DTM alternate-drive installation fails (Sometimes?)
Hopefully this stops someone out there from duplicating my recent mistake. DTM warns of needing 300GB to install (although that’s not true), and I didn’t have anything like that much space on the drive I had installed the OS onto. So, I chose to install on E: instead, which had more (but not quite 300GB!) space. All seemed to go well.
Then, I tried to install a couple of QFE’s (which, if you run DTM, you should check for regularly). The QFE installer told me my version wasn’t compatible with the patch, and it quit. It turns out that the problem was simply that it was looking for the DTM version number in a file on the C: drive, which is what %ProgramFiles% evaluates to on my computer, rather than on the E: drive where the file actually was. A complete re-install onto C: fixed the problem.
Someone on the DTM newsgroup tried to repro this and couldn’t, so this obviously isn’t universally broken, but I don’t think I’ll mess with alternate-drive installations any more - I don’t want to risk the 1hr re-install time. Again.
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