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Im trying to install a game from a .exe file,everything seems to be going fine,syas its going to install the game on my D: drive(in D:Program files/gamename,just a second or two it comes up with an error message,C:Then below this C: it says not enough space to install on above drive(ie.C:)Is it trying to put temporary files to the C: drive?D: is my main drive with all my files on it.This C: is just a very small partition of my one hard drive that was created when i installed windows(don't ask!) Anyone help?
It's really hard to say.
Either it is looking for temporary space on the C drive for the installation files or it could be that the program was written incorrectly and always looks at the space available on C regardless of where you are actually installing to. Really hard to know what it is unless you were to do some extensive tests.
Is the installation exe on C? If so, try moving it to D to see if that helps.
If not, I would suggest temporarily moving some "large" program folders to D. The programs will be "broken" when you move them, but it should free up enough space on C to do your installation - then you can move them back.
You could also do some general housecleaning. Empty recycle bin, delete temp and IE cache files, delete unneeded restore points, etc.
Michael J
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How much free space do you have anyway? To find out...
1. Hit ΓΏ+E keys together to open Windows explorer.
2. Left click on the drive icon and select properties. You will see a pie of the actual hard drive space taken verses the available hard drive space.
i_XpUser
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Every once in a while you run into a program that 'insists' on installing to C:. In your case, there's not much you can do about it. Unless you want to remove the small Partition and reinstall your OS on the C: drive.
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!
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Must be a pretty old program.
At a cmd prompt type "set".
This will list your temp/tmp variables. Do any point to c:? If so, change them to point to d:you could also try using the "subst" command to redirect c: to a folder on d: thereby fooling the install.
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Most windows programs install to the "C:" drive first in a temporary file then to your designated path. If you can, uninstall some programs (like Office) and see if this helps.
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This C: partition(within my harddrive D:)is only 7.88mb in size,don't know why windows made this small partition when i was installing XP.
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"I tried the CMD command thing and they all point to D:!Weird."
As asked before, what is your available space on C? Also, some programs may always use C for the installation itself or at least for the temp files (i.e. they don't utilize the system variables).
Have you tried moving files from C to D and then running the installation?
Michael J
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Michael J you aren't reading his posts. He has a small partition for c: which is 7.8 MEG. There is nothing to move buddy!
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"Michael J you aren't reading his posts. He has a small partition for c: which is 7.8 MEG. There is nothing to move buddy!"
No, I understand it perfectly. As I stated before you can move the files for a program to another partition temporarily. This will break the program while it is moved (because of shortcut and registry paths). But, it will free up some space so that he can run the installation of the new program. Once the installation is done you can restore the moved program files to their original location.
Michael J
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I may be wrong but I think you need to have enough free space on the drive before Windows will move files to another drive.
i_XpUser
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I don't think moving files is going to help.
A 'funky' solution would be to use partition Magic to increase the C: partition size (borrowing from D:). I don't recommend this. :-)
But another solution might be to delete the small partition and do a 'repair' installation on the OS drive (which 'might' be changed to C:). That's assuming that you do not have an OEM system.
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!
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I thought of suggesting PM8 but backed off after I recall that it requires you to have ample free space.
i_XpUser
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If nothing else works ...
1. Think about cleaning out TIF.
2. Think about turning off System Restore.
3. Think about moving pagefile to another drive.i_XpUser
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The space problem is on the small 7.88 mb C: partition, freeing space on the OS (D:) drive probably won't help.
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!
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Michael J how is the program going to be moved when the issue is it can't be installed due to a lack of disk space? :-)
robbocop33 have you gone to the programs web site and seen if they have a solution? Maybe a path edit of a inf file?
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Excellent advice from Wanderer. That's probably the best solution.
But then again trashing the program might actually be the best. :-)Do yourself a favor BACKUP!
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"Michael J how is the program going to be moved when the issue is it can't be installed due to a lack of disk space? :-)"
My God, no one seems to understand what I am saying. I said move A program so you could install the NEW program. My assumption is that there is not enough room for the temporary files on drive C for the installation process.
For example, let's say you wanted to install program B and it is saying there is not enough room on drive C. So, take your Office installation (or any other program which is already installed on drive C) and move the program folder to drive D. Install program B to drive D then restore the Office program folder (or whatever program you moved) back to drive C.
Michael J
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That makes sense Michael, 'if' all the program needs the C: drive for is temporary files and doesn't intend to install the program there.
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!
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And "if" it does actually install to C, then uninstal it and restore the other program back and find another solution. That is simply a very low-risk possible solution. Much less so then trying to resize a partition that is almost full.
Michael J
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I don't think there would be a problem expanding a partition that is almost full, if space can be stolen from the D: drive. But like I said earlier, I wouldn't recommend that. I agree that your suggestion is safe, but a waste of time. I'm sure it is going to try and install on C:. I don't think it would be trying to create temporary files on C: if it wasn't going to install there.
But anyway, my real suggestion is to either give up on the program and trash it or wipe the drive and reinstall on C:. Sooner or later he will probably run into the same problem.
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!
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Many programs install most of the files where you tell it but many system type of files are put into common windows system folders.
I would suggest that you get a linux cd that has a partition magic clone or purchase the partition magic software. Then (if you have xp updates) you can adjust sizes of partitions to increase drive C: total size.
Be sure to make a backup of your system if you can. Be sure you understand how to recover from PM if it were to fail. Get any updates to PM BEFORE you run it for the first time if not 8.0x.
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This may also assume that there is free space at the end of the drive. From posts I can't be sure I understand the true size of the hard drive.
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Just one more input to this looooooong debate... You can allways move the pagefile from the C: to D:, minimize the memory dumpfile and disable eventual hibernate file.
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