Redirecting automatic installations away from C drive

Ok, a friend of mine is trying to install a program. He has several slave drives, with his C drive being the smallest. The program he wants is too big for drive C, so it needs to be installed into one of the other ones. The problem, is that it won't allow him to choose any other drive besides C. My question, is how in the world do we get it so that he can install this program into one of his other drives? He is using Windows 2000 btw. We tried renaming the volume of the other drives and it didn't work. We even tried to trick the computer into thinking one of his other drives was the C drive, by naming it C and renaming the real one something else. It didn't work... Please we need help.

 

When you install the software do you have the options of custum install.

If yes choose that one from there you can choose where to put the program...

 

No, it doesn't. What it's supposed to do, is when you click on it, it runs a blue bar, which extracts the installation files, and then when it's over, it starts to install and THATS when you get to choose where to send it. It's just that first extraction that keeps going to C drive we can't get passed.

 

Just set you're temprorary file folder as a folder on another drive (I'm not 100% sure as to how you'd do this. Someone else may be able to help )

 

Oh wow.. that makes perfect sense. o_o Ok.. now I need help in figuring out how to move the temp internet folder. n_n

 

I think it's a registry setting and I think I've found it:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders

 

What do I do with that?

 

I think you change the local settings one to something like "D:\temp" assuming one of your other drives is D:. This may also require a restart to see if it works.

 

What local settings? I copied and pasted that into my My Computer address bar, and it brought me to a search page. I don't know how to get into what you want me to get into.

 

open the registry editor by going

Start => Run...

and then type in regedit and press enter.

Then navigate through the folders on the left until you get to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders. Once you get there, double click on the value to edit it.

 

We can't find local settings there..

 

Hmmm... what version of windows are you running

 

Windows 2000

 

Okay that's where the problem is for me. I'm running XP so the registry looks different to me.

 

There is another way to change it (i'm not sure if it's exactly like this in 2000). Rightclick on the my computer icon and go properties, then go to the Advanced tab. Theres a button called environmental variables - click that. Then up the top it should say "Envrionmental Variables for (Username)". Find the ones named TMP and TEMP and then change them to D:\temp or whatever

 

Ok, we did all that, he restarted his computer... and it didn't work. It's still trying to extract to C...

 

Hmmm... You could always move some of your files (that arent part of any programs) off of your C: drive and onto one of your other drives to free up some space temporarily.

 

Also run CCleaner to remove any temporary files on the "C:" drive.

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The suggestion to move files to another drive is a good suggestion. Typically movies and music is recommended to move.

Does your friend have multiple PHYSICAL drives? Or is this drive partitioned? Just curious.