Hi everyone,
So I know that this topic has been discussed many times already, but the thing is, I have 2 disks, a 250GB SSD and a 500GB HDD, since I wanted WoW to load fast, I tried installing it in my SSD which has 94GB available… When I start WoW’s installation I’m told that I need “65.20GB” of free space, I have them, and still can’t get to install it completely, by when installation reaches around 75-80% my disk is already full and can’t keep on with the installation.
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Is there anything regarding the installation itself being temporarily saved on the disk making it reach it’s maximum capacity before installation finishes?
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Why is that so many people had this issue before?
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Why those “65.20GB” don’t seem to be accurate at all?
Yes, a number of programs/games do use C:\windows\temp. Or temporary space on the boot drive. Some can use 40 gig or more of temporary space. Also having a page file.
You could install it to say D\Games, and then copy it to C:\Games, then point the launcher to the new location.
I haven’t installed WoW in a long time, I always keep a backup on the storage drive. And I keep it relatively undated.
This has nothing to do with it. Your OS needs a certain amount of free space to do things. You CAN change the amount of space it uses (which, if those tasks are large, will make them take longer). You’re better off installing as littlew as possible to your OS drive as you can. That’s really the purpose of having multiple drives anyway.
It’s not a WoW thing, it’s a computer thing.
Hard drives are divided by 1000 when they are listed for sale but in actuality, the number is 1028 in physical terms. So a 1 GB HD isn’t ACTUALLY 1 GB, it’s slightly less.
It’s a marketing trick they’ve been using forever.
You can safely run WoW off the second drive and it will work just fine. I have almost all of my games on a secondary HDD that clocks in a 2.72 TB physical space.
I also bought an external “8 TB” drive (which clocks in at 7.27 TB) for files not related to programs.