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Resolved Drive Partioning

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by kiaville, 2009/11/09.

  1. 2009/11/09
    kiaville

    kiaville Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Hi! I use two partitions, C & D, on my hard drive. C is a little bigger then D. I put my installed programs on the D partition and of course parts of the program installations go on the C partition. My question is would I be better off increasing my C size and putting everything on it and just using D for my pictures, documents, etc.? Thanks.
     
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    Hill

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    Yeah, that's what I do.
    Operating system and programs on C and all user created data on D.
    It makes reinstalling the OS a breeze.

    Good Luck
     
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    PeteC

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    That is the way to go :)

    With the OS on C:\ and Programs on D:\ in the event of a reformat of C:\ all programs will need to be reinstalled so nothing is gained. Also note that not all programs give the option to install anywhere but C:\.

    Additionally I reccommend imaging your OS drive and maintaining a current image so that in the event of a disaster the image can be reloaded either to the existing drive or to a new drive in a matter of minutes - 30 or so.
     
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    kiaville

    kiaville Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Thanks for the input.
     
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  6. 2009/11/11
    PeteC

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    I've marked this thread as 'Resolved', please see .....
     
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