Installing program NOT in C drive

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courtney01

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I partitioned my hard drive so that C is about 15GB, D is 300, and E is also 300. I'm trying to install a demo game file in D drive but it keeps trying to install in C, but there's no space for it. I want to use the C drive for system things only, and the D drive for other programs. How do I handle this?
 
Choose the D as the install path from the installer?

If that doesnt not work for some insane reason.

Make a folder on C drive called "D"
goto disk management
select the D partition
Right click and choose change drive letters and paths
choose Add
Select mount in an empty NTFS folder.
Choose your D Folder

Boom
 
nitrobass24 said:
Choose the D as the install path from the installer?

If that doesnt not work for some insane reason.

Make a folder on C drive called "D"
goto disk management
select the D partition
Right click and choose change drive letters and paths
choose Add
Select mount in an empty NTFS folder.
Choose your D Folder

Boom
Click to expand...

Where do I go to choose D as the install path from the installer? I'm using Windows XP Pro SP3. When I right click the file, there aren't any options related to that.

Where's disk management?
 
courtney01 said:
Where do I go to choose D as the install path from the installer? I'm using Windows XP Pro SP3. When I right click the file, there aren't any options related to that.
Click to expand...

every software installer out there should let you choose where you want to install to.
 
Gabe3 said:
every software installer out there should let you choose where you want to install to.
Click to expand...

When I open the file, it automatically starts extracting itself (WinRAR self-extracting archive). The "destination folder" is shaded out so it doesn't allow me to change it.
 
Do the folder thing

Disk management

Right click on my computer
Choose Manage
 
nitrobass24 said:
Choose the D as the install path from the installer?

If that doesnt not work for some insane reason.

Make a folder on C drive called "D"
goto disk management
select the D partition
Right click and choose change drive letters and paths
choose Add
Select mount in an empty NTFS folder.
Choose your D Folder

Boom
Click to expand...

Ok I just did your second suggestion. What is this really doing?

I see the D icon now under the C drive. If I delete this, am I just going back to the way it was before I did all these steps, or is the hard drive somehow fundamentally changed?

update: well I opened the file again, and it's still installing itself into some folder in C
 
umm..I think the win rar is extracting to his temp folder on C: while it unpacks, and then will go to wherever he selects for install...It's his temp folder that is filling...that's my guess. Try expanding your 15gb partition w/ something like partition magic...
 
Download winrar

Right click on your file
Choose extract archive...

That should let you choose where to unpack the files
Then you will need to manually start the installer.
 
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