Windows XP: Build Folder disappeared error

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hello together,
I use the Arduino 1.0.5-Version, installed on two machines.
On the 2nd, primitive examples (Blink, DigitalRead..) are running. It is a Windows XP-System with only user Administrator.
On the first one (same system), there is an user "administrator", called master and my personel user.
Regardless of which user I start Arduino,
the message "Build Folder disappeared or could not been written" appears (in German!).
On the 2nd computer the build-output is written under:
C:Dokumente und Einstellungen\Administrator\Lokale Einstellungen\Temp\build87254376532.tmp e.g.
All tries with "build" folders I have created do not work.

The error-message on the 1.st computer is always:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: D:\Arduino\build\sketch_jan28d.cpp (Das Gerät ist nicht bereit)
(device not ready)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.(FileOutputStream.java:179)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.(FileOutputStream.java:131)
at processing.app.preproc.PdePreprocessor.writePrefix(PdePreprocessor.java:139)
at processing.app.Sketch.preprocess(Sketch.java:1390)
at processing.app.Sketch.preprocess(Sketch.java:1339)
at processing.app.Sketch.build(Sketch.java:1585)
at processing.app.Sketch.build(Sketch.java:1567)
at processing.app.Editor$DefaultRunHandler.run(Editor.java:1897)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
processing.app.debug.RunnerException: Der Build-Ordner ist verschwunden, oder
konnte nicht geschrieben werden (Build Folder disappeared or could not been written)
at processing.app.Sketch.preprocess(Sketch.java:1397)
at processing.app.Sketch.preprocess(Sketch.java:1339)
at processing.app.Sketch.build(Sketch.java:1585)
at processing.app.Sketch.build(Sketch.java:1567)
at processing.app.Editor$DefaultRunHandler.run(Editor.java:1897)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

But I don't have any drive D:! What is the reason Arduino wants to write on device D:?
Is there a chance to switch to device C: anywhere in the configuration?
I'm working over 30 years with computers and electronics - but again and again there comes something new...
Greetings from Franky in Germany - is anybody fit to help me?

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Did you try restarting the Arduino IDE adn the computer? (just asking...)

Otherwise you should be able to set a build path in the preferences.txt with build.path=

But I where you I would download a newer IDE (I still stick with 1.6.4 because I found 1.6.5 and 1.6.6 buggy but 1.6.7 should be fine again) and try that. So fully uninstall the current version and install the newer. The compiler in the 1.6.x is way better anyway.

(And I personally would upgrade Win XP to Win 7/10 as well....)

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go with 1.6.5, I use it regularly on a WinXP pc.