partition drive from OS

[airdebster]

I have partitioned one hard drive into 3 partitions. One
for my OS another for Office and another for misc. I have
a second hard drive that I plan on using as a backup of
drive 0, but haven't gotten that far yet. My problem is
some programs insist on being on drive C. When i put them
on another partition they don't seem to work well, slow
don't load fully etc. Can someone explain the mirror
effect XP does on the same hard drive with programs? Is
this my problem? Caching, backups, system restore? Any
info. would help greatly. I only do this to protect my
data from failures of my C drive and keep things in
control.

 

[Colin Painter]

It is certainly possible for programmers to create applications that
"insist" on being on drive C and this has nothing to do with XP. These would
be bad programs to have around but if there is an app that you can't live
without that insists on being on C then there is not much you can do about
it. So long as you keep the distribution media for your programs then you
can always in theory rebuild your C drive should that be required for some
reason. Having another physical drive around to use as a backup device is a
sound plan. I do just that. I run full backups occasionally of all of C and
then incrementals daily of "user" files which includes the "Documents and
Settings" folder and some other specific things. If I lost my C drive for
some reason I would rebuild it from scratch from the distributions and then
add back the user files later. This would be painful but considering the
likelyhood of it being required it's a reasonable approach.

Can you restate the question about "mirror effect"?

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