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Lost User

He wants to install them on a different drive. Maybe, because the C drive does not have too much free space. Thomas

Carlos Fonseca

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Eytukan

If it's their natural place, then why would other "sane" applications give us a chance to select the target location? And dont you find it rude if it starts to run the progress bar without asking anything for a courtesy? :| .Btw,Yup I'm running out of space on that drive. :sigh:.

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Vikram A Punathambekar

Why shouldn't the user choose? Back when I had my PC, I used to keep only the OS and a few other stuff (AV, .NET framework, etc) on my C drive. D was for another OS. E was for data (pics, documents, etc). F was for applications. G was for music, H for CD dumps, and I for games (not that I played any, but my brother used to). That was just the Windows partitions. I also had Linux. ;P

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Eytukan

:laugh::laugh:

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Rage

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

Isn't that their natural place.

You must be kidding. Never ever install anything in the windows directory, best way to loose everything if your setup crashes.

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Rama Krishna Vavilala

Rage wrote:

best way to loose everything if your setup crashes.

How do you recover stuff anyway without re-installing when windows crashes. I am all in favor of keeping data on a separate drive. But applications have to be re-installed anyways to function properly after Windows crash. Also most applications install some of their files in Program Files\Common Files and Windows\System32 directory. Even though you may be happy that you have installed an application on an another drive you still have these files on the system drive. My policy is simple, for applications that come with installer install them in the program files directory which is the default. Other downloaded applications like those in sysinternals suite, reflector etc. which can just be copied, put them in a separate drive. This way when I have to rebuild the apps, I don't loose the data as well as those applications. For apps like VS 2005 there is no way to make them run after an OS crash without re-installing. Also I set my profile directory (Documents ans settings\) to reside in the data directory. That way the data is safe to some extent during a system crash. In general I have found that not installing some application in Program Files directory lead to weird behaviors.

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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

Why shouldn't the user choose?

I am not saying that the user should not choose. I was asking why he wanted to change the drive.

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

not that I played any, but my brother used to

Don't worry! state the truth, no one will hold that against you.;)

Rama Krishna Vavilala

VuNic wrote:

Yup I'm running out of space on that drive. .

That's a nightmare. Once re-installed my OS just because I had the system partition set to 30 GB only and I was running out of space. These days I keep at least 40 GB for system drive: OS and "installable" applications.

Eytukan

hmm and you know IMHO, I feel it's a sin to install junks like Ymsgr in the System drive. Few unavoidable things like the windows-patches,hotfixes are going to making things on their own. We cannot question them unfortunately. but things like messengers should ask for the option. :sigh:.

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

These days I keep at least 40 GB for system drive: OS and "installable" applications

Once I had a separate HDD for the OS. Actually separating the OS from the application would certainly improve the situation, since the track & head jumps would be minimal. But one of the HDD wasn't healthy enough to cope up with. It started crashing. I removed it later.:sigh:

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Eytukan

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

I for games

This somehow reminds me of the sweet

C:\
C:\CD GAMES
C:\GAMES\CD PRINCE || CD DAVE
C:\GAMES\PRINCE\PRINCE.exe || Dave.exe

old DOS age.:-O :-O

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peterchen

No, it's great, but the "install experience" is... errr... ehm... what I have come to expect from Windows Installer.

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PIEBALDconsult

Indeed, I did so a couple months ago. The install definitely falls into the WTF category. Tech support was unsympathetic; pathetic perhaps, but not sympathetic.

Vikram A Punathambekar

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

Don't worry! state the truth, no one will hold that against you.

:laugh: Seriously, I've never enjoyed computer games except the AoE series. I don't find pumping bullets into people or driving cars over pedestrians appealing.

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