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Install Premiere Elements 2021 to a different drive then C:

Community Beginner ,
Dec 23, 2020 Dec 23, 2020

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Why this program will not let me install to a diffrent drive then C:

I would like to install this program on a portable WD 4tb

 

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Community Expert , Dec 24, 2020 Dec 24, 2020

Bad idea: C as in bootdrive is the way to go.

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Dec 23, 2020 Dec 23, 2020

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You may not install programs on a removeable drive due to the install process creating entries in the Windows registry (like an index in a book) and disconnecting the drive 'breaks' the registry links

 

You should be able to install to another internal drive

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Feb 23, 2022 Feb 23, 2022

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The registry entries really shouldn't be a problem; for starters the registry entries will only be accessed by either Photoshop or Windows. If the drive isn't there and therefore Photoshop isn't there, then Windows will simply either complain and then silently ignore it and you can't use Photoshop anyway if the drive isn't there. So breaking links simply shouldn't be an issue.

Further, Photoshop is a big old beast and on an inexpensive 128GB SSD it's a massive chunk of the drive, and 2TB external HDDs are considerably cheaper than nTB internal SSDs. A lot of people, myself included, are trying to limit the use of the internal drive to be a system drive plus absolutely necessary programs. Even Microsoft have accepted that their reliance on increasingly larger internal drives is folly.

There are some programs that do have a legitimate reason for insisting on being on an internal drive (Ubuntu for example effectively forms part of the Windows Subsystem for Linux) but they are few and far between, and for some of use a graphics program - which is incidental to our day-to-day computer use - is not one of them.

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Photoshop? This is the Premiere Elements forum! PrE is a NLE.

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Bad idea: C as in bootdrive is the way to go.

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