ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS

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Hi everyone,
I understand that the above feature works on the primary hard drive. like
C:\. After my computer mysteriously crashed a week ago, I got a new hard
drive installed and it was made to be the primary one (120 GB Western
Digital EIDE). My older drive (80 GB Maxtor EIDE) now becomes secondary or
D:\. The store where I bought the Win XP Home computer last year
re-installed XP and some other applications (i.e. programs) on the 120 Gb
drive.

Now in the process of re-organizing my hard drives, I wish to move data
files to the 120 Gb drive, and re-format the older 80 Gb drive to house OS
and application files. How do I know which file is indeed the right one and
being in the correct drive when using Add/Remove Programs? I wish Microsoft
had added some enhancements to this feature so that one is certain about the
locations or paths of the programs involved. Are there any other
alternatives besides Add/Remove Programs feature?

I look forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks a lot.

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Hoa
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Hoa said:
Hi everyone,
I understand that the above feature works on the primary hard drive.
like C:\. After my computer mysteriously crashed a week ago, I got a
new hard drive installed and it was made to be the primary one (120
GB Western Digital EIDE). My older drive (80 GB Maxtor EIDE) now
becomes secondary or D:\. The store where I bought the Win XP Home
computer last year re-installed XP and some other applications (i.e.
programs) on the 120 Gb drive.

Now in the process of re-organizing my hard drives, I wish to move
data files to the 120 Gb drive, and re-format the older 80 Gb drive
to house OS and application files. How do I know which file is
indeed the right one and being in the correct drive when using
Add/Remove Programs? I wish Microsoft had added some enhancements to
this feature so that one is certain about the locations or paths of
the programs involved. Are there any other alternatives besides
Add/Remove Programs feature?

I look forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks a lot.
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Hoa

The Add/Remove Programs is used to either install or uninstall programs and
to add or remove Windows Components.

The Add/Remove component can install or uninstall programs/applications from
or to any drive on the system. The reason you are not seeing the programs
that are installed on the old 80GB drive in Add/Remove is due to the fact
that these programs were installed during a prior installation of XP. The
new installation of XP is not aware of them.

If you simply want to move data files from one hard drive to another, you
can open Windows Explorer and drag and drop the files from one drive to
another.

If you wish to move an entire program/application from one drive to another,
you will need to uninstall the application on the old drive and reinstall it
on the new drive.
 
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