Thank you, good advice.
I shall follow re backup to external drive via an image.
"LVTravel" <none@nothere.com> wrote in message
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> 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$7r6.65597@trnddc07...
>> Why nightmare?
>> C drive "should" only be the OS
>> D is a CD read drive
>> E is a CD/Read Write drive
>> F is for Video
>> G is External drive
>> H is Applications
>>
>> Seems very orderly to me.
>>
>> "Noozer" <dont.spam@me.here> wrote in message
>> news
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>>> "ritter197" <ritter197@verizon.net> wrote in message
>>> news:zJmof.727$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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