[SOLVED] Installing programs to 2nd Hard Drive, on 64-bit OS.

Thanks for the welcome~~

I probably didn't make it as clear in writing as I did in me own head on the end of that~~ I sort of figured there are subtle differences between 7 and vista...
I meant have like 4 folders 2 for 7 as above and 2 for vista.. named for the specific os...

Kind of figured it might cause breaks by moving them now after they are already installed... Perhaps on my next re-install I will place all the programs seperately partitioned.. All except CS4 that program is difficult enough normally.. sheeesh~~

You could still move them if you would consider un-installing them first. This would allow for installing them to the new location and cleaning most of the file out of the original Program Files location.

Hi again,
I've been installing and running a number of programs over the last few days through the second hard drive, and it seems W7 is behaving just fine with them.

I ran into a temporary glitch initially, but found it was simply a compatibility issue, and nothing to do with installation on the 2nd drive. W7 did a nice job of setting up the program to run in XP / service pack 2 mode. No problems since then.

I wish I'd asked sooner, before my Son installed World Of Warcraft on C, haha. Ah well, ... will have to live with that one for now.

Thanks again to all of you who offered advice.

Cheers.

As I just did a nice new clean install of windows7/vista and got everything nice and clean and running perfectly at the moment, I think I will add the folders for new program installs and leave the current ones the way they are.

A second HDD is the best place for large apps (eg) Games, as it wont bog down your OS.

Please explain to me how installing games "bogs down your OS". They are not running at startup. It's startup apps and services that slow down your OS not installed software.
That's what defragging is for anyway.

On the contrary I'm going to install all my games on my primary drive (THE FASTEST DRIVE!) with the OS and save the backup drive for files and apps that I don't use much and that aren't as demanding as games.

The other benefit is if your primary drive goes, as mentioned above you only lose your OS & installed games, not the important stuff.

Save your faster drive for games.