Re: XP/Vista - installing apps on a common drive
- From: "Terry R." <F1Com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:04:56 -0700
The date and time was 9/3/2008 8:55 PM, and on a whim, Synapse Syndrome pounded out on the keyboard:
"Terry R." <F1Com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%236fDcFjDJHA.1228@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxOn my personal workstation, I have always used a separate drive
partition for data and a separate drive partition for apps, since I have
multiple OS's and to keep partition sizes small. I point each app from
each OS to the same location, so there is only one footprint of each
installed app. If an uninstall is needed (rarely if ever), I just copy
the app folder, uninstall it, then rename the copy back to the original
so all the other OS's have it available.
I was wondering whether anyone dual boots using XP/Vista and has a
separate drive they install apps to that is common to both OS's.
Have you never had any problems with what you are doing there? I can think of large applications, that I have, that have had service packs that have changed essential registry values, and would not be able to take the update again from another OS installation.
Also, legacy apps, that make writes to Program Files while being used, are not installed in Program Files, with Vista.
There are probably other complications that I cannot think of right now, but basically, why bother with all that hassle when HDD capacities continue to increase at an exponential rate?
Disregarding media files, just a single (or two for the extra security of RAID-1) 1TB disk will give the most hardcore multi-booting power user all the space he/she needs.
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I've never had an issue within the OS's. Any SP's will install on each OS and everything runs fine.
The writes to the Program Files folder sounds like it may prevent this. I'm not sure at this point which apps do and which don't.
Regardless of HD capacities, it's a waste IMO to install every app in one OS partition and then waste the same space in another. I agree hard drives are cheap, but if it doesn't affect an OS, it's easy to do.
On the workstation I'm putting together for someone, I have two 500 gig drives that I was going to configure w/R1. If I can save 100 gig on installing games to one drive, it would be worth it.
Thanks for the input, and any further comments would be welcomed.
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Terry R.
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