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[Stephen]

My Drive C is quite full, but I have another large drive in the computer.  The installation program puts the program on drive C, without asking where it should be installed.  How can I install the program to a drive other than the C drive?

[Beerman]

Stephen, on Oct 27 2006, 12:07 AM, said:

My Drive C is quite full, but I have another large drive in the computer.  The installation program puts the program on drive C, without asking where it should be installed.  How can I install the program to a drive other than the C drive?

There is a spot during the install where you can select another drive.  Select custom install and when you get to the screen where you can choose what programs to install and which ones not to install, select next then select back.  You should then see the default directory where it will be installed and a browse button to select where you want to install it.  Even though I install all my programs on my 'D' partition,with  many, many programs, I have this same problem.

[gi7omy]

Just an addition to what Paul said

1: You will still need some space on the C drive as not all the stuff will go to D (there are shared folders which must be on C and can't go anywhere else)

2: To clear space on C first go to Control Panel, System and click on the Advanced tab. Change the Environment variables to set D:\Temp as the default temp folder for both .tmp and .temp files. Don't forget to actually make a temp folder first tho. Then empty out the existing C:\Windows\Temp folder

3: Go to the start menu, right click on 'My Documents and open Properties - change the initial drive letter from C:\ to D:\. This will very nicely ask if you want to move all the folder to the new drive. Tell it yes and it automatically shunts all the stuff over.

4: More space can be cleared if you want rid of some stuff that is default install on XP or Windows 2K. First, open the windows folder, go to tools and select 'show all hidden files and folders'. You will then see a hidden folder called C:\Windows\Inf: open that and scroll down to Sysoc.inf and open that for editing. Do a block replace of ,hide with , (that is comma hide replaces with comma). Close and save and go to Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. You will now be able to uninstall Windows programs that you previously couldn't

Edited by gi7omy, 27 October 2006 - 05:06 AM.

[grandpabruce]

If you are going to be doing any video work with the software, then you should probably be looking at get a large hard drive.  The larger the better.

[cdanteek]

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1: You will still need some space on the C drive as not all the stuff will go to D (there are shared folders which must be on C and can't go anywhere else)

I agree, and add to what gi7omy said.


I did a custom install of v8 on a partitioned D drive. My C drive has 132mb of Roxio and Sonic content in folders on C!

When one gets to the program location in the install process, that list C:/Program Files/ bla, bla, bla. Highlight the C and change to D.

cdanteek

[smeggie]

Beerman, on Oct 27 2006, 04:48 AM, said:

There is a spot during the install where you can select another drive.  Select custom install and when you get to the screen where you can choose what programs to install and which ones not to install, select next then select back.  You should then see the default directory where it will be installed and a browse button to select where you want to install it.  Even though I install all my programs on my 'D' partition,with  many, many programs, I have this same problem.

If only there was a screen where you could choose the installation path.  Mine does not have this standard choice for installation location.  I got an email reply form Roxio support that said that they don't want you to install it on d:  

Beerman, on Oct 27 2006, 04:48 AM, said:

There is a spot during the install where you can select another drive.  Select custom install and when you get to the screen where you can choose what programs to install and which ones not to install, select next then select back.  You should then see the default directory where it will be installed and a browse button to select where you want to install it.  Even though I install all my programs on my 'D' partition,with  many, many programs, I have this same problem.

there is no such screen; at least not for the download version.  It is very lame.

Edited by gi7omy, 07 November 2006 - 06:10 AM.

[gi7omy]

Sorry - had to edit to remove the [quote] from the last line - with that there any attempt to reply failed.

However, never having used the download version I can't be certain about the failure to install on the D drive but one last thing you can do to free up space in C is to shift the page file to D: - if D is a separate drive so much the better because there is also a slight performance gain by doing that.

To do it, go to Control Panel, System, Advanced, Performance, Advanced and Virtual Memory - change from the default settings to set up  Virtual Memory on the D drive and zero on C:.  Use the existing values or better still, set Max and Min to the present Max value (helps stop it fragmenting)

[smeggie]

gi7omy, on Oct 27 2006, 05:02 AM, said:

Just an addition to what Paul said

1: You will still need some space on the C drive as not all the stuff will go to D (there are shared folders which must be on C and can't go anywhere else)

2: To clear space on C first go to Control Panel, System and click on the Advanced tab. Change the Environment variables to set D:\Temp as the default temp folder for both .tmp and .temp files. Don't forget to actually make a temp folder first tho. Then empty out the existing C:\Windows\Temp folder

3: Go to the start menu, right click on 'My Documents and open Properties - change the initial drive letter from C:\ to D:\. This will very nicely ask if you want to move all the folder to the new drive. Tell it yes and it automatically shunts all the stuff over.

4: More space can be cleared if you want rid of some stuff that is default install on XP or Windows 2K. First, open the windows folder, go to tools and select 'show all hidden files and folders'. You will then see a hidden folder called C:\Windows\Inf: open that and scroll down to Sysoc.inf and open that for editing. Do a block replace of ,hide with , (that is comma hide replaces with comma). Close and save and go to Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. You will now be able to uninstall Windows programs that you previously couldn't

This worked great.  The sysoc.inf trick did not work, but i might try it again.