Need D Drive to be Main Drive

[Drop That Ammo]

I am looking at buying this laptop http://www.costco.com/Lenovo-Ideapad-Y700-Laptop---Intel-Core-i7---1080p---4GB-Graphics.product.100292695.html for college although microsoft office which i will be using a lot i guess only will download and save to the C drive. Is there anyway to get this to the D drive (1tb)?

 

[smorizio]

when 3 party pc and laptops are formated for more then one drive letter due to a restore partion that on the hard drive. during normal installs click on custom install button and then change the install from c: to d: drive.

 

[boosted1g]

Since office 2013 Microsoft has used a click-to-run software that gives you no choice for download location.

You can set this to D drive permanently or just for the Office install and then set it back:
http://cdn.overclock.net/d/d6/350x700px-LL-d6444a74_8810320200_1381076452.jpeg

Now with that said, why do you want to install programs on your D drive for?
This creates a worst-scenario option where half of the files are on D drive, while the user appdata files and registry keys are on C. So basically your software is dependent on both drives to work and if either fails you have to reinstall.

 

[USAFRet]

1. MS Office takes about 3.5GB total.

2. I used to have a 120GB SSD, and it held the OS and a bunch of applications no probleem.

3. With that click to run, you do not get to choose where it installs to.

4. For any other application, you can choose where it installs to. But you probably won't need to. Applications do not take up that much space. 3 movies, or a single game, will take up more space than a whole bunch of applications.

5. Doc/music/video/downloads can easily be redirected to the other drive if desired. See this:
Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1 & 10: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html