Installing Office 2000 on a multi-partition drive

[Marc]

Good day, all--
Here's my issue, and forgive me if this sounds too simplistic!
Trying to install Office 2000 on an IBM Thinkpad, turns out that the C
partition doesn't have enough room, but the D partition has plenty. Specified
the program use D in the set-up routine, and it appears to want to work, then
I get the "Destination drive doesn't have sufficient disk space" or something
along those lines, and it looks like it is trying to default back to the C
side of the drive. Bang. Stop.
There has to be a workaround for getting this to the D side of the drive,
right?
TIA
Marc S.

 

[Og]

There are three issues related to your problem:



Issue #1. The files on the installation CD are compressed. This means that
those files have to be copied from the Installation CDs to your hard drive,
where they are uncompressed in preparation for installation.

The location of the folder(s) where that copying and uncompressing occurs
are as follows:

C:\Temp

C:\Windows\Temp

If, as you say, you are short of room on your "C" drive, there will not be
enough room for that copy / decompression activity to occur.



Issue #2. Even though you are attempting to install to "D" drive, there are
hundreds of System files (such as *.dll) that MUST be located in specific
folders within C:\Windows, and hundreds (thousands?) of entries MUST be made
to the System Registry. Even though most of the application files are being
written to "D" drive, you still need considerable space on "C" drive to
accommodate these files and entries.



Issue #3. Windows takes a relatively large chunk of Hard Drive space for a
Paging (swap) file. Briefly, Windows uses this space to store files that
will not fit into RAM memory. Windows keeps this space free whether it si
needed or not.



Solutions:



Make more room on you "C" drive by:

a. Move all of your data from "C" to "D" in order to free up space.

b. Use "Disk Cleanup" to clear dead files from your TEMP folders
to free up space.

c. Move Windows Paging file to "D" drive to free up space.



If you don't know how to do these things, ask in a newsgroup dedicated to
your particular Operating System.



Good luck,



steve