How to install oculus on disk d

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‎12-25-2016 10:12 PM

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‎12-25-2016 11:09 PM

The Oculus software does NOT like exchanging drives or changing partitions around even if the drive names stay the same. But the fix is easy:

Deinstall Oculus from Programs/Software.
Then re-install Oculus again (download/run setup from their site) and specify where your games/apps are. (In my case G:\Oculus)
It will then re-read everything you already downloaded/installed.

Then go to your Oculus library from the software (not in VR) and then you see the icons for your stuff, but not 100% installed yet. Click on one, «Finish Install» and then it will finish the install of all your software in one go. (Takes a little, and Oculus is then unresponsive for a minute or so and then it will pop-up all these things on your taskbar like «XYZ finished installing».) Give it a minute or so and it becomes responsive again.

So you do actually not lose anything and you also don’t have the re-download stuff. (That is, assuming you copied the content from your old HD to the new one and it’s still on the drive)

‎12-27-2016 08:03 PM

‎12-27-2016 11:16 PM

There is another «trick» you can do, like when you run out of space. I in fact *just* did this.
Go to your old folder, like in my case G:\Oculus and copy (from Windows) the entire folder to your new drive. (Eg. you make a new K:\Oculus folder on your new drive).

Now, delete the entire old G:\Oculus folder

In Windows, go into CMD, CD to your old drive (where you just deleted your Oculus folder) make a Symbolic Link (in this case a Directory Junction) to the folder on your new drive, like:

MKLINK /J Oculus K:\Oculus

It then creates the link in the old folder but it points to the location on your new drive.

For Oculus and the OS, it looks like the old folder but physically the stuff is now on the new drive. And it doesn’t require a reinstall.

Edit: And HECK I just got another 250GB SSD and the both 250GB SSDs are almost full again, thanks mostly to 100GB which my Prepare3D folder alone takes. Now take 35GB or so BF4, 35GB Tomb Raider etc. then Oculus downloads etc. is just crazy what games/apps need nowadays.

‎12-28-2016 12:50 AM

‎01-03-2018 11:14 PM

To get Oculus to see already downloaded games:

1. Optional: Make a symlink of the Oculus directory (see flexy123’s comment above)
2. Drop your existing games from backup/Software directory into the new NewDrive:\Oculus\Staging directory
3. Relaunch the Oculus App, navigate to library and hit the download button

So, I have 2 drives on my computer and I had used VRbackupper to move to the secondary. After which, everything seemed to be working fine—until I downloaded some new games and they didn’t install. After troubleshooting this I was able to get the new game to work, but then every other app/game reported «not installed». For the life of me I couldn’t get it to work. I even uninstalled the Oculus app and re-installed it, pointed at my secondary drive. I also tried all the different symlinks and tricks (basically, everything listed above), though, still, I was unable to get the Oculus app to recognize my games.

I realized that I needed to make a symlink for the entire Oculus directory from my primary drive to my secondary drive, like flexy123 does in the comment above (just to get them off my primary, which is currently running out of space).

After this I still had the same issue though. I could now download new games or re-download games I already bought, but with my crap internet that would have taken eons. I tried dropping the game files from my backup folder into the Software folder(s). Even restarted my computer after but still no luck.

However, after some tests and sanity checks I realized that if you drop your game folders into D :\Oculus\Staging and then relaunch the Oculus app and hit the install button, that Oculus sees the game as if it is downloaded and then proceeds with the rest of the «install». So, at least in January of 2018 it seems like Oculus has a little extra road block in the way. But, after adding already downloaded into the right path I was able to get my games back at a fraction of the time it would have taken otherwise.

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‎08-03-2017 11:00 AM

numerous times. Whenever I enter » OculusSetup /drive:F» into Run, Windows replies something similar to:

«Windows cannot find ‘OculusSetup’. Please check your spelling and try again.»

If anyone has suggestions for installing on separate drives, any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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‎06-19-2019 08:20 PM

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‎06-19-2019 10:54 PM

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‎06-26-2019 07:29 PM

So none of the above worked for me. I got an error that said it had to have minimum GB (which it did) and had to be NTFS (which it was). I did all the admin cmd tricks above nothing worked. I ended up going into diskmgmt.msc and seeing the difference between my disks. One was Basic, one was Dynamic. I didn’t need the info on my Dynamic drive so I deleted the volume. Once you do that you can right click the Disk at the bottom and «convert from dynamic to basic». Once you have done that you can recreate a partition it will be Basic. Then copy the cmd stuff from above and it works.

