have this same error come up when installing my 09 deployment (which included Hydraflow)

    Look forward to seeing you at AU too!

  • http://daa.com Doug Wilson

    Hi Donnie, Your thing on Hydraflow caught my eye. I’ve had some strange errors with Hydraflow related to the fact the the defualt intallation directory was C:\Program files, no sub-folder. Unless users are power users, they can’t write to the root folder which has created some run-time errors for us. I didn’t catch it when I was setting up the image & just thought I would pass it along. I almost signed up for your parcels class but had a conflict. Hope to see you there. Doug

  • http://daa.com/ Doug Wilson

    Hi Donnie, Your thing on Hydraflow caught my eye. I’ve had some strange errors with Hydraflow related to the fact the the defualt intallation directory was C:Program files, no sub-folder. Unless users are power users, they can’t write to the root folder which has created some run-time errors for us. I didn’t catch it when I was setting up the image & just thought I would pass it along. I almost signed up for your parcels class but had a conflict. Hope to see you there. Doug

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