Re: win xp
- From: Rock <rock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:07:37 -0800
Sammy Castagna wrote:
Can Windows be installed on say C drive and all the program fills on a different hard disk say F?
So if windows had to be reinstalled or crashed all the information would be on a different hard drive. Forgive if this is a silly question.
Yes it will work fine installing apps on another partition, however there isn't a significant advantage to this. If XP needs to be reinstalled, a repair install will keep the installed programs, however a clean install of XP will still require programs to be reinstalled. Most all programs, except for the simplest, write to the XP registry and a clean install recreates a new registry without these entries necessitating a reinstall of the apps.
Put data on a separate partition and install apps on the same partition as the OS.
You could also look into a drive imaging program to save an image of the drives on an external USB hard drive, then in the event of a crash all partitions can be restored as they were previously, saving a reinstall of XP.
Some of the programs that do this are Norton Ghost, Acronis True Image, and Terabyte Unlimited's Image for Windows.
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Rock
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