XP and its woes

[pne]

It's rather annoying that so many programs under XP (including two of the preinstalled ones - one of them associated with the antivirus program!) fail if they're not run from an account with administrator privileges.

This is getting annoying enough that I'm tempted to give all accounts administrator privileges.

I'm also rather used to just writing into any directory I feel like.

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Another annoying thing is that I'm not so sure what to do with the partitions - I'd like to keep my previous scheme (C = system, D = programs, E = data) since it makes it easier to reinstall the system if necessary (only C needs to be wiped) or backup stuff (only E).

The hard drive is partitioned into C (~40% of the disk space, NTFS), D (~40%, FAT32) and E (~10%, FAT32), where C = system and most other stuff, D = tools, E = recovery partition.

So since a bunch of stuff probably relies on knowing what's in C, D, or E, I'm not sure whether I can just change this around. (And I'm not sure whether my old-ish version of Partition Magic can resize NTFS partitions.)

Hm.

Ideally, I'd have a much smaller C partition, a medium-sized D one, and a largish E one, plus room for alternative operating systems such as Linux.

Comments

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

You can't easily move an application from C: to D: - the best way is to remove it and reinstall it on the other drive. You may know this or you may not, but WinXP's NTFS != Win2000 NTFS != WinNT NTFS. Therefore just because it says it'll do NTFS on the box, doesn't necessarily mean it'll do WinXP NTFS. Also, if you had the partions stored across several disks, NTFS stores the drive letter as part of the partition info - i.e. if I had two FAT32 drives each with one partition (so one disk was C: and one was D:), if I swapped the cables on them, C: would become D: and D: would become C:. If you did this with two NTFS drives, your computer would act just the same, C: would still be C: and D: still be D: - this is assuming D: was a bootable partition. This has caused me great annoyance in the past, needless to say!:D