Re: OT: using two hard drives with Windows
- From: Mean_Chlorine <mike_noren2002@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 13:21:05 +0200
Thusly "Digital Puer" <digital_puer@xxxxxxxxxxx> Spake Unto All:
>But where should I keep installed applications and games,
>on the data disk or the OS disk? When any application is
>installed, it keeps extra data in the registry and the
>"Applications and Settings" folder, so I guess apps should
>be kept on the OS disk, right?
It doesn't matter, pretty much all applications store the installation
path in the registry. You will find that some patches etc make
assumptions that the application is on drive C:, as does some poorly
written installation hardware, but it's not a big problem.
However, IMO it's still easiest to keep apps and data apart - that
makes backing up the data easier. So me I put the apps on C: and the
data on D: (and E:).
Make backups of important data regularly. Seriously. Drives do die.
Not kidding. Been there, done that.
.
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