configuing hard drives in XP

[nebib]

I want add second hard disk as slave on primary IDE to
increase storage for data (not necessarily backup) and
still use C: as is. Can I designate the new drive as a
target to save data through configuration or will I need
to indicate that preference in each single instance?
Maybe a dumb question but seems dumb also to dump old
perfectly good drive and have to clen install XP and etc.
on new one.

 

[Rich Barry]

Sure, you can determine where XP installs programs.
. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
2. Find ProgramFilesDir whose default should be C:\Program Files
3. Change this to whatever directory you wish. I changed it to D:\Program
Files for example.

Remember you have to reboot for your changes to show.

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

nebib wrote on 21-Aug-2004 6:01 PM:

I want add second hard disk as slave on primary IDE to
increase storage for data (not necessarily backup) and
still use C: as is. Can I designate the new drive as a
target to save data through configuration or will I need
to indicate that preference in each single instance?
Maybe a dumb question but seems dumb also to dump old
perfectly good drive and have to clen install XP and etc.
on new one.

You could move your My Documents folder to the new hard drive to get
more space for your data. Right-click My Documents and move the Target.
That is the simplest way to get more room for your music and videos.