Installing TBE on non c drive
by Ed Brown · in Technical Issues · 07/28/2005 (3:55 pm) · 5 replies
OK.
My windows system came with the root drive of H:
With the TBE Installer I choose H:\TBE - but it still tries to install on C:\
C:\ is a smart card reader.
I tried making a shortcut on c:\TBE to h:\TBE to fake it out.. but it creates a new non-shortcut folder TBE and fills up the smart card.
Why doesn't the "browse" option on TBE 0.6 work? Or is there a way to fake it (link somehow?).
Any help is appreciated.
My windows system came with the root drive of H:
With the TBE Installer I choose H:\TBE - but it still tries to install on C:\
C:\ is a smart card reader.
I tried making a shortcut on c:\TBE to h:\TBE to fake it out.. but it creates a new non-shortcut folder TBE and fills up the smart card.
Why doesn't the "browse" option on TBE 0.6 work? Or is there a way to fake it (link somehow?).
Any help is appreciated.
#2
Open cmd and type help to retrieve what's the right command.
Bye, Thc.
07/29/2005 (6:31 am)
If you can disable the smartcard, even temporarily, you could map your h:\ as c:\, or (and that's better) install TBE in h:\fakec\tbe and map the fakec directory as c:\ using windows' cmd. (dos box)Open cmd and type help to retrieve what's the right command.
Bye, Thc.
#3
Here are some useful items for anyone else who may encounter a similar problem.
http://www.easydos.com/subst.html
and
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307844&sd=tech
I figure I'll change C: to something like I:
Then try and permanently SUBST H: and C:
that way anything that needs to default to C: can in the future.
If it works I'll post results here.
07/29/2005 (7:32 am)
I'll try this over the weekend. I figured I could disable drive, re-map etc. But didn't know if it was possible to simply get TBE wizard to recognize the other path.Here are some useful items for anyone else who may encounter a similar problem.
http://www.easydos.com/subst.html
and
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307844&sd=tech
I figure I'll change C: to something like I:
Then try and permanently SUBST H: and C:
that way anything that needs to default to C: can in the future.
If it works I'll post results here.
#4
1) I changed the drive letter of the c: drive to i:
2) I created map_c_drive.bat and placed the followng single line in it "SUBST c: h:\".
3) I placed it in the starup folder.
Now I have both h: and c: pointing to the same physical disk. This will alleviate any problems wiht installing any software which relies on the c: drive being the "main" os drive.
07/29/2005 (1:31 pm)
Works slick.1) I changed the drive letter of the c: drive to i:
2) I created map_c_drive.bat and placed the followng single line in it "SUBST c: h:\".
3) I placed it in the starup folder.
Now I have both h: and c: pointing to the same physical disk. This will alleviate any problems wiht installing any software which relies on the c: drive being the "main" os drive.
Torque Owner Ed Brown