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My C drive is too small to install ESO. How do I install the game on my D drive?

goatlyonesub17_ESO
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I knew I should have held out for a larger SSD as my C drive. Oh well.
"Argonians have fat, scaly tails." —Rissa Manyclaws.
"Once upon a time there were three sisters: Delicious, Delightful, and Disgusting. Now, Delicious and Delightful were both very pretty girls..." —Brendalyn Jurarde.
"I smell to the nobility." —Indrasa Avani.
"A bargain with an animal is not a contract made." —Haderus Atrimus.
"Redguard makeup for sale. Free samples. Secret ingredients. Unique application method. Lots of satisfied customers." —The Mudball Goblin (aka, Cognac Vinecroft)
"Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • Garldeen
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    Run the exe from desk, and in the install to location select a folder in D
    Edited by Garldeen on March 25, 2016 9:23AM
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    I do not understand. Which exe are you talking about? What is the full filename?

    After I run this exe, what must I do to have a chance to select a folder on my D drive?
    "Argonians have fat, scaly tails." —Rissa Manyclaws.
    "Once upon a time there were three sisters: Delicious, Delightful, and Disgusting. Now, Delicious and Delightful were both very pretty girls..." —Brendalyn Jurarde.
    "I smell to the nobility." —Indrasa Avani.
    "A bargain with an animal is not a contract made." —Haderus Atrimus.
    "Redguard makeup for sale. Free samples. Secret ingredients. Unique application method. Lots of satisfied customers." —The Mudball Goblin (aka, Cognac Vinecroft)
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • Garldeen
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    Dowbload the setup file to your desktop and run that. One of the steps will ask you to choose when to install eso. It will give a default but there should be an option to change it. Select change and then find a folder in d from the directory list.

    It has been a while since i installed but cannot imagine the process has changed too much. Post back if still stuck
  • jamesharv2005ub17_ESO
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    Yes you can install it on your D drive. It doesnt care where you install it.
  • WalkingLegacy
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    Samsung 850 500G for $150 on newegg. Buy it up.
  • gypsythief
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    The exe that Wonkydog is talking about is the "Install_ESO.exe" that you downloaded from the account section of elderscrollsonline.com.

    Run that, and click through the various stages until you get to this screen:

    Screen01.jpg

    Click on the "Change" button, and a "Browse for Folder" window will appear:

    Screen02.jpg

    Note that MUST click the "Make new folder" button, as the installer DOES NOT automatically create a folder itself. Name your folder and then click "OK" button to return to the main installer window. Click the "Install" button and you're done.
    Edited by gypsythief on March 25, 2016 2:07PM
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    Okay, thanks, I've got it done. I'm about to press the big INSTALL button.
    So, if I'm lucky, I'll see you in-game in about a week....
    "Argonians have fat, scaly tails." —Rissa Manyclaws.
    "Once upon a time there were three sisters: Delicious, Delightful, and Disgusting. Now, Delicious and Delightful were both very pretty girls..." —Brendalyn Jurarde.
    "I smell to the nobility." —Indrasa Avani.
    "A bargain with an animal is not a contract made." —Haderus Atrimus.
    "Redguard makeup for sale. Free samples. Secret ingredients. Unique application method. Lots of satisfied customers." —The Mudball Goblin (aka, Cognac Vinecroft)
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • FortheloveofKrist
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    ESO is a finicky little ****. Your C drive is too small, so now she's lookin for the D.

    I feel ya, bruhther.

    P.S. Enjoy the comment while it lasts. Perty sure it'll get deleted in...4...3...2...

    Edited by FortheloveofKrist on March 25, 2016 4:44PM
  • SirAndy
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    Just FYI, you can also move the complete ESO folder to another folder/drive/computer and it'll run just fine. You might have to run repair in the launcher after a move but it's still a LOT better than having to download everything again.

