thanks keith,
as it happened whan all was said and done it left me with 500mb not the 270 it had originally said. i have now moved onto trying to install sql ce but thats not happening too easily and it was time to go home hours ago.
~M

>Mark,
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>That 1.1 GB is probably the framework 2.0. I don't think that it is movable.
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>Can you transfer some ballast to another partition? There's a lot of temp files that will get deleted at the end of installation. It may be enough.
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>>yes you may:) the physical drive is 30gb but only 5 is for the program files and os, nothing else is installed on c, now only xp and a couple of small programs. i did a custom install and removed sql express which even though i have specified d will only install on c, i also removed crystal, v# and c++. it will install now and leave me with a nice 270mb on c:) i am having a look at partition tools now that can recombine c and d.
>>~M
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>>>Can I be the first smartalec that says get a bigger drive? :P
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>>>>hi all,
>>>>i am trying to install VS 2005 from msdn onto a pc in the office. it has a 5gb c drive and lots of room on the other dirves. but free space on the c drive is 900mb and there is nothing more i can remove but when i try to install vs2005 it says that no matter where i want to put the files, d drive for example, it still wants to put 1.1 gb of files on the c drive. does anyone know of a way around this?
>>>>~M