Issues with installing CoH to External Hard drive
By
avilancer,
Posted on: 2010-05-30 09:07 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Right-click your My Computer icon (or just Computer on the Start list in Windows 7 and possibly Vista) and select Manage.
Click on Disk Management. Right-click on your External drive in the list and select Change Drive Letter and Paths. Set it to a specific drive letter that you'll likely never reach, such as X.
Now, Copy and paste the cohupdater.exe file to your Desktop. Don't create a shortcut to it, just copy and paste. When you want to run the game, click THAT icon on your desktop. The first time it may ask where to install it so just point it to the X drive.
The reason you are getting that error is that one of the files it is trying to update is the cohupdater.exe file itself and since that file is in use, it can't update it. Yeah, the error message isn't really clear, but Microsoft has never been known to be really clear in any of their error messages.
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ah ha.... interesting... well that would explain what the issue was.
Thanks alot for the insight and the heads up.
Ok so The issue i'm having i don't understand.
. When i ran the updater is told me it it was going to install it to \C: i told it "No" and selected \J: it then told me i didnt have sufficiant privilages or i was out of room. neither were true i'm on the admin account and have well over 400gigs left of space on the HD. I just said F it and deleted everything CoH related off my HD and Dled the installer again and just did a fresh install to the \J: drive... it worked fine since i guess there was no preexisting CoH data.
I originally just copied my CoH program folder to my external HD (\J
so all was well, untill i tried to run it again from the external HD a few days later. Which had now become \I: because of less things plugged into my network. So i Ran the updater from the HD and AGAIN it said it was going to install the game to \C: again i told it "No" and told it to select \I: hoping it would see that all the files were there already and AGAIN it told me i was out of room or didnt have the right to make changes... so now i had to delete all the CoH files off my HD again, and let it do a fresh install... again...
So whats the deal? why wont the updater work correctly? why cant it let me choose a drive where the game is already installed? why wont it reconize that the Files are ALREADY there?
and how can i make the game work consistantly off my external HD? I mean it runs fine, after installing it again, but having to install it everytime is really getting old.