Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Roger Mills Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:40:10 +0100 Organization: Association of Revolting Peasants Lines: 26 Message-ID: <9avrqdF8o7U1@mid.individual.net> References: <57GdnftNcJwRE9TTnZ2dnUVZ5jmdnZ2d@giganews.com> <9atitkF2shU1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net kh8pUPhSAkK6B5s1XcwHZwMv4jdqUWILHZEAhgT3K7PfM6YEbD Cancel-Lock: sha1:0h+GAzeZp90BpfG7XnBZkDSmGEY= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.laptops:561 On 16/08/2011 04:47, ghelf wrote: > >> No problem whatsoever. I've done it with Windows 95/98, XP and 7. >> >> Most decent applications - certainly if you do a custom install rather >> than accepting all the defaults - allow you to specify where to >> install them. So you partition your disk and create (say) an E: drive >> and then create a 'Program Files' folder on that drive. Then, when you >> install an application, you specify the location as E:\Program Files. >> > Just curious why did you decide to keep the programs on a separate > partition? It seemed like a good idea at the time - to separate the data from the programs from the OS. It meant that the programs could be backed up 'live' by copying to an external device - reducing the amount of the stuff on the system drive to be backed up as a Ghost image with the system shut down. But, as per my previous post, you still end up with a lot of application-related stuff on the system drive, so the advantages are not all that great. -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked.