mod installation

[HertogJan]

Originally Posted by TorpX

Respectfully, I disagree.

Respectfully, I disagree with your disagreement

Originally Posted by TorpX

I decided to make a partition of the 'C' drive and install SH and other software on it. This worked fine, until I was got some kind of dubious malware and had to go back to a system restore point and then I found Windows had renamed my partition and nothing installed there would operate. So, I ended up deleting the partition and installing everything on the system drive, 'C', as before.

I’m wondering when you created the partition and what drive letter the system gave it, if you created the partition after you installed you OS the drive letter is most likely not going to be D:/
I assume you have a DVD or Bleu-ray drive installed, maybe you have programs which creates a virtual drive, in any case, all will have a alphabetical drive letter before you create the new partition, HDD = C:\ , DVD = D:\, Virtual drive = E:\ and so on, when you create a new partition on your HDD on a existing system it will be F:\ and that’s where the problem lies… Windows doesn’t like that at all.

When you create a partition on a existing HDD or add a HDD to you system the drive letter should be D:\ , E:\ , F:\ ect.

A DVD player, Bleu-ray player or virtual drive should always have a lower alphabetical letter then the one’s for you HDD. (Except for external HDD which can be plugged in and out and is basically a very large memory stick).

Originally Posted by TorpX

Secondly, Windows takes up less than 10% of my 1TB 'C' drive. What should I do with the rest, let it stay empty? What exactly is the advantage of putting SH4 on another drive anyway?

Having one or multiple partitions on a HDD has its benefits, you can save your data like drivers, documents, photo’s, video’s, MOD’s and so on and not lose them after a hard crash.
When your system crashes you simply reinstall your OS on your primary partition and everything on you other partition(s) is still there, the only thing you have to do is reinstall the software to be able to access them.
I always create three partitions, one is a 300GG Programs/ Games partition, second is a 500GG movie partition and third is a 16Gb SoftLib (Software Library) for hardware drivers and software updates and update it every month so I don’t have to go on the internet or plug in a memory stick directly after reinstalling my OS, leaves +-130GG for my OS on the primary partition.

Most people nowadays have a external HDD and save their data on it so having partitions is sort of becoming obsolete but I can still think of a few advantages for having one or two partitions.

1) A thorough defrag of a 1Tb HDD is gonna take forever to finish, especially when you haven’t done so in a while.
2) Formatting that same Tb is going to be a long process as well.
3) Keeps your system and registry clean(er) which in turn keeps you system fast and fresh for a long time.
4) Easier to clean the registry when looking for specific registry key’s.
5) You can create/ allocate virtual memory on the new partition which speeds up the system a bit.


Those, for me anyway, are the reasons to make partitions and never install any program software other than primary programs like anti-virus-, tune up utility-, malware programs and video drivers on my C:\ drive.


HJ