Install MS Office 2007 to which drive?

[LeeLee]

Forgive me if this is too much of a beginner’s question for this forum, but it involves applications, so here goes:

I’ve proportioned my hard drives as follows: c=40, d=100 because I read that XP needs room to work. I plan to save all my documents on the d drive.

The question: I plan to install MS Office 2007 on my Sammy, but am not sure which drive to install it to. If I put it on the c drive, will that affect Windows XP operation?

Thanks for any advice.
LeeLee

[jez]

My line of thinking is normally to keep all “system” stuff on one drive, and all personal files on another. I prefer this as it makes backing up easier and should you ever do a reinstall it is obvious which drive you can wipe and which to keep!

Does it interfere with XP? No I wouldn’t be concerned by that. I think there is some argument that intensive apps that have lots of IO might be better on different drives and stuff but for Office I really can’t believe it would make a difference. XP likes a bit of working space (look round the forum for chat on pagefiles) but again I wouldn’t worry too much about this. We’re talking about minor tweaks here and with 40gb of free space it’s not a big deal for you.

Those with netbooks with a 4gb SSD (eg the early EEE PCs) will find all this much more of an issue. One advantage of having a bigger disk than we really need is that space shouldnt be a problem for most of us! 160gb is a lot of space – it’s easy to forget that. That represents more music than anyone could have time to listen to (maybe)!

imo, install on C:, move My Documents to D:

I’m sure someone will have another suggestion though!

[Alfihar]

[quote1229519470=jez]I think there is some argument that intensive apps that have lots of IO might be better on different drive[/quote1229519470]
As both partitions are on the same drive it shouldn’t make any difference speed wise in this case.

Personally I’d do the same and install office and any other programs on the C: drive, and use the D: drive just for your files and documents.

[angiekys24]

I had a question with installing personal files on D drive. I decided to put my personal (such as pictures and music) into my C drive and created a folder called “program files” in my D drive and have been installing my softwares here so far.

I did this because I found that when I went to start > my pictures (or my music) it automatically links it to the folder in my c drive and I wanted that shortcut. Is there any way to reassign this button to go to my D drive instead?

My other question is, why do computer manufacturers split the drives into C or D? My sony laptop only has one C drive and I’m wondering if splitting of drives make the computer somewhat “better”. And how do you proportion your drives?

Thanks

[ZPE]

I would put the music and pics on the D drive as the OS is on the C drive so you can reinstall without having to back up a lot of your files.

I partitioned my drive C: 50 GB and D : 97 GB as I wanted to throw in apps in the C drive leaving my files on the D drive.

Right-click My Documents on your desktop and set Target As to the place you want programs to redirect to for your pictures.

Partitioning makes organising files much more easier and say you wanted to install another OS. I think also fragmentation occurs less in the D drive as the C drive is isolated for paging and other repetitive system procedures.

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