Office 2000 help needed!

[ATLien247]

I have an older PC that has two HDDs. The primary HDD [C:] doesn't have much free disk space left--maybe 150MB at the most. The secondary HDD [D:] has at least 1GB free.

When I try to install Office 2000 to D:, it tells me that I don't have enough space available on--get this--the C: drive. Anyone know how I can get around this?

I can't free up enough disk space on C: since it's a rather small drive (500MB) and most of that is occupied with Windows 95. I would rather not swap drives (e.g. make the larger disk the primary, have to reinstall everything, etc.), if I don't absolutley have to...

Any ideas?

 

[Azraele]

First, are the HD's 2 actual separate hd's of are they 1 drive partitioned into 2 separate drives?

 

[ATLien247]

Azraele,

They are separate HDDs. Primary is 525MB, secondary is 2.1GB.

 

[Azraele]

Even when you try an install on the slave, windows like to install a lot of it on C: because of .dlls, drivers, and shared system files.

The only thing I can think of for you to do is try and find anything to delete on C:

Possible *.old or *.-- or some *.log files or maybe temp files. How much space do you have devoted to history and temporary internet files in IE (if you use IE)?

 

[Namuna]

Just like Az says dude, Office installs files into your Windows/Winnt directory.

Here's your choices...

- Clean up your C drive
- Get a bigger HD for C (How long do you REALLY think you can survive with that skimpy capacity?)

Of course if you REALLY want to put the files in the D drive, that's easy...Just reformat your hard drive and choose to install Windows whatever on the D drive instead...Then when you install Office, it'll go in D.

 

[ATLien247]

So there isn't an easy workaround, eh?

Unless anyone else has any ideas, I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet and swap drives. ARGH!!! I wonder how long it will take to install Windows 95, Office 2000, and all the other miscellaneous junk on this P166 w/ 32MB RAM...

 

[Rob G.]

You've probably already done this, but if not then move your Windows swap file to somewhere on your second physical drive. This will free up some space on C: