Disk management help

Bettingmad

I have recently completed a clean install of Windows 7 on a new 320GB hard drive, I made a partition of 20GB for Windows 7 which is labelled C drive, I have un the region of 290GB drive space which is labelled 'E'. My problem is that any new programmes are being saved to the 'C' drive instead of the empty 'E' drive. How can I fix this. Thanks in advance.

seedyh

You should be able to specify the install path on install.. make you sure don't do 'express/quick/easy' installs etc. They'll default to C:.

Bettingmad

seedyh wrote: »

You should be able to specify the install path on install.. make you sure don't do 'express/quick/easy' installs etc. They'll default to C:.

Thanks for the quick reply, can I ask is there a way of defaulting the the larger drive and not the one that stores the operating system? is it a case of changing the drive destination letters? it's my daughters laptop and I fear when she downloads it will always be the express/quick/easy installs.

seedyh

Try this

http://www.intowindows.com/change-default-installation-directory-in-windows-7-vista/