Re: New Win XP Installation

Dave wrote:
I'm currently running Win XP Home SP2 on one 120 gb hard drive with a second 120 gb hard drive used for backup images. It's been quite a while since I installed Win XP and I was thinking about doing a clean XP install and reinstalling all of my programs. I've read recommendations about installing Windows in it's own partition. I was wondering if the following would be a good configuration:

drive 1    C:    Window XP Home
               D:    Programs and data

drive 2     E:    Backup images

Does anyone have any input, ideas or recommendations?




There's really very little point in having a separate drive or partition for just applications. Should you ever have to reinstall the OS, you'll still have to reinstall each and every application and game anyway, in order to recreate the hundreds (possibly thousands) of registry entries and to replace the dozens (possibly hundreds) of essential system files back into the appropriate Windows folders and sub-folders. Placing applications on a separate drive/partition is a useful solution only if your system partition lacks sufficient space for all of your applications, and you cannot readily resize it.

However, placing data files on a partition or physical hard drive separate from the operating system and applications is a good idea. Doing so can greatly simplify system repairs/recoveries and data back-up.


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