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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: MicroPsycho on June 24, 2005, 08:36:55 am

Title: Setting dfault drive
Post by: MicroPsycho on June 24, 2005, 08:36:55 am

I recently partitioned my hardrive, one small partition for windows/my documents and the other for everything else. is there any way I can set one drive as default so that when I install something it automatically chooses D:\ (the larger partion) instead of C:\programfiles, the default partition?

Title: Setting dfault drive
Post by: karajorma on June 24, 2005, 09:27:28 am

There's probably a registry setting for that. Buggered if I know what it is though.

Title: Setting dfault drive
Post by: SadisticSid on June 24, 2005, 11:59:00 am

Not really, programs like InstallShield are hardwired to default paths. If you're so put out by this, make a mountpoint or shortcut to your second disk so all you have to do is insert a few characters and an extra backslash into C:\Program Files\{shortcut name like D}\Program Directory.

Title: Setting dfault drive
Post by: pyro-manic on June 29, 2005, 11:53:40 am

I think you can do something like that. I'm pretty sure I read about it a while back on www.msfn.org - it's a big site, but I was looking at the unattended install stuff, so it might be in there somewhere. You might have to set it up during the install with a batch file or something, but I seem to remember thinking about it.