Secondary hard drive died, can't reinstall programs on different drive.

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Had a 1TB hard drive die today that had all my games and movies on it, a lot of other programs also and now I can't reinstall some of them on my other hard drives. I ran registry cleaner in CCleaner but it didn't help at all. Anything I can do?
 
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For many years, after making full image backups of my OS and Data partitions, I have used both Auslogics and Wise registry cleaners mostly with success. Now, I don't know where courage crosses over into foolhardiness, however, I have used Resplendence Registrar Registry Manager to mass-delete -- won some, lost some. Before using RRM, ensure you have made restorable full images of your OS and Data partitions on external media.
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How, exactly are you trying to install them, and what specific error message do you get?
Which OS is this?
 
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I'm running Windows 7 64 Bit. A box pops up and says "Invalid Drive: E:\" when I try to uninstall the program from add/remove which is understandable as it can't find it anymore but when I try to reinstall it on a different drive, I get the same error also.
 
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Are you actually directing it to install on another drive?

Have you remapped your user data folders from the C to E?

While you may be selecting "C" (for example), if you redirected folders on your C drive to elsewhere, it may still be seeking the "E" drive
 
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You can't "uninstall", because that drive no longer exists.
The Registry thinks it does, which is why you see it in Add/Remove. But it does not.

For the reinstall...you are actually trying to reinstall from the original install file?
 
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I haven't tried to remap anything yet, not even sure how to go about this. I have run the same programs on different drives before so I figured I could just redownload the installer onto my D drive and it and it would just create another version there. What exactly do I need to do to fix the issue?
 
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No....no "remap".
Run the install file. When it asks where to install, select Custom or Advanced.
Choose where it gets installed to.
 
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That would be awesome, except it doesn't even let me get that far. I double click the install file, and the first thing that comes up other than "RUN" is the error box.
 
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When I try that, I get this:
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and then this:
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What I think may be happening in your case is that it reads the Registry, looking for a previous version to 'update' or reinstall over.
It sees the Reg entry of the E drive, and then fails, because it no longer exists.
 
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Registry entries?
All of them? And all other traces of the old install?
 
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Ok I just checked and am seeing a lot of registry stuff from the launcher on the E drive that didn't get taken out by CCleaner, is there anyway I can delete them all at once? Or do I just need to do them one by one?
 
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Yep, that's the issue.
A LOT of applications check there, to see if there is an existing one they should be updating.

No, I do not i know of a way to get rid of ALL of them at once.
 
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In theory, CCleaner will do this.
"The Registry Cleaner will remove entries for non-existent applications, and it'll also fix invalid or corrupted entries. "

I'm not a fan of Registry cleaners, though.
 
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