I imagine there are other similar ways maybe just adding another basic partition etc but the main thing is it has problems with Dynamic partitions.

‎07-07-2019 02:16 AM

Are you serious? And you guys place this on the C: drive by default and people have to use CMD to change the install path?

This software is crazy annoying!!

I have a dedicated SSD for OS. 60 GB but that’s plenty for OS. Oculus Home is on C: drive too as back in the days when I installed there was no way to install on another drive.

I looked up this thread in google trying to find out how to install to another drive because now it does this:

Can you post a picture of the guy who designed the software? I would like to see.

Now I will remove the software (if the above mentioned guy was able to implement a way to remove it completely) and try one of the many different ideas in this thread to install on a different drive.

Oculus Community Community

‎08-03-2017 11:00 AM

numerous times. Whenever I enter » OculusSetup /drive:F» into Run, Windows replies something similar to:

«Windows cannot find ‘OculusSetup’. Please check your spelling and try again.»

If anyone has suggestions for installing on separate drives, any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

‎12-06-2019 09:48 PM

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‎02-18-2020 11:33 PM

Ok looks like I have a different issue, mine is complaining that I can’t install it at the location even though it is a local drive:

Gives me the following (In swedish and roughly translated):
The selected drive cannot be chosen. It does not fulfill the requirements: Oculus needs 19.1 GB on a internal NTFS-device. Choose another or visit support.

Now the weird thing is that it is internal and it is most definitely a NTFS formatted HDD. It is running in RAID so I’m guessing that its spooking the installation.

This seems certainly odd as I have installed countless of software on that HDD, it has everything from Blender to an Adobe suit; no complaints so far.
I cannot accept a «just install it on C» as that is simply not an option. This kind of installation behaviour is just a UX red flag and not just a single one but alot of them. How and why would you restrict a user to change the installation directory?

Move Oculus Rift Installation, Games and Apps to Another Drive

Oculus overview and its shortcoming

Oculus VR, acquired by Facebook in 2014, is an American technology company specializing in virtual reality. In 2012, Oculus released the Rift, the very first virtual reality headset designed for video gaming. However, the Rift has some shortcomings. One of them is storage space problem. By default, the Oculus software is set to install on the system drive, which is typically the C: drive. What’s worse, the Oculus Rift apps and games can’t be downloaded and saved to different drive but directly go to the drive where the Oculus software is installed.

Nowadays, most users have replaced their HDD with a faster SSD by migrating OS for better performance. But a SSD is usually smaller, and it will be easily running out of space after installing several Oculus games. Then, is there any way to move Oculus to another drive?

How to move Oculus to another drive?

Fortunately, the latest update allows users to install Oculus to another drive so that Rift owners are able to download more games and apps without having to worry about C: drive full. However, if you have already installed Oculus, the steps to uninstall and reinstall the updated Oculus are more complicated than a fresh Oculus installation. But there are two solutions to move Oculus to another drive without reinstalling Oculus software. Let’s have a look.

Solution 1: Move Oculus to another drive with Mklink

Step 1: Press «Ctrl + Alt + Del» to open Task Manager. Then locate «OVRService» and stop it.

Step 2: Open the drive (here is D:) where you would like to move Oculus games and applications. The drive must be formatted with NTFS and not be a network drive.

Step 5: Delete the old «Software» and «Downloads» folders.

Step 6: Open «Command Prompt (Admin)». Type the following commands and press «Enter»:

The commands you type might be different to this example, depending on what you name the folder and which drive you move to. You should receive a message like «Junction created for. «

Step 7: Start «OVRService» in Task Manager.

Then the next time when you download and install games or apps, they will be saved to D: drive. This command only allows you to move Oculus games and apps to another drive, if you want to move entire Oculus installation together with games and apps inside it to another drive, vrBackupper is the best choice.

Solution 2: Move Oculus to another drive with Free vrBackupper

vrBackupper is a free tool especially designed to move Oculus installation directory to another drive, and backup Oculus installation directory or only games and apps inside it so that you can restore the backup after reinstalling Oculus. With its help, moving Oculus has never been so easy.

