Best method of replacing C: drive

[Rod Speed]

Fisher wrote

If you install XP on drive D: then the default folder
in Program Files will be on D, so that's not an issue.

Actually, you need to make sure you have a very large
system partition. That partition does not have to be drive C.

GOOD. That is what the programmers are _supposed_ to do.

Nope, its sposed to go in the Applications Data tree.

 

[Fisher]

Or perhaps they're recognizing that the days when they can put files
wherever they want to are numbered and they are starting to put them in the
one place that they can reasonably expect a user account to have access?
That also in principle allows multiple users to play the game and keep
their settings and saved files and whatnot separate.

I don't want them seperate. I want all the game files kept instact in
their own folder - no registry entries would be nice too. Reg entries
are not needed for a lousy game. Delete folder and, *poof* , game is
gone. That's all that is really needed on a real OS.

 

[bdealhoy]

Definitely get a new hard disk. You can use Western Digital's Data
Lifeguard to clone the disk from your old one.

Then, if you don't want to waste a day or two, use In-Place Upgrade or
its equivalent for XP. Then get several Registry cleaners to clean out
the crap.

Do some research on the Microsoft support site.

I haven't looked at my new hard-drive in the last while, but I'm
willing to be dollars-to-doughnuts taht it's not.

Does every disk manufacturer have similar tools?

 

[J. Clarke]

I don't want them seperate. I want all the game files kept instact in
their own folder - no registry entries would be nice too. Reg entries
are not needed for a lousy game. Delete folder and, *poof* , game is
gone. That's all that is really needed on a real OS.

In a real OS a user can only install the game in his home directory or a
subdirectory thereof.

As for no registry entries, the purpose of the registry is to replace the
various .ini and .cfg and whatnot files with a central repository.