Config questions......

[jpk]

I'm going to have to reinstall XP on my machine and I have a question. Should I install the OS on a seperate HD from the rest of my programs? I have a smaller, 30gb drive that I can install it on and keep my larger HD for the programs. Currently I have everything on the same drive. Any opinions as to any advantage? Thanks.

 

[Gautama2]

Advantage is that if one drive fails you either dont have to reinstall windows xp or you have all your files.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Gautama2
Advantage is that if one drive fails you either dont have to reinstall windows xp or you have all your files.

I have a smaller, 30gb drive that I can install it on and keep my larger HD for the programs.

Pretty sure that drive is at least 2+ yrs old use it for a fresh OS install then.. with the price of harddrives in a downward trend ..I'd grab a fairly new pata/sata one from either Seagate, Hitachi, WD or Samsung for a Ghost operation ..keeping the 30 as a backup dropin OS drive ..

 

[jpk]

So what are you saying? Just get a new SATA drive reinstall everything on that drive then use the 30gb as a back up? Why? The HD I currently have is sufficient for my needs. Don't really need a larger or faster drive. I just wanted to know if segregating the OS from the rest of the programs is a benificial thing by using two drives.

 

[littlebitstrouds]

I tried that once... I didn't see any difference in speed and I thought it was annoying explaining to programs everytime I installed them to install on the other drive. I doubt you have enough programs to install to fill your 30gb drive so I would advise just using that for all your programs. Use the backup for your Music, Pictures, Videos, and other files I would say.

 

[Seekermeister]

I don't think that it matters whether two harddrives are used, but it is a good idea to have the OS on a separate partition from any important documents or files that you wouldn't want to lose in a reformat. Unless a particular program does not require installation to work, it might as well be installed on the same partition as the OS, because it would have to be reinstalled anyway, after formatting.