Adobe Lightroom installation on a different hard drive

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im looking at downloading the trial version of Lightroom & photoshop, but can't find a way of installing it on my main drive,mwhich is a nearly full 250GB SSD. I want to install it on a second 2TB drive instead. Anyone else had this problem and can suggest a solution? I'm not the best with computers and I'm sure there must be a way.
 
Is it a PC or Mac, that you are installing it on?
 
Is your Ssd drive REALLY full?, I would recommend leaving the installation of PS and Light-room on the Ssd for speed, but change the default settings for your Pictures/Library to another drive. You can choose where you save your files whilst importing files.
 
Seems like lots of users are having this same problem, its looking like a bug with the Creative cloud installer. This video here provides a way of moving the default location of the light room directory:

 
No problem, i hope it helps, i have a similar set-up as yourself, i have a Raid 0 set of 4 x 256gb (1tb total) ssd's as my boot drive, and a "spacey" 4tb data/storage drive. So even though most of my installs go to "C" drive, i do keep all my other weighty installs/personal folders on the bigger drive
 
I just have a 250gb SSD with my operating system on, a 1TB hard drive and a 2TB hard drive. Think I'll have to do a bit of housekeeping and clear some rubbish out. Any idea how big the installed files are?
 
Umm, hold on will have a look for you.
 
Right, my C:\Program Files\Adobe folder is just over 6gb, but i have the complete Photographer's Creative cloud package in there including Bridge CC.
The Light room and Photoshop sub-directories are about 3gb. so about another 3gb for the CC support files /essential other stuff plus bridge.
 
Many thanks - I've got 9GB free . I've discovered my iTunes library is on the SSD so will look at finding a way to move that.
 
Depending on how you initially set up Win 7, you might need to leave some free space on the boot drive( About half the value in gb of your total ram size) for windows to use as swap space, i have found with ssd's (and small hard drives in the dim distant past, lol), if you absolutely max them out to the last couple of hundred mb's of space, then windows 7 crawls to almost a stop.
As long as you leave a gb or two free, then you should be ok.
 
Thanks - moved my 60gb iTunes drive off the SSD. Easier to do than I thought! Many thanks for the help.
 
That's Okay. Glad to have helped.
 
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