I recently purchased a new computer and was loading some of my old software on it. My wife really likes Paint Shop Photo Album 4 because she is familiar with it. The computer has 2 hard drives (C & D). I wanted to load the software on the D drive with all our pictures. When the install booted up it defaulted to the C drive and there was no options to load it on a different drive.
Is there a "work around"?
Thank you
Mark
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Re: Paint Shop Photo Album 4
Your D drive is miniscule and is actually just a partition to your C drive. Windows uses it for critical backup information. Don't mess with it if you don't have too.... ever. There is a workaround, but it would require you to reinstall the entire operating system after reformatting and repartitioning your drive, not fun nor worth the added headache. Besides the software you're trying to install probably needs to be installed in the main Programs folder to work, as well as install itself into the registry and other areas that most people aren't aware of.
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Re: Paint Shop Photo Album 4
And if the aren't talking about a recovery partition, df? Admittedly he doesn't give us a lot to go off of for either assumption but the wording does offer the possibility that he knows he has two harddrives and wants the software on the same harddrive he keeps his pictures already.
Mark if df is correct and you aren't aware that the D harddrive that shows up in your computer is just a recovery partition then leave it alone you don't want to install anything there. If however, as you seem to me to indicate, you do actually have two harddrives and already keep your photos on drive D then I'm afraid that as far as I can tell the installer was never designed to take alternate locations into consideration. None of my searches, and I even downloaded the original user guide, revealed any opportunity to install on an alternate drive. So unless someone else knows something or finds something I'm going to say that it can't install on any other drive than drive C.
Mark if df is correct and you aren't aware that the D harddrive that shows up in your computer is just a recovery partition then leave it alone you don't want to install anything there. If however, as you seem to me to indicate, you do actually have two harddrives and already keep your photos on drive D then I'm afraid that as far as I can tell the installer was never designed to take alternate locations into consideration. None of my searches, and I even downloaded the original user guide, revealed any opportunity to install on an alternate drive. So unless someone else knows something or finds something I'm going to say that it can't install on any other drive than drive C.
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Re: Paint Shop Photo Album 4
I do have 2 separate hard drives; C drive is 40GB (only 10.8GB free space after loading PSPA4) while the D drive is 108GB with 60.7GB free space.
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