Install LabView 2019 on hard drive other than C:

[SEM-Inovation]

Hi ,

The KB is broken.

I will appreciate if you will fix it.

Thanks in advance.

Doron

[SEM-Inovation]

Hi,

The KB IS broken.

I will appreciate if you will fix it.

Thanks in advance.

Doron

[HKPhysicist]

Installing LabView for Windows on Drive C is mandatory.

It is because Windows System Image Backup will include any harddisk on which LabView resides.

It is my experience.  Unless you do not run Windows System Image Backup, but why?

[playerm1]

Symbolic Link for "NIFPGA" folder:

https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z000000kI3ASAU&l=en-US

I have done this for multiple installs of LabVIEW with the full FPGA toolkits.  NIFPGA is one of the larger folders in the LabVIEW IDE install, and it helped free up a lot of space on my C:\ drive.  Seems to have worked well without any issues so far (~2 years).

Also, another big space hog is if you have created any installer build specifications and had LabVIEW cache the installation media on your machine.  Its useful to speed up those builds, but can take quite a bit of space to hold that media.  You can perform the same symbolic link procedure for those locations, as well.  Cached installation media paths can be viewed from the installer build spec properties >> additional installers >> uncheck "automatically select recommended installers" >> select installer component.  The path will be listed under the indication "installer source location".

[jmpolk]

The link is broken. What is the new link?

[RavensFan]

The link works for me!

[altenbach]

I reported the link as broken and they must have fixed. It was broken yesterday. 😉

[jmpolk]

This link is not working:

https://knowledge.ni.com/ArticleErrorPage?id=kA00Z0000015BtzSAE&language=en_US

[RavensFan]

That link takes you to an error screen.  See how it includes "ArticleErrorPage"?  It may be the link you get when the original link fails to load, that it redirects to that screen.

But the link in message 14   https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z000000kI3ASAU&l=en-US   still works for me.

[JCooper509]

That link works for me, but the link in post 6 (that's marked as the solution) does not.