Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Sibelius 8 Installation on Non-standard Windows System Drive

UPDATE: This doesn't work for Sibelius 8.0.1. See this post instead for that.

Over the years I have many generations of audio software and plugins installed on Windows, which itself has gone through many version upgrades. I can't remember why but one upgrade called for changing the system drive from C: to K: (probably for a backup reason), and ever since then K: has been my system drive.

Between projects, I decided to give Sibelius 8 a try. However, the installation file (Install_Sibelius.exe, unpacked from Sibelius_8.0.0_Win.zip) downloaded from Avid gave me this error:


Error 1327 invalid drive C:\.


By inspecting the log, I concluded that was hard-coded in the installer (FAIL! To tell the truth, it has been a familiar feeling ever since Avid acquired Sibelius).

I really don't want to change the system drive again, since it would involve the painful process of re-configuring a million things. It's also after their support hours so I did some research, and after some trial and error, this is what worked for me:

1. run cmd.exe as Administrator.
2. Change into the directory where Install_Sibelius.exe resides
3. Run the following command


J:\Users\composer\Desktop>J:\Install_Sibelius.exe /s /v"/qn /l*v %temp%\AvidSibeliusx64.log"



4. Follow the standard procedure to activate the software

That's it.

PS: I very much look forward to Daniel Spreadbury's new score writer.

2 comments:

  1. I'm still getting this error every time I need to update Sibelius. It doesn't like ANY of the windows locations (e.g. DOcuments, Photos, Music) being mapped to a NAS drive. It is massively frustrating and doesn't apply to any other piece of software I use!

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    1. This seems to be such a common requirement and yet they still haven't fixed the installation process.

      However, I do have my score files on a NAS over the years but haven't got problems accessing them. What error messages are you getting?

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