    Of course any shortcuts you may have will need to be pointed to the new location.
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  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    It's going to the right folder now. I'm 400 MB into the 36600 MB download. I'm past the 1% mark! Yayyyy!!!
    "Argonians have fat, scaly tails." —Rissa Manyclaws.
    "Once upon a time there were three sisters: Delicious, Delightful, and Disgusting. Now, Delicious and Delightful were both very pretty girls..." —Brendalyn Jurarde.
    "I smell to the nobility." —Indrasa Avani.
    "A bargain with an animal is not a contract made." —Haderus Atrimus.
    "Redguard makeup for sale. Free samples. Secret ingredients. Unique application method. Lots of satisfied customers." —The Mudball Goblin (aka, Cognac Vinecroft)
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • KhajiitiLizard
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    I was confused for a second because for 20 some years the D drive was a CD drive. I was gonna be like you can't install anything there....
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    I wonder why the disk drive alphabet still starts with the letter C. It isn't as if we use those dinky little floppy disks anymore. We use SD cards instead. But if you plug an SD card into your computer or into an external reader via USB, you get some higher letter assigned to it: F, J, K... never an A or a B. That's just wasting letters, if you ask me.
    "Argonians have fat, scaly tails." —Rissa Manyclaws.
    "Once upon a time there were three sisters: Delicious, Delightful, and Disgusting. Now, Delicious and Delightful were both very pretty girls..." —Brendalyn Jurarde.
    "I smell to the nobility." —Indrasa Avani.
    "A bargain with an animal is not a contract made." —Haderus Atrimus.
    "Redguard makeup for sale. Free samples. Secret ingredients. Unique application method. Lots of satisfied customers." —The Mudball Goblin (aka, Cognac Vinecroft)
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • Pepsi2853_ESO
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    well is your D big enough? >:)
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    1TB > 85 GB
    "Argonians have fat, scaly tails." —Rissa Manyclaws.
    "Once upon a time there were three sisters: Delicious, Delightful, and Disgusting. Now, Delicious and Delightful were both very pretty girls..." —Brendalyn Jurarde.
    "I smell to the nobility." —Indrasa Avani.
    "A bargain with an animal is not a contract made." —Haderus Atrimus.
    "Redguard makeup for sale. Free samples. Secret ingredients. Unique application method. Lots of satisfied customers." —The Mudball Goblin (aka, Cognac Vinecroft)
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    At 24 hours, I'll have 1300 MB downloaded, which will leave 35300 MB remaining. That's an average rate of 15 kbps, and my DSL is supposed to maintain 135 kbps. Since this is a new computer, it's possible that Windows is downloading a long parade of security updates that I don't know how to detect, much less postpone until later. If this rate continues, I'll be able to log on to ESO for the first time since the TG update in about 27 days.

    I'm lost in space 70,000 light years into the Delta Quadrant, but I'm inching my way back home.

    Star Trek Voyager Theme Song
    Edited by goatlyonesub17_ESO on March 26, 2016 2:59PM
    "Argonians have fat, scaly tails." —Rissa Manyclaws.
    "Once upon a time there were three sisters: Delicious, Delightful, and Disgusting. Now, Delicious and Delightful were both very pretty girls..." —Brendalyn Jurarde.
    "I smell to the nobility." —Indrasa Avani.
    "A bargain with an animal is not a contract made." —Haderus Atrimus.
    "Redguard makeup for sale. Free samples. Secret ingredients. Unique application method. Lots of satisfied customers." —The Mudball Goblin (aka, Cognac Vinecroft)
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • Benie
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    I got my ESO install on my secondary 1TB, yet remember if you use mods, they all get installed to your My Documents folder (the C drive).
    I got this problem too. I got a 160G HDD as my C drive that I've had since 2005 (knocks on wood it continues to work...).
    --Char info updated as of March 23rd, 2016 - PC NA--
    Benie - VR1 Argonian Stam DragonKnight (2H Sword/Bow/WW)
    Beniee - VR3 Nord Mag Sorcerer (Destruction Staff)

    Well-known hotbar button spammer
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    Happy News!

    12:38 pm 25 March 2016. Started downloading ESO. 36679.46 MB.
    12:38 pm 26 March 2016. Remaining: 35191.46 MB. Ave rate: 17.222 kbps.

    Do the subtraction. I got 1488 MB on the first full day of downloading. It makes me want to goose-step with joy around the old parade ground, because that's more than the 1300 MB that I estimated that I'd get earlier. Now, instead of 27 days until I can resume playing ESO, it'll be only 23.65 more days.
    "Argonians have fat, scaly tails." —Rissa Manyclaws.
    "Once upon a time there were three sisters: Delicious, Delightful, and Disgusting. Now, Delicious and Delightful were both very pretty girls..." —Brendalyn Jurarde.
    "I smell to the nobility." —Indrasa Avani.
    "A bargain with an animal is not a contract made." —Haderus Atrimus.
    "Redguard makeup for sale. Free samples. Secret ingredients. Unique application method. Lots of satisfied customers." —The Mudball Goblin (aka, Cognac Vinecroft)
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • WalkingLegacy
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    Why is your DSL so slow? Should be closer to 700kbps for the cheapest tier eh?

