Insufficient Disk Space to Install: WRONG

[Phainein Terra]

Greetings. I'm trying to install the most recent flash player 9.0.45 on an
elderly computer. It currently has 7.0.19 installed. I am minorly computer
savvy but staying with a friend who is not and her computer is an OLD HP
running Windows XP. I've downloaded the installer but receive this error during
installation:

You do not have sufficient disk space to complete this installation.
Please free 5000k and try again.[

This drive currently has 1.47 GB of free space. I'm baffled. Any help?

[Darren McNally - Adobe]

Hi Phainein Terra,

Please see the following forum for possible solutions to this issue:

[url]http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=194&threadid=1259429[/url]

[Darren McNally - Adobe]

I apologize; it appears that link above is no longer active. I have paraphrased
the workaround below.

It sounds like the "C:\" drive is being checked as your primary drive but you
may be using another drive as your primary. When it checks for available disk
space on the ?C:\? it returns the error.

Try the following to work around this issue:

1. Select Start and choose Run
2. Type in ?cmd?
3. Execute the following commands:
4. subst c: x:\
where x:\ is your an primary drive
5. This will create a virtual drive c: from x:
6. Install Flash Player
7. After installation, type the following into the command window :
8. subst c: /d
9. This will delete c: as a virtual drive.

[Artur Buchhorn]

I have the same problem. But my drive has over 10 GB of free space. And the program acknowledges that my main drive is G.

Windows XP

Thanks

[HonFL]

Hi, I just had the same problem with ::

You do not have sufficient disk space to complete this installation. Please
free 5000k and try again.

as I was trying to install most recent flash player for Opera, I uninstalled
Opera and once I re-installed Opera that problem was gone and I installed
9.0.45 no problem right away.

Hope that helps, HonFL

[scott_mickey]

The Adobe Flash installer for Windows version "9,0,45,0" checks the
available space on drive C:\. If there is less than 5 MB available
installation will fail. It fails silently on MSIE 6 with only the
message: "Installation Failed [Try Again] or [Cancel]".
With Firefox it actually says there is not enough space.
This is a BUG in the Adobe installer. Windows programming 101 says
"NEVER hardcode drive letters". The installation program should be
checking one of these environment varibles:
HOMEDRIVE=E:
ProgramFiles=E:\Program Files
SystemDrive=E:
SystemRoot=E:\WINNT
windir=E:\WINNT
As you can see, on my machine Windows is installed on drive E:\.
This is a Dell PC with a new reinstall of Windows XP SP2.
I did a fresh install, not an upgrade or repair.
For some reason Windows XP selected my ZIP-250 removable disk as
drive C:, the CDROM drive as D:, and the hard disk as E:\.
-No big deal, as I don't care if Windows is installed on E: instead
of C:. The point is that Windows did this, not me. I assume a
lot of other computers out there have the same configuration.
Since no removable disk was in the ZIP-250 drive, the space
available on C:\ was 0 MB (zero MB).
I put a ZIP disk in the drive, and Flash Player installed for
Firefox with no problems. I removed the ZIP disk, and tried the
MSIE 6 install again and got the same error:
"Installation Failed [Try Again] or [Cancel]".
I shoved the ZIP disk into the drive, clicked [Try Again], and it
installed. Geez! -That was 2 hours I'll never get back!
Windows has been out for nearly 20 years now, and some programmers
still don't know to use the environment varibles? I CANNOT believe
anyone would hardcode "C:\" into an installation program.
Why check for disk space anyway? Just install and tell backout
if things go south. Also, the "subst C: E:\" work-around suggested
earlier did not work on my system. Likely because C: already was
present. I haven't used subst since the 1980's on a DOS program.
Such a work-around is inexcusable.
Scott Mickey