Resolved Programs on 2nd Partition with XP

Hello.I was wondering if when you have one drive ,a 60GB drive,which is divided as 1-10 GB drive primary partition and the remaining 47 GB logical partition ,can I install programs on the 47 GB logical partition of the same drive ,the primary partition has XP2 on it.Will the programs operate from the 47GB logical partition? Thanks.:

 

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thanks for your help again.i will install my programs on the 47 GB partition of the 60 GB drive.

 

In my opinion, there is little to be gained in installing programs on a different partition from the OS, because most will in any case write to the registry, many add files to system folders and to \application folders in Documents and settings folders. So if you have to reinstall the OS, you will in nearly all cases also have to reinstall the programs.
Using a second partition (or better, a second hard drive) to store your data files does make sense.

 

JRosenfeld,

I think chrism4074 is going this way as he does not have enough space to install programs on his primary partition [its 10 GB].

 

Yes, I understand that. I think however he would be better off using the 47GB partition as his system/programs partition and the 10 GB partition for data. Just my opinion

 

Or he could easily image his c: drive to d drive when he's happy with his set-up
Acronis for example.
This would save any hassle incase of Re-install.

Regards
Peter