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i have two hard drives running xp home, fat32 and dont want to install programs on each one every time, can i make programs accessable to either hard drive with one installation
 
I'm sorry I don't have the answer, but only a question...Why are you using
"FAT32" with XP?
Willie

jenny said:
i have two hard drives running xp home, fat32 and dont want to install
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programs on each one every time, can i make programs accessable to either
hard drive with one installation
 
i have two hard drives running xp home, fat32 and dont want to install programs on each one every time, can i make programs accessable to either hard drive with one installation
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I think there is some confusion here. First of all,if you are running
two HD's in one system under xp then it would be ideal if they were
both NTFS and not FAT.

The other issue is that if installed software is fully xp compatible
then it should be available to all user accounts on the pc as it will
have been installed by one who has an administrative account.

I wonder what size your two HD's are? if they are smallish ,perhaps
you could consider just having one large drive. For instance,in my
current system i have a single 40GiG HD formatted to NTFS (of course)
which is plenty adequate and still has over 35 gig free space despite
having 3 user accounts on this machine

joe
 
jenny said:
i have two hard drives running xp home, fat32 and dont want to
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install programs on each one every time, can i make programs
accessable to either hard drive with one installation

You can do this but you still have to install the programs under each
OS. Let's say, for example that each hard drive is one partition - C
& D. If you create another partition on either drive, "E" for
example, you can install your applications to that partition. During
the install of each application you can browse to another location for
the install rather than accept the default location which is always
"C". As I mentioned, you have to install the apps separately under
each OS but they both would then access the same location for the
program files. This method is useful particularly if disk space is a
problem since your apps would not take up twice the space they would
if you had to install them separately.
 
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