Garmin 2008 Update needs 800 MB on C: drive - WTF?

My PC has windows on E: rather than C: because I always want to have a
small FAT partition with DOS on it. I've noticed over the years that
Garmin software insists on using C: and apparently cannot be changed.
This is simply VERY poor programming. When I tried to install my 2008
update it came back saying I needed 800 MB or so on my C: drive. Now I
have lots of free space on my windows drive and every other application
I use recognizes this just fine but not this Garmin crap. So I dug out
my old copy of Partition Magic and resized my partition - two hours shot
to hell - and then installed the 2008 update. It also updated the maps
in my 2720 just fine too.

These guys need to get with the program.
Jim
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Jim Sanchez - Tucson, AZ

Yes, very poor programming. Most installer routines give the user of
accepting default or custom. Custom gives an option to install to another
drive. I install all applications that are not necessary to booting into
Windows on another drive. You should be able to back up your C: drive in a
minute at most using most Ghost or Imaging software.

Norm

A minute? Do you have some super computer and super super fast hard
drive? Try a few hours with 100+GB of data on C Drive to create an
image.

: . You should be able to back up your C: drive in a
: minute at most using most Ghost or Imaging software.
:
: Norm

FYI, I use True Image which has an incremental image feature. After doing
the first full 70GB backup, my weekly incremental backups generally take
only 15-20 through a GB lan to a hard drive on another PC.

Bruce.

My C: and D: are my WD740GD a 10K rpm Raptor. Lovely drive.

Formatted for 10Megs on C: and the remainder on D. I have other drives but
these two are my main drives. The rest are for storage. For XP I install
ONLY repeat ONLY the OS, drivers, and necessary (and I mean necessary)
files and the few programmes I absolutely MUST have on the C: drive. Right
now my install is 3.1Gig.

Everything else goes on D: Office, PhotoShop, FlightSim etc. No point on
those being in the boot drive.

Now I can image the C drive in about 85 seconds.

There used to be a utility that moved a program lock stock and barrel to
another drive including changing every single reference in the registry. I
don't know if it is still around, free or what !

I'll have to give it a look.

Norm