Selecting a Hard Drive

It is important to make sure that you have enough hard disk space available on the hard disk that you want to install the game to. Another factor that may hinder the ability of a game to install to a designated drive is the size of the swap file A file stored on the computer hard disk drive that is used as a temporary location to store information that is not currently being used by the computer RAM. It is perfectly normal for the swap file or page file to grow in size, sometimes growing several hundred megs in size.  that is needed by Windows XP’s Virtual Memory Virtual memory is hard drive space that Windows sets aside as cache.  Windows will be able to offload items from main RAM so that it can still be accessed by the program again.. Set aside an absolute minimal 100 megabytes of free space on your designated swap drive regardless of what partition you are installing the game to.  By design our games will not install reliably to removable drives such as Zip drives.  

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EA Tech Tip:

If you are trying to select a drive other than C: which has plenty of space but you are still getting an error it may be that the game still needs space on your C: drive.  Things such a DirectX and Windows swap files often will need space on C: by default.