Office installation - not enough space on the 100MB E drive?

[shroomz]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to reinstall office 2010 on Windows 7 64 but I keep getting an error saying that the E drive doesn't have enough space for installation, 75MB is needed and only 25MB is available (E is my default system reserved drive). I've never had this before and googling doesn't seem to give any answers, can someone help?

Ta

 

[CaptainCrash]

I don't know why it's trying to install to 'E' (I presume your OS partition is C ?), but your system reserved partition shouldn't have a drive letter anyway, or be visible in Explorer. You could try removing the drive letter, then rerun Office setup - right-click the 100MB partition it in disk management, then "Change Drive Letter and Paths" > "Remove".

 

[Sparx]

When running the installer have you tried to go on 'Customise' for the installation and change the installation directory?

 

[shroomz]

When running the installer have you tried to go on 'Customise' for the installation and change the installation directory?

yup, which is why it's so weird, even though I set it to C:\, it tries to install some on E.

I'll unname the boot drive to see if that works

e- seems to be installing now, thanks guys

 

[bledd]

Remove the drive letter in Disk Management

 

[this_is_gav]

Glad it's sorted.

yup, which is why it's so weird, even though I set it to C:\, it tries to install some on E.

It wasn't trying to install to E:, just use the E: drive to store temporary extracted files during. Windows patches usually do this too. Occasionally some of those temporary files are left without being deleted after installation, but they're usually cleaned by the installer.

Why on earth the MSI installer isn't intelligent enough to detect that the drive isn't anywhere near big enough is another matter though.

 

[this_is_gav]

If you're struggling to find drivers for a certain device, head into the Device Manager, bring up the properties for the device in question, go to Details and choose Hardware Ids from the drop down menu.

For most actual devices you'll find "VEN_xxxx&DEV_xxxx" (where the xxxx's are alpha-numeric characters identifying the device). VEN is the vendor (manufacturer) and DEV is the device. Searching for the full string will, in theory*, bring up the device name.

For instance a search for:
"VEN_13F6&DEV_8788"
(including quotation marks) shows that my sound device is an ASUS Xonar, which is correct.

This isn't necessarily the be-all-and-end-all, as some manufacturers use the same ids for slightly different drivers - in the example above, it also covers the Xonar DG, while mine a Xonar DX, but it at least gives me a path to follow. Laptop manufacturers not wanting you to use the latest drivers for whatever reason are my most hated. JUST LET ME USE ONE GRAPHICS DRIVER IN MY BLOODY SYSTEM IMAGES AMD!

If you're struggling for a device, I find looking for an ACPI, keyboard or energy management driver on, normally on a laptop manufacturer's website, is sufficient to make that exclamation mark finally go away.

* I say in theory, as it doesn't always work, and fake hardware (BIOS strings that fake a piece of hardware to the OS for instance) sometimes doesn't have this string.