I am trying to install Avast into a custom folder of my choosing. I have a 2nd hard drive where I keep all of my personal data & 3rd party programs as the hard drive where I have Windows 10 Home is installed is reserved for the operating system & games. I am trying to install the program to my 2nd hard disk as D:\Programs, but the program gives the following error when I do:
Avast cannot be installed into the folder you entered.(The directory cannot be used as an installation folder)
I was able to install it to the directory I specified above on a previous Windows 10 installation using the same current version of the software, & I just re-installed the operating system due to an unrelated problem w/Windows I was having, and the 2nd hard disk is working as I just copied some pictures & music to it. The program shouldn’t be only designed to install into the default C:\Program Files folder, because as I already explained I had it installed to D:\programs before (I have formatted & partitioned it when I re-installed Windows, so there shouldn’t be any conflicts at all).
Can someone please help me to fix this problem because I can’t think of anything that could be causing this error other than a conflict with a previous install of Avast, but I have already formatted & partitioned the 2nd drive (standard one - i.e. in the Disk Manager, it is listed as “healthy, primary partition”), & this being a brand new install of the operating system. I am using the 64-bit version of Windows 10 Home, BTW.
