Streets and trips 2006

[conexion]

Hi. My friend has a laptop with a partitioned hard drive in 2, C and D. The C drive is 100% full; the D drive has 9 GB left, and that partitioned hard drive is fully accessible, it doesn't have any protection program like PC angel or anything like that, we can copy or move files to it.

The problem is when we try to install Microsoft Streets and trips 2006. We choose drive D and after that a message appears telling us that there isn't anymore room in both drives although the window shows that drive D has a lot of room avaliable. We've tried installing the program about 9 times and nothing happens, this is the first time I see something like that, I guess the program WANTS to be installed on C. What do you think about fixing this?

[pam123]

If you're right then there's something called the programsfilesDir that you can change but first, how much experience do you have working with the registry?
If you get this wrong you'll be reinstalling the operating system.
Your friend's biggest problem is that he needs to free up some space on his hard drive.

[glc]

The problem is there is no temp space left on the OS drive. Even to get it installed on D, you are going to have to free up some space on C. S&T 06 needs 1.2gb space. Time to do some serious housecleaning - or get a bigger drive and don't partition it this time.

[conexion]

I don't have to much experience but I will take the necessary precaution. How do I do it?

[rave]

heres an option:
1. move data from D drive to external
2. backup IMPORTANT data on C drive
3. download Gparted and burn ISO ( http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ )
4. boot to Gparted, delete drive D and increase C drives size to maximum, and apply

[pam123]

Originally Posted by conexion I don't have to much experience but I will take the necessary precaution. How do I do it?

You mean you're going to clear space on his hard drive?
Both glc and I have told you that you have to do that first.
First he goes through the C partition an removes files he doesn't need, it sounds as if you're friend isn't big on file clearing.
He does the same thing on the D partition.
When he's created more room on on both partitions you can hook an external usb drive to the laptop and pull off all the data from both partitions that he wants to keep ( It's a question of being able to use anything at all with a hard drive that full so you'll have to clear space first.).
With that done you defragment both partitions and you should run a registry cleaner like CCleaner : http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

Now go try installing Streets and Trips to the partition of your choice.
This is not ideal but it should work as a stop gap.