I wanted to blow my head off with this one.

I was told that the Windows Driver Development Kit was compatible with Vista…this was verified by numerous sites.

Yet time and time again the installs failed….with the error msg:

The WDK 7_0_0 install failed with the following error msg (which I couldn’t find ANYWHERE…grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)

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KitSetup is unable to open the specified logfile

Additional information:

CreateFile call failed returning Windows error code 123 (0x007b) = “The file, directory name, or volume label
syntax is incorrect.”

Logfile: C:\Users\murphy\AppData\Local\Temp;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07\lib;C:\Users\murphy\Programs\javacomm20-win32\commapi\samples\Blackbox\Blackbox.jar;\KitSetup.log

This error occurred before logging was initialized so no logfile was created.

[KitSetup version 201.104.808.2200 error code 0x000e caught during initialization of base routines. The KitSetup process will now exit.]

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The WDK 6001 install failed with the following error msg:

Windows Platform SDK API call failure

Additional Information

In function CopyFile…

CreateDirectory call failed returning Windows error code 123 (0x007b) = “The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.”

directory=C:\Users\murphy\AppData\Local\Temp;C:\
filename_source=C:\Users\murphy\AppData\Local\Temp\KitSetup.log
filename_sink=C:\Users\murphy\AppData\Local\Temp;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07\lib;C:\Users\murphy\Programs\javacomm20-win32\commapi\samples\BlackBox\Blackbox.jar;\WDK-KitSetup.log throw_if_exists=false

[KitSetup version 200.114.807.700 error code 0×0007 caught during initialization of runtime routines. The KitSetup process will now exit.|

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I spent days trying to fix it. The solution?

Upgrading to Windows 7 allowed me to @ least install WDK 6000….I will update where I get to from there….

Live the dream!

Murphy