I installed Windows 7 beta on both of my computers the day it was supposed to be released, I haven’t used it much on my desktop though until today.
One of the websites I visited prompted me to install the Flash Plug-in, not something I haven’t seen before. OK, let’s install the plugin, it should only take a minute right? Scratch that!
But, but but…
My G:/ drive; the partition I have devoted to Windows 7 still has 3.45 GB of free space. My mind immediatly goes into “Blame the Beta” mode. Is it possible that Win 7 can’t do simple Math? A quick google action revealed that this is an Adobe Flash bug. The Flash Plugin installation freaks out when it can’t see the Holy C:/ drive.
Arghhh! Microsoft PLEASE DO AWAY WITH THIS DRIVE MAPPING CRAP. Althought it is not a Microsoft’s fault here, it could have been avoided.
OK, enough complaining. Time to talk about how to resolve this. Insert a flash drive in, Sweet! It took the letter ”C”, If it does not, you need to go to “Disk Management” and change the letter drive.
Now that my Flash Drive is known as C:/, let’s go back to installing the Plugin. I need to close Google Chrome. OK, I’ll save this post and be right back.
And we’re back in business!
So, for some weird and unknown reason, the Plugin needed to see a C:/ drive, even if it was not really needed for the installation. Whatever Adobe!, I’ll go back to my Saturday morning browsing now. Oh wait, do I hear a baby crying? hmm, time to change a diaper I guess.
PapaGeek.
