Re: Hard drive setup...

"Marcus Fox" <please-reply-via-newsgroup-th@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:R5OdnZn-UPWRS9PanZ2dnUVZ8uqdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
When installing for the first time is it possible to have partitions on one
drive set up as

C:\ - Windows System
D:\ - Optical Drive
E:\ - Applications, Microsoft Office, other programs, etc
F:\ - Documents

And then when the time comes for a re-install, I only need to re-install the
OS and not all of the programs - or is it not that simple?

No it is not that simple! But you can keep the application data on a separate drive.


Additionally I'd like to know if it is possible to move the current boot
partition to another drive and dual boot it with the newly installed OS
until things are set up the way I like and then delete it without a trace,
so the system no longer dual boots?

I use Bootitng from Terabyte to do this. I have two copies of Vista on my PC which I select from a menu when the PC starts.
Both appear as C: drive. The second copy was actually made by cloning the first copy, though the first time I used it I did have to show it the Vista DVD.
Both copies are registered (using the same licence key) and receive updates.


My data lives on another drive which I can always see. This does confuse the 'My documents' type facilities in Vista, partly because I did not install the directory structure before I cloned the C: drive.

--
Michael Chare

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