could reformatting cause a problem?

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I bought a big hard drive last year, so that I could partition it in order to have OS and Applications on one drive, games on another etc. Every year or so, I usually reformat my main drive, and reinstall just the things I use, in order to speed the system up. I put my games into a separate partition, to save having to reinstall these.

My question is: Will my games still work properly? I know that any registry changes that are made by a game on install will be lost, and I don't know whether this will affect operation

After this reinstall, I plan on copying an image of my system drive to dvd instead ;-)
 
Hi

If you reformat a primary drive/partition and you have programs installed onto another partition you will then have to reinstall those programs as all references in the Registry will have been erased. If they are installed on a different partition, values are entered into the Registry.

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| I bought a big hard drive last year, so that I could partition it in order to have OS and Applications on one drive, games on another etc. Every year or so, I usually reformat my main drive, and reinstall just the things I use, in order to speed the system up. I put my games into a separate partition, to save having to reinstall these.
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| My question is: Will my games still work properly? I know that any registry changes that are made by a game on install will be lost, and I don't know whether this will affect operation.
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| After this reinstall, I plan on copying an image of my system drive to dvd instead ;-)
 
Greetings --

Placing data files on a partition separate from the operating
system and applications can greatly simplify system repairs/recoveries
and data back-up. For better guidance than I can easily provide:

There's little point, however, in having a separate partition for
just applications and/or games. Should you have to reinstall the OS,
you'll also
have to reinstall each and every application and game anyway, in order
to
recreate the hundreds (possibly thousands) of registry entries and to
replace the dozens (possibly hundreds) of essential system files back
into the appropriate Windows folders and sub-folders.


Bruce Chambers

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