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Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition?

From "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au>
Newsgroups comp.sys.laptops
Subject Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition?
Date 2011-08-16 12:16 +1200
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Somewhere on teh intarwebs Roger Mills wrote:
> On 15/08/2011 22:24, ghelf wrote:
>> Many people agree that keeping your data files on a partition other
>> than C: is a wise move.
>> I was thinking keeping program files on separate partition would also
>> have benefits but the feedback I get is that software applications
>> want & expect to be placed in the same partition as the OS.
>> Some Windows 7 people have said they were able to do this.
>> Anybody got ideas on this?
>
> 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.
> Bear in mind though that all the Registry entries for the application
> will still be on the C:\ drive - as will things like .ini files and
> other configuration information - so backing up your E: drive doesn't
> necessarily make it any easier to get up and running again if your
> hard disk fails.

Exactly. Which is why I stopped having three partitions as the norm on my 
machines last year and now have reverted to two. A single partition for OS 
*and* programmes and a (larger) partition for data. I point Window's '[My] 
Documents' to a documents folder on the data partition and I also store 
Acronis images of the boot partition on the data partition (and restore them 
from there fine).

Of course I also copy the Acronis images (and data) to an external drive (or 
two) for redundancy. After all, they may be two seperate partitions but 
they're both on one physical disc and subject to the same potential failure.
-- 
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a 
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)

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Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 14:24 -0700
  Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2011-08-15 22:55 +0100
    Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2011-08-16 12:16 +1200
      Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 20:35 -0700
    Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 20:47 -0700
      Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 19:40 +0100
        Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 13:49 -0500
        Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 16:22 -0300
          Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 15:33 -0500
            Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "RnR" <rnrtexas@gmail.com> - 2011-08-21 06:57 -0500
  Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <2579843445nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-15 16:21 -0700
    Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 20:11 -0700
      Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <1245nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-15 23:21 -0700
        Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-16 13:39 -0700
          Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 16:30 -0500
            Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 16:35 -0500
            Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 22:55 +0100
              Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-18 06:40 -0500
            Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-18 19:17 -0700
              Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-19 18:05 -0500
          Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <1245nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-16 16:47 -0700
            Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-18 06:04 -0500
              Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <2579843445nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-18 17:23 -0700
                Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-19 18:34 -0500
                Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <2579843445nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-19 21:26 -0700
                Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-20 11:03 -0500
  Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-08-16 02:04 +0000

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