Make sure you download Diablo II and Diablo II Lord of Destruction (in English) and install both before proceeding: 1. Download the Path of Diablo Launcher installation file linked below. Select your Diablo II installation folder before clicking next. This step is crucial. Open the Path of. Then its just up to install another, since the path is different, your pc wont detect the first installation of d2. Click to expand. I have no idea how you do that, it always says 'only one copy of Diablo II may run at a time'.

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My friend is trying to install Diablo 3 in his windows 7. But he kind of messed up a little with his partitions.

All his files (and also extra space) are in the drive A, but his OS (windows 7) is running from drive C

Every time he tries to install Diablo, he change to drive A but it says 'invalid directory' and doesn't save anything there, but instead, it suggest the drive C (where there is no space left).

Could it be because A is originally for Floppy disk? How could he fix it?

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My guess is that the installer is based off of some ancient technology developed in Blizzard's dark ages and, as you suspected, you cannot install on either a drive lettered A or B. As noted, this is because these were the floppy or other external media drives from a long time ago, and it simply won't recognize them as a valid install location.

You must change the drive letter to something NOT A-C (D is always a wonderful choice) in order to install Diablo III and commence the looting.

Try subst:

Path Of Diablo Install Guide

Simply go to a command prompt and type

Then install to D:.

Once it's installed, move it wherever you actually want it.

Assuming his drives are both formatted NTFS, you can try using the mklink command described here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

I would do that with whatever folder he will be installing into, and then run the installer.

Although a different situation, I use this trick to move games that I already have installed on my HDD onto an SSD without re-installing them.

Effectively, you can make a folder on 1 drive look like it's actually a folder on another drive. This is done at a very low level in the NTFS filesystem API, so the end-user software doesn't even seem to know. I was worried this could agitate sensitive applications (i.e. PunkBuster), but it doesn't.

Have you tried right clicking on the Diablo III setup file and choosing 'run as administrator'? I had the same issue and 'run as admin..' solved it and it installed just fine.

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