Office 2007 B2TR Failing due to lack of disk space

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Rich

I have a unique situation. I have 2 partitions in my computer and
unfortunately my C: isn't that big (500MB free). I have office 2007 installed
on D: which has about 30GB free but the updater keeps writing lots of stuff
to the C: drive and runs out of space. When I rebooted, C: no longer has any
space left (about 40MB) and I can't tell where the office installer wrote the
files to, so that I can remove them. In my environment settings TEMP and TMP
both point to d:\temp, but something isn't working correctly. I really wish
that MS would quit always writing stuff to the C: and be a little more
flexible. I know that I could re-partition this computer, but years ago 4GB
C: drives were big.... I know in the installation docs it says that you need
2GB free; how do I force the upgrade to use D: instead of C:?
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

You can't - if you don't have the drive space on C:, then you cannot install the program.

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After furious head scratching, Rich asked:

| I have a unique situation. I have 2 partitions in my computer and
| unfortunately my C: isn't that big (500MB free). I have office 2007
| installed on D: which has about 30GB free but the updater keeps
| writing lots of stuff to the C: drive and runs out of space. When I
| rebooted, C: no longer has any space left (about 40MB) and I can't
| tell where the office installer wrote the files to, so that I can
| remove them. In my environment settings TEMP and TMP both point to
| d:\temp, but something isn't working correctly. I really wish that MS
| would quit always writing stuff to the C: and be a little more
| flexible. I know that I could re-partition this computer, but years
| ago 4GB C: drives were big.... I know in the installation docs it
| says that you need 2GB free; how do I force the upgrade to use D:
| instead of C:?
 

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