Re: Installing OS in seperate partition
From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 05/12/04
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Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 00:19:47 -0700
There's little or no advantage in terms of the system or how it runs. When
you say you thought this would make reloading the OS easier, I assume you
mean reinstalling after a format as it appears you are trying to avoid
having to reinstall the applications. That won't work. All applications
would need to be reinstalled in such a scenario as the OS after a format and
reinstall would not know where they are.
However, creating and using Images can save you a lot of time.
I have an image of my setup with a clean install of the OS, all drivers
loaded and most settings in place. I have a separate image of the OS with
most of my primary applications installed.
Sometimes, if I know I'm going to be doing something risky, I'll create an
image of my setup with all my data as well. The two best applications for
this are Drive Image from PowerQuest, www.powerquest.com (now owned by
Symantec) and Norton Ghost, also owned by Symantec, www.symantec.com.
You shouldn't use these in place of a backup, rather use your backup as a
supplement to the images which are essentially just the framework of your
system without your data files. Used together, in a system crash, you can
be up and running again in 30 to 45 minutes as opposed to the hours it would
take to first reinstall the OS and then all your applications.
Don't worry if you don't have all the applications installed in the image
because whatever comes later for which you may not have had time to create a
new applications image will take far less time to install than all the work
necessary without the use of images.
I create a specific partition where I store the images and it would also be
advisable to burn the image files to a DVD disk as they will likely be too
large for CD-R. That way, if your hard drive fails, you still have your
images which you can quickly restore after replacing your hard drive.
-- Michael Solomon MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Backup is a PC User's Best Friend DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/ "MP" <pokjob@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:i2hoc.75252$Ik.5409345@attbi_s53... > Hi > > I'm building a new PC with 1 physical HDD (200 GB). I plan on creating a > few > partitions on it... > > Question: > > Is there an advantage to installing WinXP PRO in its own partition (used > only for the OS)? Example -- create a 30GB partition which would only be > used for XP -- all other software and apps would be installed in a > different > partition. > > I thought this would make reloading the OS easier later on if I had to > since --theoretically -- the other partitions could remain untouched if I > had to reinstall Windows... > > Please advise if this is worth while... If so How big of a partition > should > be allocated for XP PRO? Thanks in advance. > > >
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