Installing Office onto a different drive

[calvinbiss]

Is it possible to install Office onto a different partition other than where windows resides?

 

[Nocturnal]

Yes. The only thing is when you format and reinstall Windows your Office installation will no longer work since the registry has been changed dramatically.

 

[calvinbiss]

well, let me give you a little background. I have a dell lappy, and i reformatted the drive, as well as te partition where dell stores all its files. This other partition was like 3 gigs, so i figured i would just install windows there, and have more other 50+ gigs to do whatever with. the problem is that with office on that partition, i keep getting low disk space messages, and its annoying. But i don't remember Office Installation allowing me to select the installatioin location. SO i want to uninstall office from the smaller partition, and then reinstall it on the larger partition (where windows is not).

 

[mooncancook]

I always install applications/games on seperate partition. I'm sure Office installation prompts you the location of installation and you can change it. Just pay attention to the steps.

 

[mooncancook]

p.s. you might want to increase size of your windows partition, maybe around 8 gigs or more.

 

[calvinbiss]

how do i increase the partition size? do i need something like partition magic, or can i just type in a size while reformatting (which i think is how it works)?

sorry bout the stupid questions!

 

[mooncancook]

well if you are going to reformat the entire drive and reinstall windows, you have the option to change partition at the step where you choose which drive to install windows.

first delete the extended partitions so it'll have only one partition. Then create new partitions and specify the size for each. After that, choose the drive you want to install windows. Use partition magic if you don't wish to reformat the drive.