AFV011
Senior Captain, B777-300
Joined on September 19 2004
GVA 5 Year Anniversary
Online Two Fifty Club
Triple Century Club
Historic Triple Century Club
"Remember...140, 250, and REALLY FAST" Midwestern United States
394 legs, 606.7 hours
274 legs,
430.6 hours online 86 legs,
126.5 hours ACARS 8 legs,
16.0 hours event 501 legs, 763.5 hours total
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Posted onPost created on
March 18 2006 09:48 ET by Michael Carter
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DVA1267
Senior Captain, B777-200
Joined on July 09 2003
Triple Century Club
"Tactless, Understood, Right" Colorado Springs, CO USA
368 legs, 1,943.8 hours
47 legs,
192.9 hours online 54 legs,
217.2 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 18 2006 11:51 ET by Matt Reamy
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Partitions are typically there to divide large disks into smaller ones. The logical drives (ie, partitions above the actual physical drive) can be done for any number of reasons. Conceivably you can back up stuff to a logical drive for instance (though, if the physical one gets damaged, you're still SOL). It could be done to speed things up as instead of searching through 80GB on one drive you're now searching through two 40GB drives. Maintenance won't take as long in that case (defrag, etc).
I've heard of utilities (Like Clean Sweep, I think it is) that can repartition w/out the resultant loss of data, but I've never used it so I don't know how well it works. Usually when you repartition it formats the drive as part of the process.
Instead of "moving" programs to your D drive, I'd advise you reinstall. If that's not an option, you can point the start menu links to the right folder. There's no guarantee the registry will note the move (hence the advice to reinstall the program on the drive you want).
I hope that helps, Michael.
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AFV011
Senior Captain, B777-300
Joined on September 19 2004
GVA 5 Year Anniversary
Online Two Fifty Club
Triple Century Club
Historic Triple Century Club
"Remember...140, 250, and REALLY FAST" Midwestern United States
394 legs, 606.7 hours
274 legs,
430.6 hours online 86 legs,
126.5 hours ACARS 8 legs,
16.0 hours event 501 legs, 763.5 hours total
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Posted onPost created on
March 18 2006 12:30 ET by Michael Carter
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DVA2787
Captain, B737-800
Joined on January 02 2006
Century Club
Online Century Club
"If it aint broke don't fix it." Cornwall Jamaica
160 legs, 599.8 hours
149 legs,
557.1 hours online 120 legs,
447.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 18 2006 18:51 ET by James Hepburn
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AFV011
Senior Captain, B777-300
Joined on September 19 2004
GVA 5 Year Anniversary
Online Two Fifty Club
Triple Century Club
Historic Triple Century Club
"Remember...140, 250, and REALLY FAST" Midwestern United States
394 legs, 606.7 hours
274 legs,
430.6 hours online 86 legs,
126.5 hours ACARS 8 legs,
16.0 hours event 501 legs, 763.5 hours total
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Posted onPost created on
March 19 2006 00:17 ET by Michael Carter
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The drive has mostly executables on it, with the actual programs on the C drive. I'm wasting a lot of space on the drive because I don't load or download anything to it. Having a second partioned drive is like having a red-headed stepchild.
You love it and you need it, but you'd rather it be a 'part of the family', IE, the C drive.
I don't want to delete anything from it, but I could certainly use the space in the future for other FS add-on's, or graphics programs or for storage.
When he gave me the system, FS9 was already loaded to the D drive. Well, right off I knew I didn't like that since every download for FS9 automatically points to the C drive where FS9 is normally loaded. I un-installed FS9 and bought a copy and re-loaded it to C drive. I tried a file copy, but as Matt said, the registry was screwed up after that. I had to go in a clean out the registry manually and still don't know if I got it all.
This is really no big deal. I was just wondering what my options were. Thanks for the replies folks. James, I'll keep that program in mind if I decide to change anything in the future.
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