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Adam
December 11th 03, 10:31 AM
Hello everone
I have a 80 gb hard disk with 3 partitions. Everything is on my c drive. I
am going to move my data onto the D drive.
1.How do I move my favourites, and Outlook express data and settings etc
onto the D drive and
2.What do I do to make sure that in future they go there automatically.
Also,
3. Is there any advantage to moving my programs, (office xp, Norton, Nero,
etc) onto a seperate drive.
4. Are there any types of programs that generally have to be on the same
drive as the OS
Thank
@dam
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Jim Macklin
December 11th 03, 10:31 AM
Download TweakUI for XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
TweakUi will make it easy to move the special Windows
folders to another drive.
I'd move MY DOCUMENTS to D: and then in Outlook
Express/Tools/Option/maintenance you can also move the
"store" folder the My Documents folder.
I don't think there is a great deal of benefit to having
system files and application files on a different drive. If
your system crashes you'll probably have to reinstall the OS
and the applications. Just be sure that you save your data
and downloads on a separate partition. If you have the
space, you could mirror the C: drive on E: as a back-up.
But a second hard drive would be better.
"Adam" <removespurs1chelsea6athotmaildotcom> wrote in
message ...
| Hello everone
|
| I have a 80 gb hard disk with 3 partitions. Everything is
on my c drive. I
| am going to move my data onto the D drive.
| 1.How do I move my favourites, and Outlook express data
and settings etc
| onto the D drive and
| 2.What do I do to make sure that in future they go there
automatically.
|
| Also,
| 3. Is there any advantage to moving my programs, (office
xp, Norton, Nero,
| etc) onto a seperate drive.
| 4. Are there any types of programs that generally have to
be on the same
| drive as the OS
|
|
| Thank
|
| @dam
|
| Copied (not crossposted) to
| XP general, Help and support, new users,
|
|
Bruce Chambers
December 11th 03, 10:32 AM
Greetings --
Planning Your Partitions
http://www.aumha.org/a/parts.htm
Bruce Chambers
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"Adam" <removespurs1chelsea6athotmaildotcom> wrote in message
...
> Hello everone
>
> I have a 80 gb hard disk with 3 partitions. Everything is on my c
drive. I
> am going to move my data onto the D drive.
> 1.How do I move my favourites, and Outlook express data and
settings etc
> onto the D drive and
> 2.What do I do to make sure that in future they go there
automatically.
>
> Also,
> 3. Is there any advantage to moving my programs, (office xp, Norton,
Nero,
> etc) onto a seperate drive.
> 4. Are there any types of programs that generally have to be on the
same
> drive as the OS
>
>
> Thank
>
> @dam
>
> Copied (not crossposted) to
> XP general, Help and support, new users,
>
>
Adam
December 11th 03, 10:33 AM
Thanks for your help everyone.
Really appreciate it.
All the best
@dam
"Bruce Chambers" > wrote in message
...
> Greetings --
>
> Planning Your Partitions
> http://www.aumha.org/a/parts.htm
>
> Bruce Chambers
>
> --
> Help us help you:
> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
> having both at once. -- RAH
>
>
> "Adam" <removespurs1chelsea6athotmaildotcom> wrote in message
> ...
> > Hello everone
> >
> > I have a 80 gb hard disk with 3 partitions. Everything is on my c
> drive. I
> > am going to move my data onto the D drive.
> > 1.How do I move my favourites, and Outlook express data and
> settings etc
> > onto the D drive and
> > 2.What do I do to make sure that in future they go there
> automatically.
> >
> > Also,
> > 3. Is there any advantage to moving my programs, (office xp, Norton,
> Nero,
> > etc) onto a seperate drive.
> > 4. Are there any types of programs that generally have to be on the
> same
> > drive as the OS
> >
> >
> > Thank
> >
> > @dam
> >
> > Copied (not crossposted) to
> > XP general, Help and support, new users,
> >
> >
>
>
Ian Smythe
December 11th 03, 10:34 AM
Adam wrote:
> Hello everone
>
> I have a 80 gb hard disk with 3 partitions. Everything is on my c drive. I
> am going to move my data onto the D drive.
> 1.How do I move my favourites, and Outlook express data and settings etc
> onto the D drive and
> 2.What do I do to make sure that in future they go there automatically.
>
> Also,
> 3. Is there any advantage to moving my programs, (office xp, Norton, Nero,
> etc) onto a seperate drive.
> 4. Are there any types of programs that generally have to be on the same
> drive as the OS
>
>
> Thank
>
> @dam
>
> Copied (not crossposted) to
> XP general, Help and support, new users,
>
> You need this program, Application Mover. Get it from download.com and it
will move your programs for you, AND, more important, it will reset
the path automatically. No headaches, easy to use. :-)
@dam
December 11th 03, 10:34 AM
"Ian Smythe" > wrote in message
om...
> Adam wrote:
>
> > Hello everone
> >
> > I have a 80 gb hard disk with 3 partitions. Everything is on my c drive.
I
> > am going to move my data onto the D drive.
> > 1.How do I move my favourites, and Outlook express data and settings
etc
> > onto the D drive and
> > 2.What do I do to make sure that in future they go there automatically.
> >
> > Also,
> > 3. Is there any advantage to moving my programs, (office xp, Norton,
Nero,
> > etc) onto a seperate drive.
> > 4. Are there any types of programs that generally have to be on the same
> > drive as the OS
> >
> >
> > Thank
> >
> > @dam
> >
> > Copied (not crossposted) to
> > XP general, Help and support, new users,
> >
> > You need this program, Application Mover. Get it from download.com and
it
> will move your programs for you, AND, more important, it will reset
> the path automatically. No headaches, easy to use. :-)
Thanks Ian
@dam
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