Changing Default Installation Path?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Ben.Ks, Feb 21, 2009.

  1. Ben.Ks

    Ben.Ks Private E-2

    Hey, its the new guy again. I recently bought a 320gb hard drive and formatted it but the letter thats assigned to the drive is J: , not the standard C:
    The issue I'm having is when I try to install drivers or the flash plugin it says that I must have free space on my disk. Clearly I have the space and its trying to install it into my C: which is one of my removable drives. I tried going into the disk manager and changing the letter assigned to the drive but its not letting me change it.

    Does anyone have any ideas? When I originally installed windows I had it set to Jumper, not master. Does that matter?
     
  2. buggabear

    buggabear MajorGeek

  3. buggabear

    buggabear MajorGeek

  4. Ben.Ks

    Ben.Ks Private E-2

    I found out how to do it. I'm sorry I didn't reply earlier. I attempted to change the letter assignment through disk manager but it wouldn't let me because it was my boot drive. So instead I went to command prompt and typed "subst C: for J:/" and it worked. Mind you every time I want to install something that doesn't give you the option for a destination, or doesn't find the default as J:/, and I haven't used command prompt since I last booted my computer, then it wont install. Just an extra step on occasion. The next time I wipe my computer I'll change it to C:/. I've installed too much and have way too many updates to wipe it now and correct the error.
     

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