Step 1: Download, install and launch vrBackupper. It will automatically detect your Oculus installation directory if installed as shown below. You just need to choose another drive or a folder where you would like to move Oculus by clicking the «вЂ¦» button.

Step 2: Click «Start Move». Here takes moving Oculus from C drive to D drive for example.

Step 3: After Oculus move is completed, please click «OK» to exit. The program will automatically delete original installation directory (Source Location). If Oculus could not be started from the new drive, please restart your computer and try again.

You can also move Oculus to another drive by backup and restore Oculus which also allows you to move Oculus to another computer.

The Workaround: If there are other drives which have enough space on the system disk, you also can use AOMEI Partition Assistant to move free space to solve C: drive running out of space, instead of moving Oculus to another drive.

Tip: vrBackupper only supports Windows 64 bit. If you want to move Oculus games in other systems, please upgrade to Oculus Game Mover.

Как установить Oculus на другой диск?

Как изменить место установки Oculus?

Установите приложение Oculus. Перейдите в настройки> Общие> Расположение библиотек> изменить. Затем вы добавляете диск, на котором хотите размещать все свои приложения и игры. Обязательно выберите этот диск по умолчанию.

Требуется ли Oculus на диске C?

Для установки приложения Oculus требуется примерно 10 ГБ на жестком диске. Убедитесь, что на диске C: достаточно места. Чтобы загрузить и установить приложение Oculus на свой компьютер: перейдите на сайт www.oculus.com/setup, найдите приложение продукта, которое хотите установить, и нажмите «Загрузить программное обеспечение».

Как установить на другой диск?

Как установить приложения из Магазина Windows на отдельный диск

Как перейти с диска Oculus C на диск D?

Как переместить Oculus на другой диск?

Где устанавливаются игры Oculus?

Если вы оставили приложение Oculus для установки в папку по умолчанию, вашу старую папку библиотеки можно найти в C: Program Files Oculus Software. Если вы изменили место установки приложения Oculus, ваша старая папка библиотеки будет найдена в выбранном вами месте.

Сколько времени нужно, чтобы загрузить программное обеспечение Oculus?

Во время этого процесса вам может потребоваться предпринять шаги вне программного обеспечения Oculus, например обновить драйвер видеокарты (GPU). Процесс установки займет около 2 ЧАСОВ даже при быстром подключении к Интернету. Мы НЕ рекомендуем загружать программное обеспечение по беспроводной сети, потому что это может занять 8-10 часов.

Как связать Oculus с ПК?

Сколько ГБ в приложении Oculus?

Чтобы настроить Oculus Rift S или Rift, вам необходимо загрузить приложение Oculus на свой компьютер. Перед установкой приложения Oculus убедитесь, что на вашем жестком диске не менее 4 ГБ свободного места. Когда вы устанавливаете приложение Oculus на свой компьютер, оно будет установлено на диск C :.

Будет ли Oculus Quest 2?

Сегодня мы рады анонсировать Oculus Quest 2, новое поколение универсальной виртуальной реальности. Quest 2 продвигает вперед состояние виртуальной реальности благодаря обновленному форм-фактору «все в одном», новым сенсорным контроллерам и нашему дисплею с самым высоким разрешением. Квест 2 начинается с 299 долларов — на 100 долларов меньше, чем в оригинальном квесте.

Можно ли устанавливать программы на диск D?

Первоначально ответили: Можно ли устанавливать программы на диск D? Да, вы даже можете установить их и запускать на USB-накопителе или иметь аварийную операционную систему на USB-накопителе.

Могу ли я установить игры на диск D?

ДА, ИГРЫ МОЖНО УСТАНОВИТЬ НА ДИСК D. Если у вас достаточно свободного места на диске D, вы можете устанавливать игры.

Следует ли устанавливать программы на диск C?

Обычно преимущество установки программ на другой диск, удаленный от операционной системы, заключается в том, что вы защищаете ОС от заполнения и нехватки места. Если вы добавляете приложения на диск c, они могут создавать файлы данных, получать обновления и т. Д., Которые со временем постепенно разъедают это пространство.

Как очистить место на диске C?

Использовать очистку диска