configuing hard drives in XP

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I want add second hard disk as slave on primary IDE to
increase storage for data (not necessarily backup) and
still use C: as is. Can I designate the new drive as a
target to save data through configuration or will I need
to indicate that preference in each single instance?
Maybe a dumb question but seems dumb also to dump old
perfectly good drive and have to clen install XP and etc.
on new one.

 

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Sure, you can determine where XP installs programs.
. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
2. Find ProgramFilesDir whose default should be C:\Program Files
3. Change this to whatever directory you wish. I changed it to D:\Program
Files for example.

Remember you have to reboot for your changes to show.



"nebib" <nebib@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I want add second hard disk as slave on primary IDE to
> increase storage for data (not necessarily backup) and
> still use C: as is. Can I designate the new drive as a
> target to save data through configuration or will I need
> to indicate that preference in each single instance?
> Maybe a dumb question but seems dumb also to dump old
> perfectly good drive and have to clen install XP and etc.
> on new one.

 

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nebib wrote on 21-Aug-2004 6:01 PM:

> I want add second hard disk as slave on primary IDE to
> increase storage for data (not necessarily backup) and
> still use C: as is. Can I designate the new drive as a
> target to save data through configuration or will I need
> to indicate that preference in each single instance?
> Maybe a dumb question but seems dumb also to dump old
> perfectly good drive and have to clen install XP and etc.
> on new one.

You could move your My Documents folder to the new hard drive to get
more space for your data. Right-click My Documents and move the Target.
That is the simplest way to get more room for your music and videos.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security