While many people believe in installing their application programs to a
drive different than the OS drive, it won't do them any good if the OS hard
drive crashes or the OS has to be replaced. The reason, XP and almost all
other OSs write information to different files in the OS itself.

When the OS is replaced on your C drive these files do not get automatically
reinstalled and therefore the programs on your H drive won't work. You
would still have to reinstall the applications that are currently on the H
drive.

A better way to ensure that your programs would work after a OS crash is to
image the OS drive, with all programs installed on the OS hard drive, to the
H drive (a physically different drive than the C). That way if the OS drive
dies, simply image the replacement drive from the H drive and you are back
in service.


"ritter197" <ritter197@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:v3oof.77909$7r6.65597@trnddc07...
> Why nightmare?
> C drive "should" only be the OS
> D is a CD read drive
> E is a CD/Read Write drive
> F is for Video
> G is External drive
> H is Applications
>
> Seems very orderly to me.
>
> "Noozer" <dont.spam@me.here> wrote in message
> newssnof.118568$Gd6.70134@pd7tw3no...
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>> "ritter197" <ritter197@verizon.net> wrote in message
>> news:zJmof.727$kd1.202@trnddc02...
>>>I use Windows XP Pro and have the following disks or partions:
>>> Cdrive
>>> D drive
>>> E drive
>>> F drive
>>> G drive and
>>> H drive
>>>
>>> plus 2 Thumb drives.
>>>
>>> I read in the Langa list that the C drive should be used by about 2
>>> GBts, mine has almost 16 GB on it, even though I install all the time
>>> with Custom install programs onto the H drive.
>>>
>>> So I wonder how I can find out what to delete on the C drive
>>
>> Sounds like a nightmare to me? Any reason that you do this?
>>
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