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

  • KhajiitiLizard
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    Xendyn wrote: »
    Yes, yes it is.
    And we're going to throw a party when OP finally gets the game downloaded :p

    Then he's gonna log into the game and then crash.
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    I might discover that there's another big download after this 36600 MB download gets finished. I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
    "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." —HaderusAtrimus.
    "The mudballs are especially disgusting today." —The Mudball Goblin.
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • Garldeen
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    I think you need to download the patches in addition to the initial download
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    So I have to follow the trail of every previous imperfect version of ESO in order to arrive, eventually, at the current imperfect version of the game. I should have guessed.
    "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." —HaderusAtrimus.
    "The mudballs are especially disgusting today." —The Mudball Goblin.
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • Garldeen
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    When I say patches, I meant updates. The changes and dlc etc.
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    Okay. Either way, though, it means that the trip back will be longer than is shown in the graph. I'll have to think of a way to represent the extension of the journey.
    "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." —HaderusAtrimus.
    "The mudballs are especially disgusting today." —The Mudball Goblin.
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • Garldeen
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    Add a service station to stop off at :)
  • Danikat
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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.

    It's a (very) outdated convention.

    Back in ye olde days computers didn't have built in hard drives, just 1 or 2 floppy disk drives (and these were actually floppy, not the ones in solid plastic cases) so the main one that you'd run programs from was the A drive, and then you'd sometimes have a B drive too so you could save or copy data.

    When internal hard drives came along they were first used on that type of computer and the existing drives were already commonly referred to by their letters so the internal drive became C. And that set-up stuck around just long enough for the name to stick before the internal drive became the main one, the A drive became primarily a way of installing programs and copying data and the B drive disappeared all together.

    But it's possible to assign any letter to any drive. My computer actually does have an A and B drive, because I wanted to assign permanent letters to 2 external drives and it bothered me that those letters weren't being used. But when I get around to buying an SSD I want to reorganise so the main internal drive is A, the second one is B and so on in what I think is a sensible order.

    Or I might copy my friend whose main drive is Z and all the rest are labelled in reverse alphabetical order, just to be different.
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  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    I wonder if my computer has a SATA III port besides the one used by the teeny tiny 128 GB SSD it uses as a C drive. I haven't even cracked open the case yet. I just plugged in the cables and turned it on. If I have a free SATA III port, I'll buy a 1 TB SSD and plug it in there.
    "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." —HaderusAtrimus.
    "The mudballs are especially disgusting today." —The Mudball Goblin.
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • DaveMoeDee
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    Why no Twitch stream of download?
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    I didn't know about Twitch until 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." —HaderusAtrimus.
    "The mudballs are especially disgusting today." —The Mudball Goblin.
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    Captain's Log. Stardate 2457477.237. I have recently learned that the present journey is but one leg of a significantly longer trek across the dataverse. After we arrive at where ESO was in the beginning, we will have to travel along the path of the subsequent updates, until we arrive at ESO's present location in the galaxy. I can now only guess at our estimated time of arrival, but it might be late on April 3rd.
    Edited by goatlyonesub17_ESO on April 1, 2016 2:54PM
    "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." —HaderusAtrimus.
    "The mudballs are especially disgusting today." —The Mudball Goblin.
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    Captain's Log. Stardate 2457478.237. We have about one and a half days to go in this first leg, and then we will be were the ESO system was in the beginning. Then comes the update. Although I have no certainty about how long the update leg of our travels will be, I expect it to be at least half as long as the first part.
    Edited by goatlyonesub17_ESO on March 31, 2016 12:09PM
    "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." —HaderusAtrimus.
    "The mudballs are especially disgusting today." —The Mudball Goblin.
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    Captain's Log. Stardate 2457478.9. The Customer's downloading has been slowed by drag caused by friction with the internet medium. Perhaps some other download is causing interference. Today's position on the galactic map was estimated by extrapolation.
    Edited by goatlyonesub17_ESO on April 1, 2016 2:26PM
    "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." —HaderusAtrimus.
    "The mudballs are especially disgusting today." —The Mudball Goblin.
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    Captain's Log. Stardate 2457480.246. We've turned the corner. The lengthy first part of the ESO code finished downloading at Stardate 2457480.058. This section required approximately 12 minutes to apply. The first of the update parts, 193 MB long, has also been received and applied. The Customer is presently downloading the second of the updates, which is 6606 megabytes long and should be complete sometime tomorrow.

    (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.

    (6) 18:00 27 March. Remaining: 28155.46 MB.
    * Ave rate (since 3): 72.407 kbps. Time left: 4.501 days.

    (7) 20:38 27 March. Remaining: 27683.46 MB.
    * Ave rate (since 4): 74.537 kbps. Time left: 4.299 days.

    (8) 08:38 28 March. Remaining: 23739.46 MB.
    * Ave rate (since 4): 82.917 kbps. Time left: 3.314 days.

    (9) 13:15 28 March. Remaining: 22743.46 MB.
    * Ave rate (since 5): 82.383 kbps. Time left: 3.195 days.

    (10) 08:00 29 March. Remaining: 17319.46 MB.
    * Ave rate (since 8): 76.320 kbps. Time left: 2.627 days.

    (11) 13:20 29 March. Remaining: 15467.46 MB.
    * Ave rate (since 9): 83.922 kbps. Time left: 2.133 days.

    (12) 12:38 30 March. Remaining: 9639.46 MB.
    * Ave rate (since 11): 69.480 kbps. Time left: 1.606 days.

    (13) 12:38 31 March. Remaining: 4619.46 MB.
    * Ave rate (since 12): 58.102 kbps. Time left: 22.1 hours.

    (14) 09:24 01 April. First part of download completed.
    Download size (Part #1): 36679.46 MB.
    Download time (Part #1): 6.865 days.
    * Ave rate (since 1): 61.840 kbps.
    * Ave rate (since 10): 73.267 kbps.
    * Ave rate (since 13): 61.791 kbps.
    Applying Patch speed: ~ 51 Mbps.

    (15) 09:36 01 April. Started Part #2. 193.32 MB.
    (16) 10:07 01 April. Started Part #3. 6605.51 MB.

    The return of the Starship Customer.
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    Captain's Log, addendum: A bosmer crew member on the bridge, after hearing me record my log entry just now, asked "Isn't this exciting?" He pronounced that last word as "ex-sah-ting." I never can figure out when they are being sarcastic.
    Edited by goatlyonesub17_ESO on April 1, 2016 3:07PM
    "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." —HaderusAtrimus.
    "The mudballs are especially disgusting today." —The Mudball Goblin.
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
  • goatlyonesub17_ESO
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    Captain's Log, Stardate 2457481.125. The Customer has arrived at ESO Updated. The installation is complete, and we are ready to enter the game.

    (17) 08:49 02 April. Started Part #4. 41.50 MB.
    (18) 08:54 02 April. Started Part #5. 44.67 MB.
    (19) 09:00 02 April. Started Part #6. 129.63 MB.
    (20) 09:21 02 April. Started Part #7. 130.29 MB.
    (21) 09:43 02 April. Started Part #8. 4.30 MB.
    (22) 09:45 02 April. Started Part #9. 3.81 MB.

    ESO finished installing at 9:46 on 2 April.
    * Total size: 43832.49 MB.
    * Total time: 7.881 days
    * Average rate: 64.376 kbps
    Edited by goatlyonesub17_ESO on April 2, 2016 3:03PM
    "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." —HaderusAtrimus.
    "The mudballs are especially disgusting today." —The Mudball Goblin.
    "Your armor looks like underwear." —Shuns-the-Knife.
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