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Setup file extraction
I was running a setup file on my computer and it requires about 800mb and the
drive i am trying to install it too has more that 7gb. But each time I try to install my main drive seems to take up space instead which doesnt have the space required for it. How can I stop that from happening? |
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Setup file extraction
Nick wrote:
I was running a setup file on my computer and it requires about 800mb and the drive i am trying to install it too has more that 7gb. But each time I try to install my main drive seems to take up space instead which doesnt have the space required for it. How can I stop that from happening? You may not but you can give this a try. Make a folder on the larger drive. Lets call it F:\TEMP2. The name is not important. Windows has defined temp folders on C: that the program may just be using during install. So if you can change that,you might just move where its going. Right click My Computer|Properties|Advanced|Environment Variables| You'll see both user and system environment variables. There are TEMP and TMP variables in both. The User is normally pointed to C:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temp and the system is C:\windows\temp. I would take a gamble that if you changed those paths for the point of the install and then rebooted, the install would run. Write down the old settings. I'd put them back personally. |
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Thank you Big Al it worked when I changed both the TEMP and the TMP files to
that new folder. Thank you again. "Big Al" wrote: Nick wrote: I was running a setup file on my computer and it requires about 800mb and the drive i am trying to install it too has more that 7gb. But each time I try to install my main drive seems to take up space instead which doesnt have the space required for it. How can I stop that from happening? You may not but you can give this a try. Make a folder on the larger drive. Lets call it F:\TEMP2. The name is not important. Windows has defined temp folders on C: that the program may just be using during install. So if you can change that,you might just move where its going. Right click My Computer|Properties|Advanced|Environment Variables| You'll see both user and system environment variables. There are TEMP and TMP variables in both. The User is normally pointed to C:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temp and the system is C:\windows\temp. I would take a gamble that if you changed those paths for the point of the install and then rebooted, the install would run. Write down the old settings. I'd put them back personally. |
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Setup file extraction
The only problem now is that for some reason the installation wants to force
some files into local drives and I dont know how to make it all go to the specified folder. "Nick" wrote: Thank you Big Al it worked when I changed both the TEMP and the TMP files to that new folder. Thank you again. "Big Al" wrote: Nick wrote: I was running a setup file on my computer and it requires about 800mb and the drive i am trying to install it too has more that 7gb. But each time I try to install my main drive seems to take up space instead which doesnt have the space required for it. How can I stop that from happening? You may not but you can give this a try. Make a folder on the larger drive. Lets call it F:\TEMP2. The name is not important. Windows has defined temp folders on C: that the program may just be using during install. So if you can change that,you might just move where its going. Right click My Computer|Properties|Advanced|Environment Variables| You'll see both user and system environment variables. There are TEMP and TMP variables in both. The User is normally pointed to C:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temp and the system is C:\windows\temp. I would take a gamble that if you changed those paths for the point of the install and then rebooted, the install would run. Write down the old settings. I'd put them back personally. |
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