Not Enough Free Disk Space to Install

[Zaylan]

I am trying to install the game on my laptop. The laptop has a small SSD for the boot drive and OS and then a second drive for storage. The SSD is almost full and doesn't have enough space for the game to install. There is room on the second drive where I wanted to install it but the install only checks the C drive. I get a message saying "Not Enough Free Disk Space".

Is there a switch for the installer to say check my other drive instead of the boot drive?

[savarah]

Not sure which place it uses but you might be able to change Windows temp location:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/...ows-temp-files

Or My Documents location:
support.microsoft.com/kb/310147

That is where i'd assume they'd want to store the files.. its quite crap that they lock it.
(also doing these changes is at your own risk ^_~ )

[worldofneil]

How much space do you have on the C drive? Assuming that's where your My Documents folder is (it usually is), you're going to need at least 2GB free, possibly more.

When the game downloads updates/files it downloads to the "My Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\downloads\ffxivpatch" directory first, then moves them to wherever the game is installed.

The reason I said 2GB is because some of the game files are as big as 1.86GB so although it should hopefully only be downloading patches, potentially it could download the entire file, or at least patch/create the entire file on the C: before moving it to wherever.

If disk space on your C: is that much of a premium you could move your My Documents folder as the above has said or you could also look into Junctions (also known as links): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb896768.aspx

It allows you to create a directory on your computer that's actually a link to a folder in a different place, even a different drive, but anything trying to access it doesn't realise. I don't know if it'd work here, but I've used junctions for similar things to this before so it may help you here too, but obviously do so at your own risk, etc etc. I'm just mentioning that it exists as a possible option.