    My cellphone is faster out in the middle of nowhere.
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    I've no idea why it is so slow. The service is Frontier Communications. The location is West Virginia.

    I have learned that in my county when the telephone lines were laid the phone company mixed aluminum and copper wiring without bothering with impedance-matching networks. I don't know whether or not that's a contributing cause.

    Lots of stuff is "hillbilly quality" out here. Nothing is sleek and robust and built with decent margins above spec. It's all jury-rigging, temporization, and quick-fixes. The local governments are mostly corrupt, and that means the capitalists can get away with their own share of abuses, too. Buildings exposed to the weather are made of non-pressure-treated lumber, which rots at the ground level in about 10 years, and the roofs are made of cheap asphalt tile over waferboard. The wind blows off the tiles, or they get holes in them, and it isn't long before the roof is rotten and leaking. The power goes off when it rains, and sometimes when the wind blows in an unusual direction. Substandard stuff is used just about everywhere. Just last week the telephone repairman visited my house to restore internet connectivity; he said that it had gone out for 96 people in my area because a wire in a nearby small town had gone bad.
    Edited by goatlyonesub17_ESO on March 28, 2016 8:36PM
    "Argonians have fat, scaly tails." —Rissa Manyclaws.
    "Once upon a time there were three sisters: Delicious, Delightful, and Disgusting. Now, Delicious and Delightful were both very pretty girls..." —Brendalyn Jurarde.
    "I smell to the nobility." —Indrasa Avani.
    "A bargain with an animal is not a contract made." —Haderus Atrimus.
    "Redguard makeup for sale. Free samples. Secret ingredients. Unique application method. Lots of satisfied customers." —The Mudball Goblin (aka, Cognac Vinecroft)
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    Progress report. Star date 2457474.261.

    (1) 12:38 pm 25 March. Started downloading ESO. 36679.46 MB.
    (2) 12:38 pm 26 March. Remaining: 35191.46 MB. Ave rate: 17.222 kbps. Time left: 23.65 days.

    (3) 18:00 pm 26 March. Remaining: 34411.46 MB.
    * Ave rate (since 1): 21.453 kbps. Time left: 18.57 days.
    * Ave rate (since 2): 40.372 kbps. Time left: 9.865 days.
    Edited by goatlyonesub17_ESO on March 27, 2016 5:18PM
    "Argonians have fat, scaly tails." —Rissa Manyclaws.
    "Once upon a time there were three sisters: Delicious, Delightful, and Disgusting. Now, Delicious and Delightful were both very pretty girls..." —Brendalyn Jurarde.
    "I smell to the nobility." —Indrasa Avani.
    "A bargain with an animal is not a contract made." —Haderus Atrimus.
    "Redguard makeup for sale. Free samples. Secret ingredients. Unique application method. Lots of satisfied customers." —The Mudball Goblin (aka, Cognac Vinecroft)
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • Elder_III
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    Perhaps you would consider buying a box copy of ESO? That would save you several days installation time by the look of it.
    Semi retired from the trading aspects of the game.
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    It's okay. I'll wait it out.
    "Argonians have fat, scaly tails." —Rissa Manyclaws.
    "Once upon a time there were three sisters: Delicious, Delightful, and Disgusting. Now, Delicious and Delightful were both very pretty girls..." —Brendalyn Jurarde.
    "I smell to the nobility." —Indrasa Avani.
    "A bargain with an animal is not a contract made." —Haderus Atrimus.
    "Redguard makeup for sale. Free samples. Secret ingredients. Unique application method. Lots of satisfied customers." —The Mudball Goblin (aka, Cognac Vinecroft)
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • scorpiodog
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    I was running on a USB drive for abut a month. Worked ok.
  • Thevampirenight
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    If I were you I would get an external hardrive and play on that, if you don't have the space to install in c drive then your going to need all the memory you can get, the game requires this, in order to run so just move all your games and place all your games on an external hardrive and delete everything from the c drive that way you have memory. You can get an external hardrive for sixty bucks or something like that. Its worth it and allows you to have open memory and thus improves performance. Basically head to staples and find a 1 terabyte or 2 terabyte external hardrive that can be connected to something like a lap top and just transfer your games to it.
    Edited by Thevampirenight on March 27, 2016 12:45AM
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    Please add Fangs to Vampires.
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    The API and windows swap files are on the SSD. It would be nice to have the game on the SSD, too, but there isn't room. Acer cheaps out on SSD size for the Predator AG6. It should be at least 512 GB, but no they only put in a 128 GB SSD, and it's the boot drive, which speeds up the boot, but reduces the space for other stuff.

