Unable to reinstall KiCad due to corrupted drive

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Hello everyone,

I’ve been fairly new to KiCad and had some experience to make some projects in KiCad version 9 before my HDD got corrupted and even since then I’ve been trying to fresh install a new copy of KiCad to my SSD but for some reason, the installation always defaults do my corrupted HHD and I have no control in changing the file directory, I’ve tried many things like redownloading the installer, deleting all the old files like appdata but its always the same issue. I cannot click on browse folder or paste my new directory on the destination Folder. I’ve been stuck on this for a while and would like to find a solution for this quick. Thanks to everyone who reads this.

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I’m guessing this is a windows install? Which Windows version?

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Yes, sorry I forgot to mention that but I’m on windows and on Windows 11 to be exact.

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In general the installer is ensuring any updates/changes for the same major version goes to the existing install.

You have to uninstall the old version. Or go to

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ In regedit, find the “KiCad X.XX” entry and delete it.

Or if you user-mode installed

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\

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