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

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On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:33:28 -0500, "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:

>In news:4e4ac344$0$8224$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net,
>Tazz wrote:
>> On 16/08/2011 3:40 PM, Roger Mills wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> I install all of my games on a separate partition from the OS. It
>> keeps the system drive a lot smaller, some of the games are > 7GB.
>> The best part is if you reformat and reinstall Windows the newer
>> games will 'know' it's already up to date and you won't have to
>> re-download the game updates. The installer will just install the
>> stuff that's missing back to the system drive.
>
>My X-Plane v9 is 60GB in size. I used to care years ago which partition 
>it was installed on. But not anymore. Years ago there were so many 
>barriers that we had to create partitions for. Going from memory, I 
>think they went like this: 32MB, 512MB, 2GB, 32GB, 128GB, and now 2TB 
>barrier. And nowadays, there are very few barriers to force us to 
>partition.
>
>And the one thing I always hated about partitions is I was always 
>adjusting their sizes. Some people told me they never had to do that, 
>but I did. Maybe I keep computers longer than most, I dunno.
>
>Lots of people like partitions because they can backup one partition at 
>a time. Sounds nice on the surface and all. But restoring one partition 
>from one period of time with another can cause lots of weird problems. 
>So it is better to backup everything in one shot and the problems 
>disappear. But to make the problems disappear all at once... well it is 
>better to store everything in Drive C in this case. So what's the point?
>
>It is true, there are installs, music, movies, etc. that I don't store 
>on Drive C. Most of these are rarely used and I store them on external 
>hard drives. But that is about as far as it goes nowadays. But these are 
>not partitions, but separate independent drives.
>
>It is funny how I have evolved over the decades. First, I only backed up 
>data and nothing else. As I had the OS install disks and the 
>applications if I had to reinstall them once again.
>
>And when storage got cheaper, I achieved whole partitions. Although 
>mixing one partition with another from another date became a problem.
>
>Later I backed up everything in one shot. This solved the mismatch in 
>partition dates. It got better when I moved everything to drive C.
>
>I gave up on backing up. Since to make sure they work, you have to 
>backup and then restore. Sometimes they didn't work. That is bad! So 
>nowadays I just clone the whole Drive C without partitions. That happens 
>in one shot and none of this backing up and restoring. And I run the 
>cloned copy of the drive to make sure everything works perfectly. The 
>original is now my backup and we know that one works perfectly.
>
>And I have five hard drives that I rotate. And if one of them fails, no 
>big deal as I have four other copies ready to go. And not only if a hard 
>drive ever fails, I have backup laptops too. Like I have six of these 
>Gateway M465. As one of these fails for whatever reason, no big deal. 
>Two screws and pull the hard drive and stick it in another one and it 
>works just fine.
>
>I don't know, this seems to be the best of the best so far. ;-)


I still like the idea of separate partitions but I agree it's not
quite that simple.   Even when I tried to be diligent about it, some
programs still write to the C drive... other times I just forgot.   So
I guess what I'm saying is I like the idea in theory but in practice,
doesn't always work as planned.

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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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