ASUS Armoury Crate fresh installation is failed

[Gennady21]

After an unsuccessful attempt to run FanXpert, I decided to reinstall Armory Crate completely. This was not possible. I can provide logs, but the log file is 2,723,022,752 bytes. What should I do?

[Nate152]

Hello Genaddy21

Run the Armoury Crate uninstall tool, then install Armoury Crate version 3.2.11.2 (first download).

In the link, click "Show all" in blue, the uninstall tool is the third download. - Armoury Crate - Support (asus.com)

[Gennady21]

The problem is that this utility is also crooked and exits with an error without finishing the process. It offers to reboot the computer and continue, but after rebooting the story repeats itself.

[Nate152]

Ok, so the uninstall tool is failing too, I'm not sure why this is happening.

Something easy to try is a system restore, to a point before Armoury Crate was installed.

[Gennady21]

I apologize, but my system is fine. I assure you. I have written several times on the forum that there is a bug in Armory Crate products. The developers completely ignore the writing standards for Windows, as a result, we go to the system registry and see <HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASUS\RLSinfo\Download\FrameworkServiceSetupSeparate\3_APP/>

<initpath = D:\ProgramData\ASUS\ROG Live Service\versioninfo.ini/>

However, this is not the case in my case. ProgramData is moved to a separate disk so as not to reduce the SSD resource. The correct one in my case would be <E:\ProgramData\ASUS\ROG Live Service\versioninfo.ini/> To prevent this from happening, Windows provides a system API that returns the required directory. Therefore, these utilities do not work correctly if there is more than one Windows instance in the system

[Nate152]

I suspect "ProgramData being moved to a separate disk as not to reduce the SSD resource" could be the issue. It shouldn't have to move data to another disk unless the disk is out of space?

What ssd's/ hdd's are you using and what size are they?

I'm using one Seagate Firecuda 530 1TB ssd and I'm having no issues.

[Gennady21]

It is my personal right to place ProgramData on any disk I want. MS does not prohibit it. 😎
My configuration:
SSD M2 Samsung 1Gb
and
4 HDD 1Tb assembled in a 2Tb raid

In this case, disk C (RAID part) is allocated for another OS. On disk D (SSD) is the operating system and its non-movable libraries. On disk E (RAID part) are Users Profile and ProgramData.
How did I do it? It's a long story. However, programs do not have problems with this, except for those that use hardcoded paths or use legacy API.

[Nate152]

Windows is giving you red bars for your drives because they're pretty much filled to capacity.

Maybe try running disk clean-up on your drives, see if this frees up enough space to let Armoury Crate install. If not, you may have to uninstall some programs to make room.

[Gennady21]

This has nothing to do with the problem. ‼️

As you can see, there is enough space on all disks for installation. I don't think that AC needs more than 26 GB of space.

BTW: It marks in red if there is less than 10% left on the disk.

The problem exists, and it is present. I solve it by installing temporary symlinks, after which the program is installed. Also by fixing the registry. But I should not do this. The correct path should be determined by the program automatically. This is my complaint about AC