Hi Re-Na (just remembered you never got an answer for this) > I DID the regular install and told it to install to the external. It > put part on the one drive, and part on the C: drive. The drivers were > on the C: drive. > I had trouble copying that over. Once I finally got it all to the > external drive, then it gave me an error <can't recall now what it was> > that it could not open. Why don't you want anything on the C drive? I'm sure that most of the application went to where you told it to, so only very little is on the C drive. I have no idea why OpenOffice would install some stuff on C despite being told to install elsewhere, but i'm sure that moving stuff around manually will break the installation. When any program installs parts it needs in a certain place, it will look for those parts there, not where you manually moved them. > My hard drive on the external is MUCH bigger than the one on the > laptop.... so it would be nice if it would have worked the first try. If you don't have enough room on C, you want to make sure you don't break installations by moving parts around because then uninstalls will probably be interrupted and will waste space by leaving other stuff you didn't even notice. -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.