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The move worked. So i whipped out the Dell Driver Reinstall CD and started fixing driver issues. But when installing the ethernet driver for my 755, the following error message occurred:

This isnt an actual screen shot it's a pic i stole from a forum board. but it's the ame error for the same reason.

This error has several possible causes.

1. One cause is that the installation was created with a hard-coded path to a drive with a letter that does not exist on the machine.
2. The CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive letter has changed since a previous install.
3. You have changed the drive letter of the hard disk that the operating system is installed on, for example, drive C.
4. This behavior may occur if a registry key contains an incorrect value in a Data field.

I got this issue because our “My Documents” folders are hard coded to a network share. The share was inaccessible because I hadn’t installed the Ethernet driver. I couldn’t install the Ethernet driver because the install threw an error.

If you have the same issue yet for a difference reason than mine, check out this link. That’s where I got the information from. I needed to go thru the following keys and change all my registry keys from (F:) to the  (C:).

1. Click Start, and then click Run. The Run dialog box opens.
2. In the Open field, type regedit, and then click OK. The Registry Editor opens.
3. In the Registry Editor, locate the following registry key:
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
4. In the right pane, note the values in the Data column of each entry. If any value contains a drive that is not correct for your computer, right-click the entry and select Modify.
5. Type the correct drive letter in the Value data field, and then click OK. For example, if one of the values is “X:\Documents and Settings\Administrator”, the drive letter should be changed to a valid drive on the system, such as “C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator”.
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each entry whose Data value contains an incorrect drive.
7. Repeat steps 3 through 6 for each of the following registry keys:
   • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
   • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
   • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
   • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
8. Close the Registry Editor and run the installation again.

Worked for me.

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