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Hard Drive Failure: Now Install Location Option Unavailable - FreemanActual - 09-30-2024
I recently had an old platter based 1tb drive fail. It was my D: drive. Gimp was on it.
Now when I attempt to reinstall Gimp on my new Solid State Drive "F:" the wizard doesn't offer location for install options.
Anyone else experience this?
I have no idea where the instruction for installing gimp on the now missing "D:" drive is being derived from... Even deleting the REGEDIT folder for GIMP did not stop the "pre installed at D:" issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
RE: Hard Drive Failure: Now Install Location Option Unavailable - rich2005 - 09-30-2024
(09-30-2024, 05:46 AM)FreemanActual Wrote: I recently had an old platter based 1tb drive fail. It was my D: drive. Gimp was on it.
Now when I attempt to reinstall Gimp on my new Solid State Drive "F:" the wizard doesn't offer location for install options.
Anyone else experience this?
I have no idea where the instruction for installing gimp on the now missing "D:" drive is being derived from... Even deleting the REGEDIT folder for GIMP did not stop the "pre installed at D:" issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
There is this post about a registry entry: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Cannot-reinstall-Gimp-on-different-drive-resolved?pid=37254#pid37254
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\GIMP-2_is1
...and this one where Gimp exists https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Installation-issue?pid=40321#pid40321
Guessing that although the Gimp installation folder is gone, there might still be some an entry in the Windows uninstall menu. If there is try and un-install and Windows asks to remove the entry.
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This seems to work, worth a try: Gimp is on Drive E The registry entry looks like this:
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Delete that entry, run the Gimp installer, Customise Option, Choose a location.