Jacob Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 Happy New Year :) I have a fresh install of XP running, and a new free partition. Should I keep my D&S files on the seperate partition? I have read that there are benifits in keeping programs on a seperate drive, but I have also read that some programs may need to be kept on the same drive as the OS as they depend on it? When can you specify your D&S files to be put on a partition, is this done during the install or after? Is there a guide? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 My policy is to keep all programs on the "C" drive together with the operating system. Files and folders and all other presonal data I keep on a separate drive (note: not a partition of the same physical drive as the "C" drive) I also always keep a full backup of my complete system on a separate drive - and I keep it up-to-date. There is little or no point in keeping any backup data on the same drive as the operating system because if the drive fails - which they do - then there may be nothing left to retrieve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Some programs (e.g. Adobe Reader) refuse to install if D&S is on a different drive than the OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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