"Dave Patrick" wrote:

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BTW there is no advantage to installing software to a partition
separate from the operating system.

There is if you are booting multiple operating systems, as this allows
you to have only one copy of the program files on the hard drive.

A few years ago I had three versions of Windows (XP, Me, and 98)
installed on a 17 gb hard drive. In order to conserve disk space I
had a separate partition for programs. It worked very well.

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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