Re: several logical partitions or several mounted logical partitio
- From: "2dogs" <2dogs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 05:01:03 -0700
Please see parsed comments below.
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2dogs in Oregon USA
"Uncle John" wrote:
> 2dogs
>
> The reason you are not finding posts about your idea in Windows XP news
> groups is because you are mixing up with Linux ideas.
What I am talking about has nothing to do with linux. I am talking about
Windows XP NTFS mounted logical drives on a basic drive (not a dynamic
volumn). These are created in the MMC using the Disk Management snap in. Have
you never heard of this?
> In Windows the path to an application is set in the Registry when you
> install it. If you install Office into a separate partition, which has its
> own unique drive letter, it will be found when Office is opened from the
> Start Menu or a shortcut. No need for any partition mounting paraphernalia!
In Windows the default path for an app install is tet to the C:\Program
Files folder. If it is to be installed elsewhere you must specify the
partition at the time the app is installed. This leaves the possibility of
someone installing an application to the C: drive Program Files folder if
they don't remember to change the drive letter to the partition where you
want programs installed at the time of install. Also, some programs won't run
if they are installed to any partition other than the C: because they make
absolute reference to the C: drive in the program itself (yes, some
developers are that dumb). The Default location of the Program Files folder
can be permanently changed by setting the Registry Variable "PrograFilesDir"
to a new location but then these programs still wont work. Mounting allows
you to install these programs anywhere and they will still work. This is
because, when you mount a partition as C:\Program Files it becomes the
C:\Program Files folder even though it is on a separate protected partition.
No registry variables are changed and all programs installed will
automatically install to this new location. It is totally transparent to the
user.
> Temp is a folder on any drive it is not a special folder that has to be
> changed in the system registry. Each user has a temp folder, the default is
> a subfolder of %system%windows. If you create a Temp folder anywhere else
> you have to change the path to it in environmental settings for each user or
> if for all users the same folder then in the system environment.
>
I never said anything about setting registry variables for the temp folders.
I said, "I think the Windows Temp folders are moved to a different partition
by
setting the system environmental variables to the new path. Please correct me
if I am wrong."
> I don't understand what you are attempting to achieve it looks weird it will
> make intelligent backing up difficult: if your objective was defined I could
> perhaps be more helpful.
What I am trying to do is exactly as described. Create 4 partitions on my
hard disk, one is a primary partition for the OS, another logical partition
for documents, another for Programs, and another for temp files. This is a
very common and highly recommend partitioning scheme That improves the
ability to do "intelligent backup", increases system stability, and in many
case improves performance.
Mounted drives are very common on networked windows systems running both
Windows XP and Windows Server.
> --
> Uncle John
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> Clipped
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