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Vitaminx · 3 Weeks Ago

I have a quick question about partitions. I have a gaming and music partition on my hard drive along and am wondering if when installing a game do I install directly into the C drive then copy the files to the partition or install directly into the gaming partition?

ImmortalKenny · 3 Weeks Ago

I would install it directly on the partition.

Vitaminx · 3 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by ImmortalKenny

I would install it directly on the partition.

Directly onto it, ok. Is there any difference in installing it to the C drive and then copying it to the partition?

ImmortalKenny · 3 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by Vitaminx

Directly onto it, ok. Is there any difference in installing it to the C drive and then copying it to the partition?

Might work, might not. I honestly don't know. My only fear would be that something would try to access files that were installed onto the C:\ partition, but are now somewhere else on your HDD.

Why are you trying to make this complicated by having a "Games" partition when you only have a single HDD? Why not just install it on the C:\ partition and call it good?

Chaos Assasson · 3 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by ImmortalKenny

Might work, might not. I honestly don't know.

Why are you trying to make this complicated by having a "Games" partition when you only have a single HDD? Why not just install it on the C:\ partition and call it good?

to have it like having multiple hdds so incase something happens to the main partition the others arnt bothered

Vitaminx · 3 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by ImmortalKenny

Might work, might not. I honestly don't know. My only fear would be that something would try to access files that were installed onto the C:\ partition, but are now somewhere else on your HDD.

Why are you trying to make this complicated by having a "Games" partition when you only have a single HDD? Why not just install it on the C:\ partition and call it good?

Isn't the point of partitions to put things on you want saved incase you are forced to reinstall your operating system.

rising^raveN · 3 Weeks Ago

Install it directly to the specific partition you wish to have it on, the whole point is organization and security.

ImmortalKenny · 3 Weeks Ago

Ok, I see what you're getting at. I have never bothered with partitions to be honest.

iquark · 3 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by Vitaminx

Isn't the point of partitions to put things on you want saved incase you are forced to reinstall your operating system.

This doesn't really work out in the end. A lot of the games (no matter how much you try to change it) still put a number of files on the system partition. If you have to reinstall, a majority of them will not work without a corresponding reinstall of the game.

ImmortalKenny · 3 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by iquark

This doesn't really work out in the end. A lot of the games (no matter how much you try to change it) still put a number of files on the system partition. If you have to reinstall, a majority of them will not work without a corresponding reinstall of the game.

That's what I was thinking about as well. What about the registry?

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rising^raveN Overclocker Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 24 Rep: 3 Unique Rep: 2 Trader Rating: 0	Install it directly to the specific partition you wish to have it on, the whole point is organization and security. __________________ *When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free" - Linus Torvalds*

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