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Tatsujin:

--- Quote from: Slysoft on October 23, 2009, 12:05:00 AM ---I'm currently looking at buying one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822135106 to act as a dedicated OS disk. My only question is, what are the problems, if any, that result from installed ALL applications on a seperate drive? I'm planning on keeping only the OS on this drive, so that I can simply reformat it every two months and not have to worry about reinstalling everything. Would this work out?

Thanks.

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grab a 200-300GB one, install all your applications on there. ONLY installed files, and just have the "installation files" on a separate partition. thats what i do. if OS gets hit, just wipe-clean and re-install your files from your installation folder.

Lupin:
Image your OS drive after you reinstall all your software. Use the image the next time you reinstall

kostya:
I am not sure that the constant wipes will fix things if you keep all the programs that were installed. I doubt that your OS somehow develops performance issues on its own. I would suspect that it is a build up of software that runs in the background and hogs CPU/bandwidth. The clean OS wipe gets you back to the bare essentials for software.

psyren:
If you don't need a great deal of space, short stroke your HDD.
I've heard about it, but do some research and see if it'll work for you.

TorturdChaos:
I have my computer setup with a 15 gig partition for windows, then the rest of the 500 gig hdd is for my my docs and program files.  There are guides a plenty for changing where your my docs and program files are.  Best to change everything right off the bat when you do an install, even before installing drivers or anything.

I have notices since I set my computer up like that it has been a lot more stable than any other machine I have run in the past.

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