    But the HDD is a relatively speedy latest model SATA III one, 7200rpm, 1 TB. It'll do for now.
    "Argonians have fat, scaly tails." —Rissa Manyclaws.
    "Once upon a time there were three sisters: Delicious, Delightful, and Disgusting. Now, Delicious and Delightful were both very pretty girls..." —Brendalyn Jurarde.
    "I smell to the nobility." —Indrasa Avani.
    "A bargain with an animal is not a contract made." —Haderus Atrimus.
    "Redguard makeup for sale. Free samples. Secret ingredients. Unique application method. Lots of satisfied customers." —The Mudball Goblin (aka, Cognac Vinecroft)
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • VodkaVixen1979
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    I have much fear for the lag you will have with "hillbilly" Internet from West Virginia!!! I live in Georgia, but moved close enough to Atlanta to get the high speed stuff finally. Can't live without it now even though I hate the urban sprawl....
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    Progress report. Star date 2457475.260.

    The transfer rate became considerably faster on the second day of downloading, as compared with the first day. ETA for logging into the game is April 2nd, if the average rate for the past 24 hours continues.

    (1) 12:38 25 March. Started downloading ESO. 36679.46 MB.
    (2) 12:38 26 March. Remaining: 35191.46 MB. Ave rate: 17.222 kbps. Time left: 23.65 days.

    (3) 18:00 26 March. Remaining: 34411.46 MB.
    * Ave rate (since 1): 21.453 kbps. Time left: 18.57 days.
    * Ave rate (since 2): 40.372 kbps. Time left: 9.865 days.

    (4) 08:38 27 March. Remaining: 30903.46 MB.
    * Ave rate (since 1): 36.465 kbps. Time left: 9.809 days.
    * Ave rate (since 2): 59.556 kbps. Time left: 6.006 days.
    * Ave rate (since 3): 66.591 kbps. Time left: 5.371 days.

    (5) 13:00 27 March. Remaining: 29935.46 MB.
    * Ave rate (since 2): 59.918 kbps. Time left: 5.782 days.
    Edited by goatlyonesub17_ESO on March 28, 2016 5:24PM
    "Argonians have fat, scaly tails." —Rissa Manyclaws.
    "Once upon a time there were three sisters: Delicious, Delightful, and Disgusting. Now, Delicious and Delightful were both very pretty girls..." —Brendalyn Jurarde.
    "I smell to the nobility." —Indrasa Avani.
    "A bargain with an animal is not a contract made." —Haderus Atrimus.
    "Redguard makeup for sale. Free samples. Secret ingredients. Unique application method. Lots of satisfied customers." —The Mudball Goblin (aka, Cognac Vinecroft)
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • exeeter702
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    Is this thread for real?
  • Xendyn
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    Yes, yes it is.
    And we're going to throw a party when OP finally gets the game downloaded :p
    Lag is ruinin' my 'mershun!
    A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
    There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance - Socrates
    Member of the Old Guard, keepers of the game's history

    PC/NA
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    Redundant post.
    Edited by goatlyonesub17_ESO on March 29, 2016 5:44PM
    "Argonians have fat, scaly tails." —Rissa Manyclaws.
    "Once upon a time there were three sisters: Delicious, Delightful, and Disgusting. Now, Delicious and Delightful were both very pretty girls..." —Brendalyn Jurarde.
    "I smell to the nobility." —Indrasa Avani.
    "A bargain with an animal is not a contract made." —Haderus Atrimus.
    "Redguard makeup for sale. Free samples. Secret ingredients. Unique application method. Lots of satisfied customers." —The Mudball Goblin (aka, Cognac Vinecroft)
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
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