How do I download a program without any space on my hard-drive?

I've run out of space on my hard drive since it's only 30GB. I'm trying to download Adobe Photoshop CS4 onto my external hard-drive but it keeps saving it to the common files folder on my C: drive which is full up. The download will not work and it will keep saying that I have run out of space.

How could I change the location the download from Firefox is sent to and does it automatically send it to the Program Files Folder?How do I download a program without any space on my hard-drive?
Tell it to load to your x drive. x being whatever your external drive is.How do I download a program without any space on my hard-drive?
to free up space on the C: hard drive delete any unwanted programs/ defrag the hard drive/

or you could plug in an external hard drive then copy all you music/photos/films to this external hard drive freeing up valuable space on the primary hard drive C:/.
You wont be able to install it anyway irrespective where you download it to because it is as it says the hard drive is out of ';free'; space. Programs like that have to be installed on the main hard drive.



What you are forgetting [although you don't say what OS you have to start with] certain space requirements are set aside by the OS which basically cannot be changed.



Like for instance Vista requires 15 GB of free space to operate. 10% of your drives capacity is set aside so you can defrag the drive. 12% which is the maximum setting of your drives capacity is set aside for restore points.



You seriously need to get a new hard drive and install it internally as a slave drive and run your programs from that. External drives are only meant for data storage and not running programs on.
Tools-%26gt;Options-%26gt;[Main]-%26gt;[Download]-%26gt;



From that you have a choice of whether to select a default location for Firefox to always save to (like it does by default with the Downloads folder) or ask it to ';Always ask me where to save files';.



Also just a note, I know all the previous answers didn't actually provide an answer to your question (';How could I change the location the download from Firefox is sent to and does it automatically send it to the Program Files Folder?';) and instead banged on about other crap, but one or two make a valid point; if you are running out of valuable space on the main hard-drive, you should copy some trivial files over (in computing terms not sentimental user!) like music, videos and pictures. One final note, you might be better off saving the download onto the main hard-drive, just in case, because saving directly to an external can some times be a bit of a pain. And dude, your really going to have to free up some space for Adobe!



Good luck!
To put it simply, you can't.

well, you can save the install file to an external drive by changing firefox's settings...but you won't be able to install it without any disk space on C:

solution 1; use windows built in disk cleaning utility, also delete programs and files you no longer need, to try and free up disk space.

solution 2 (best); buy a new HDD. you can get hard drive's relatively cheap these days, especially on ebay. providing your PC has a spare IDE or SATA port, you can just open up the PC, plug the new HDD in, and format it. then install new programs to that HDD, or alternatively...move you files over to the new HDD thus freeing up space on C:
save it and install it to the back up drive,that should work