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Agreed Hertog. When I was in school learning NT Server and Work Station it was always taught as best practices not to install programs to a system drive. Hardware or software failure on that drive could be more easily rectified when the only thing residing on it was the OS.

With several different RAID arrays available these days it makes swapping out a hard drive and recreating the system drive really easy.

My system drive is only 300 gigs in size and only 100 gigs gets used and that is over five years of service. With all the address swapping that windows generates keeping the drive clean of other programs helps in OS longevity. My other hard drives especially the two Terabyte drive is where I install programs and save data.

I was taught by instructors who pushed best practices as not even allow windows to have "My Documents" or "My" anything on the system drive. That way if the sysdrive went bad or corrupted you do not lose those items in a crash. Back in the NT days it was all about DATA salvation so nothing gets saved to a sysdrive. We were taught that a dead OS is no big deal. Whether through hardware fault or system data corruption you just give it a quick redo or swap out the drive and all programs and data are still intact.