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Mihai Scurtu
Mihai Scurtu

Reputation: 1478

How to change a .msi installer's extraction folder?

I have a .msi installer that needs 3 gigs in the C drive, to unpack (I assume). My %TEMP% and %TMP% are on a different volume, so the space needed should be there.

Does anyone know an easy way to change the unpack path?

Note: I'm running Windows 7 x64.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 19704

Answers (2)

slugster
slugster

Reputation: 49974

You can first extract the contents of the msi to a temp folder, then run it from there:

msiexec /a [path to my.msi] TARGETDIR=d:\temp

Upvotes: 4

ismail
ismail

Reputation: 47572

You can manually extract the *.msi file with;

msiexec /a <name>.msi TARGETDIR=<path> /qb

Upvotes: 5

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