Installing WoW

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Hey

I've just hit 70 on a couple of my chars so I thought I might as well download the WOTLK 10day trial and then pickup a retail copy tomorrow.

However when I run the installer it tells me I don't have enough room on my HDD. The thing is I want to install to my D: drive which does have the room, not my C: drive which only has a few GB and I'm sure is why I'm getting the error.

Is there anyway to tell it to install to the D: drive? It closes itself at the no-free-space error before I can change any settings/destination etc

Thanks
 
Wait, is the rest of World of Warcraft installed on your C or D drive ?

You can't install the expansion packs anywhere other then the World of Warcraft folder as far as I'm aware.

Try making room, or doing a fresh install of the game onto a drive that has plenty of space, because remember updates take up a fair amount of space.
 
I had this exact same problem.

There was a simple fix, but I can't remember what it was now. I'll let you know when I find it...

While I find the fix I used, try running the installer from your D: drive instead of from C:. Also, run the downloader in administrative mode if you're using Vista.
 
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Tummy said:
Wait, is the rest of World of Warcraft installed on your C or D drive ?

You can't install the expansion packs anywhere other then the World of Warcraft folder as far as I'm aware.

Try making room, or doing a fresh install of the game onto a drive that has plenty of space, because remember updates take up a fair amount of space.
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When I set my Windows XP install up, I separated my Program Files to the D drive using a registry tweak. So all my games/programs (including WoW) are set to install on the D drive by default. This D drive has over 30GB of free space but it seems rather than the WoW installer installing to the D it was to install to the C drive which doesn't have the free space (or my current install of WoW).
 
Craig321 said:
I had this exact same problem.

There was a simple fix, but I can't remember what it was now. I'll let you know when I find it...

While I find the fix I used, try running the installer from your D: drive instead of from C:
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Thanks Craig, tried that one already but glad to know I'm not the only one with this problem (and even happier to hear theres a fix :p)
 
*makes oooohhh noise*

Did you have any problems installing the Burning Crusade ??
I've never really come across this, I have vista + World of Warcraft, music on my C and Steam + Pics, Video's on my D drive.

Sorry I'm not much use.
 
Ah I fixed it! Had to regedit fix the location of my common files directory (something I should have done originally)!

Thanks for the help :)
 
It's probably your PC's way of saying "Please, no more WoW! Have Mercy :("

Sorry but I had to :p
 
toosepin said:
When I set my Windows XP install up, I separated my Program Files to the D drive using a registry tweak. So all my games/programs (including WoW) are set to install on the D drive by default. This D drive has over 30GB of free space but it seems rather than the WoW installer installing to the D it was to install to the C drive which doesn't have the free space (or my current install of WoW).
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Hmm, one of the fixes was to change the default location of your program files folder... but as you've already done it then the problem you're having isn't the same as the one that most commonly occurs.

Still trying to find the fix I used :/
 
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