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Hyper <jimb@snip.net> wrote in message news:37BBE275.9D5C10E8@snip.net...
> Rod Speed wrote:
>> Hyper <jimb@snip.net> wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote:

>>>>>> it makes it easier to trouble shoot, reformatting
>>>>>> and installing windows becomes easier,

>>>>> I'm not convinced. With the apps on the second
>>>>> partition, you'll have to uninstall them and reinstall
>>>>> them again if you reformat the C drive and reinstall Win.

>>>>> A reinstall-over is all that is usually necessary
>>>>> when Windows is fully refreshed...

>>>> Nope, a clean reinstall on a freshly formatted partition often
>>>> produces a much cleaner and more stable install. Specially if
>>>> there has been much installing and uninstalling of apps to try them.

>>> he's saying that after you reinstall windows clean, you
>>> reinstall the apps over them selves to refresh the registry

>> Most people do a clean install of windows by formatting
>> the partition. So there aint no registry to 'refresh'.

>> Even if you just delete the \Windows tree, the registry is still gone.

>> Most app installs use the registry to decide if its already installed.

>>> and any dll's that might need to be in windows\system,
>>> not installing windows over itself

>> Dunno, 'reinstall-over' appears to be saying that. Only he can
>> say for sure but your interpretation has some logical holes in it.

> um, no it doesn't.

um, fraid so, particularly on that 'fully refreshed'

> you format your c; drive (you have more than one partition, remember?),
> leaving your apps on d: or e: or whatever.  reinstall windows, have
> registry with no additional software keys in it.  install apps over
> themselves, registry keys added, missing dll's added, stuff
> works, windows clean, all good. now 1 partition only, format c:.

Like I said originally, if you have to do a clean reinstall of Win, you have
to reinstall all the apps too. You're no better off with them on a separate
partition. The original claim that 'it makes it easier to trouble shoot,
reformatting and installing windows becomes easier' is just plain wrong.

And you're stuck with the problem that the drive letters change
if you put another hard drive in the system which has a primary
dos partition on it. You have to uninstall and reinstall all those
apps again. You dont if the boot drive just has one partition.

> reinstall windows, reinstall software, hey, where's my report?  crap
> i forgot to backup my word documents folder, off the "Documents"
> tree in my extremely huge c: partition, this wouldn't never have happened
> if i'd have made a partition for my documents and apps would it have?"

Thats only a justification for a separate partition for the data,
not the apps. And it makes a hell of a lot more sense just to
keep the data in a data tree under the root of the boot partition
and back that up properly so you dont go into wrist slashing
mode when the hard drive dies, as some inevitably do.

Its normally quite feasible to back up data and just accept the fact that a
full reinstall of Win and the apps is going to be needed if the hard drive dies.

And with a single partition boot drive, it becomes much more convenient
to have a smaller older hard drive as a backup location for your data tree
on the main hard drive, giving you less hassles on a hard drive failure.
And no farting around with drive letters changing when you add it.