Help with installing WoW on Windows Vista

[Cethia]

i just bought a new computer today, so i started to install all my programs etc and everything went kinda good, but when i was finished with instaling WoW and put my TBC CD in the drive i got a error messege telling me that i don't have any diskspace left.
I right klicked on the WoW folder and klicked on the Advanced button saw that everything was writeprotected took it off and still i dont have any diskspace. it seems i just can't take the writeprotected thingy off any of my folders/files.
anyone with a clue what to do?

[Narza]

Did you have to install everything from scratch? Or was windows vista installed as you got the computer ( most new comps come with vista)

As far as I see it the problem is that you don't actually have any space.
I have wow folder tagged as "read only" aswell but doubt thats the problem, windows puts all folders under "program files" read only.

So since you said it was a new computer and i presume it came with a nice large hard drive wich i doubt even you can fill in 1 day , and i have to presume you didn't visit too many questionable sites yet so didn't catch any nasty viruses yet. I see 4 options

1. You installed everything from scratch and screwed up something on windows partition phase ( windows gives this option when installing , you can divide your hard drive in 2 , 200GB and 20GB for example) and you've been installing programs on a smaller drive wich filled up fast.

2.Your brand new computer came with Windows wich allready had 2 drives ( in my case SYSTEM C: 225GB, DATA E: 50GB) and you installed all of your programs to the backup drive wich filled up fast.

3.You somehow either managed to buy a computer with a really really small hard drive or you have lots and lots of programs wich you installed 3 times per program under different names.

4. You've been using Burning crusade CD's as coffee cup coasters .


Solution: reinstall WOW to a drive wich has enough diskspace for both WOW and TBC, takes allmost 7GB for both.



:cool:

[Cethia]

hehe thanks for the tips Narza, but i got it working after reinstalling WoW on another harddrive :)