Questions about Win XP Pro install

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Hi,

For a few years now I have had Win XP Pro, I have always installed the
operating system on my # 1 hard drive and I save everything to my #2 hard
drive. The reason is whenever I do a re-install of my operating system all
my saved data on the second hard drive is still there and I don't have to
worry about losing my data unless the hard drive it's on goes bad.

Now I just bought a new 200 GB external hard drive and plan to keep my data
on that drive freeing up my #2 hard drive. Here is my question,

Could I install my operating system on hard drive#1 and then whenever I
install any programs install them on #2 hard drive. I know I can do this but
what I want to know is, if I had to re-install my operating system again on
#1 hard drive ,once installed would all my programs still be available on #2
hard drive ? I'm trying to figure out a way that I don't have to re-install
every program again when I do a re-install of my operating system.

Will this work???


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