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#1 2013-01-14 17:18:53

MrFlash67
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Help with installing programs on drives other than the 'C' drive.

I am trying to install Python on a presumably 64-bit and entirely Win7Ultimate laptop, but the C drive has 6 gigs till it is full, so I was thinking of installing it on the 'D' drive. Would that have any problems, aside from possibly making it harder to launch?

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#2 2013-01-14 17:37:55

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Re: Help with installing programs on drives other than the 'C' drive.

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#3 2013-01-14 17:42:26

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Re: Help with installing programs on drives other than the 'C' drive.

MrFlash67 wrote:

I am trying to install Python on a presumably 64-bit and entirely Win7Ultimate laptop, but the C drive has 6 gigs till it is full, so I was thinking of installing it on the 'D' drive. Would that have any problems, aside from possibly making it harder to launch?

Uh.... on most computers, the D: drive is the CD/DVD drive. But if the D drive actually is a hard drive, it shouldn't cause any significant problems.

Also, 6 gigs is way more than enough for Python. For me, 2.6 takes 40MB and 3.2 takes 57.

EDIT: Oh, I see that it worked.  smile

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#4 2013-01-14 17:54:40

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Re: Help with installing programs on drives other than the 'C' drive.

fire219 wrote:

MrFlash67 wrote:

I am trying to install Python on a presumably 64-bit and entirely Win7Ultimate laptop, but the C drive has 6 gigs till it is full, so I was thinking of installing it on the 'D' drive. Would that have any problems, aside from possibly making it harder to launch?

Uh.... on most computers, the D: drive is the CD/DVD drive. But if the D drive actually is a hard drive, it shouldn't cause any significant problems.

Also, 6 gigs is way more than enough for Python. For me, 2.6 takes 40MB and 3.2 takes 57.

EDIT: Oh, I see that it worked.  smile

On mine, 'E' is the CD/DVD drive.


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#5 2013-01-14 17:59:21

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Re: Help with installing programs on drives other than the 'C' drive.

There shouldn't be any problem - most hard drives have more or less the same read/write speeds and are treated the same by the OS.

Python doesn't take much space (roughly 50 MB, as fire219 said), too, so you could even install it in C: with no problems.


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#6 2013-01-14 18:17:10

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Re: Help with installing programs on drives other than the 'C' drive.

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