I have a 901 eeePC that has only 4 gbs. I use an 8 GB SD card to install most of my programs and was running AVG from there. I tried to install AVAST on that machine but it won’t allow me to install it on the card? Is there a way that I can make AVAST run from my D: drive, which is an 8 gb SD card?
Isn’t the second flash device considered a drive in the same way a second HDD would be, at least that is what I believe to be the case.
If not I doubt if AVG would have run from there because it isn’t a portable application, it has to be installed and there would be registry entries for it in C:\
I honestly can’t answer that question, I have installed AVIRA on it and right now it is doing a scan, it did the D: drive first then it went to the C: drive to scan so apparently it sees both drives. I don’t like AVIRA though because it is using up too much resources for that small machine. If I can’t get AVAST to run on my D: drive I may end up going back to AVG.
If this drive is actually a removable usb flash disk then I doub’t that avast would install.
There are ways to trick the OS into believing ‘removalbe’ media is in fact fixed, though I can’t recall how that is done, I remember reading somthing about this in a magazine some time ago.
I gave up and installed AVAST on the C:drive for now. On the eeePC forum they give instructions on how to make it look like a hard drive, but I don’t want to go into it right now. Thank you for your interest.
No problem, glad I could help.
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