demonikal
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I asked John in a PM what to do regarding doing a clean install of Win 7 on C: and programs on another drive. He said I should put OS + a few key important programs on C: and then I can put all the other programs and data on another drive.
Then I remembered that I had an mSATA SSD, 128GB, and I thought that would be perfect for Windows and whatever programs I put on there. Then I'll have a 256GB SSD for all the other programs. Then I'll have a 1TB SSHD for all my libraries (docs, music, pics, vids) and other data. I'll have a 1TB external HDD for imaging/backing up.
Here's what I saw the most from Google searches regarding how to do this with no real step-by-step. If what I want to do with 3 separate drives is in a Sticky, if someone can direct me there, that'd be awesome too:
1. You do a clean install of Windows 7 on C: - then you got to make some registry edits, just so you can have most of your programs on another drive. I just have no clue which ones that should be. And of course I couldn't find any step-by-step thing on how to do this.
2. You do a clean install of Windows 7 on C:, then you add folders to your other drive like, E:\Programs, E:\Programs (x86), E:\Documents, E:\Pictures, E:\Music, E:\Videos, and so on. And then when you download all the programs you normally have installed on your C: drive, you choose which drive to install them to and choose your E: drive before installing. But I just don't recall ever getting the choice which drive to install a program to It seems it always knew automatically that it had to install it to the C: drive.
And what key important programs should go on my C: drive with Windows Will it confuse Windows, having some programs on C: and other programs on E:
Here's a list of the programs I'll be adding once again as soon as I get responses and do a clean install:
Adobe AIR
Adobe Flash
Adobe Reader
Adobe Shockwave
Belarc
Box.net
CCleaner
Dropbox
Evernote
Google Chrome
iTunes
Java
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
Microsoft Office 365
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft Security Essentials OR Avast (I liked how Avast had the choice to schedule a boot scan, which MSE does not have)
Microsoft Silverlight
MiniTool
NVIDIA driver (for my graphics card)
paint.net
Spotify
Torguard
VLC
Deciding to do a clean install instead of trying to fix any malware issues. I get "smarter" every time I do a clean install anyway, considering it's quite a long ordeal for me, since I never have a backup of the original image of Windows immediately after activating the product key and adding just the programs I normally have. That's something I'll definitely be doing this time.
Then I remembered that I had an mSATA SSD, 128GB, and I thought that would be perfect for Windows and whatever programs I put on there. Then I'll have a 256GB SSD for all the other programs. Then I'll have a 1TB SSHD for all my libraries (docs, music, pics, vids) and other data. I'll have a 1TB external HDD for imaging/backing up.
Here's what I saw the most from Google searches regarding how to do this with no real step-by-step. If what I want to do with 3 separate drives is in a Sticky, if someone can direct me there, that'd be awesome too:
1. You do a clean install of Windows 7 on C: - then you got to make some registry edits, just so you can have most of your programs on another drive. I just have no clue which ones that should be. And of course I couldn't find any step-by-step thing on how to do this.
2. You do a clean install of Windows 7 on C:, then you add folders to your other drive like, E:\Programs, E:\Programs (x86), E:\Documents, E:\Pictures, E:\Music, E:\Videos, and so on. And then when you download all the programs you normally have installed on your C: drive, you choose which drive to install them to and choose your E: drive before installing. But I just don't recall ever getting the choice which drive to install a program to It seems it always knew automatically that it had to install it to the C: drive.
And what key important programs should go on my C: drive with Windows Will it confuse Windows, having some programs on C: and other programs on E:
Here's a list of the programs I'll be adding once again as soon as I get responses and do a clean install:
Adobe AIR
Adobe Flash
Adobe Reader
Adobe Shockwave
Belarc
Box.net
CCleaner
Dropbox
Evernote
Google Chrome
iTunes
Java
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
Microsoft Office 365
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft Security Essentials OR Avast (I liked how Avast had the choice to schedule a boot scan, which MSE does not have)
Microsoft Silverlight
MiniTool
NVIDIA driver (for my graphics card)
paint.net
Spotify
Torguard
VLC
Deciding to do a clean install instead of trying to fix any malware issues. I get "smarter" every time I do a clean install anyway, considering it's quite a long ordeal for me, since I never have a backup of the original image of Windows immediately after activating the product key and adding just the programs I normally have. That's something I'll definitely be doing this time.