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Hudzy

Hudzy

Hudzy

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I've just done a reinstall of Vista HP x64 on a new hard drive. Mid way through installing all my software again, I've run into an odd problem.

I have Vista installed to C:\ however I install apps to E:\ which is a partition on the same physical drive. Now whenever I change the install path to E:\ the required space shown in most installers drops to 0 bytes instead of whatever size the app requires. For some reason, as a result I guess, it then tells me there's not enough space to install these 0 bytes.

There are infact 500 GB free. If I change the path back to C:\ it works fine, but if I change it to any of the other drives, it has the same problem.

I'm ruling out hard drive error because of that. I've been using Vista since RC2 and installing apps to the non-OS partition the whole time without any issues so I really don't see what's changed. I've managed to install quite a lot so far without any problem, and now everything I try to install throws this problem at me, so it seems unlikely to be a bug in the software itself.

I'm at a loss.
 
Just standard NTFS. Created with diskpart.

Apparently it works fine if the install path is an already existing folder, but not if it isn't. So I can manually create the folder once I see what it is, but that's a bit tedious really.

It still works fine on C:\ with creating its own folder.
 
Sounds like a permissions thing in that the installer can't stat the drive in order to evaluate the free space. Try resetting the permissions on the disk. Are you running the installer as admin ?
 
Checked the permissions. They haven't changed, and they're the same on C:\ and the others.

I've done a system restore to a couple of days ago when I know it was working, just incase, and that has sort of helped. It lets me continue installing even after saying getting the 'no space' dialog.

Strange.
 
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