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Nemesis_0_
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Posted: 18th Nov 2007 20:09
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Serious question! Who has named their hard drive something other than C:/ (like Q:/ X:/ etc..)
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bitJericho
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Posted: 18th Nov 2007 20:16
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My old setup had my c drive on d:, but only because of by accident:o)

I normally name my other drives though, like my music drive is m:, and videos are v:, swap partition is s:, etc...


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hessiess
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/dev/sda1, os

/dev/sda5, data

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Roxas
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Posted: 18th Nov 2007 20:22 Edited at: 18th Nov 2007 20:23
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And thread point was?

Anwyasy..
My c drive is named C: and my another drive is named 80gig

Oh yeah.. and in ubuntu i had

/dev/sda1
/dev/sda5

thanks for reminding hessies


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Mr Z
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In xp, my C drive is called C.

In ubuntu, the main partition is called sda2.

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Nemesis_0_
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Posted: 18th Nov 2007 20:55
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Quote: "And thread point was?"


to find out when coding an installer if for the general user if its really worth allowing you to select where to install too...
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Squelchy Tom
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Posted: 18th Nov 2007 21:11
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borris:/
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bitJericho
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Posted: 18th Nov 2007 21:17
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Quote: "to find out when coding an installer if for the general user if its really worth allowing you to select where to install too..."


It's extremely important. Not only do you have to worry about the drive it's getting installed to, people move their folders around, for example, my Documents folder is not in it's normal place, I move it to another drive so that if I format or the drive becomes inoperable I don't lose my documents.

On top of that, people who dual boot a lot of times don't use the c: drive for their windows installation.

And then there's people who don't want stuff installed to their c drive but another drive.

In fact, unless you have to, you shouldn't even use an installer, they're really annoying when trying out demos and stuff.


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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 18th Nov 2007 21:54
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Quote: "to find out when coding an installer if for the general user if its really worth allowing you to select where to install too..."

OMFG, I installed a program (The GIMP) the other day and it didn't let me select where to install to and it pissed me off. My C:\ drive is only 12 GB with maybe 20 MB free (Has Windows Vista). The drive that I put all my files on is my E:\ drive (Has files). And the drive that Windows XP is stored on is the D:\ drive (I think). And trust me, I'm gonna need some additional hard drives soon. :/


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Guyra
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Posted: 18th Nov 2007 22:10
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Back in the days of 98(and a little on 2000) I changed the drive letters, but now I just don't see the point in it. :p
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Dazzag
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Posted: 18th Nov 2007 23:27 Edited at: 18th Nov 2007 23:27
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Quote: "and it didn't let me select where to install to"
Yeah, I was going to say that I have seen a fair few apps over the years that insist on C drive. Not common, and these days almost unseen, but it still does happen (esp. on betas) and you are stuffed if you want to install an old app.

Other question is why not have a C drive?... Anyone remember the days of having B drives?

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lol 5.25" floppies, I still have a drive and some of those floppies in a box around here somewhere. mobo's still support them, at least mine does iirc. Some people dont use the 3.5 floppies any more either. I find them essential for system maintenace (bios updates, etc) and trouble shooting in a dos boot environment.

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The crazy
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Posted: 19th Nov 2007 02:18
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I call my c drive Corey:/... tis my name...

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Phaelax
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Quote: "5.25" floppies, I still have a drive and some of those floppies in a box around here somewhere"

me too. I think i have fortran on one of them.


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Nemesis_0_
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Posted: 19th Nov 2007 18:13
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okokok my installer has the option to choose where to install it too! :p
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mikeh926
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Vista is my C, and XP is H. For most installers i just delete it where it says C, and replace it with an H. Works fine most of the time.
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Quote: "okokok my installer has the option to choose where to install it too! :p "

way to go

also common is dual booting, where one drive is one letter and os, the others are other letters and os's. My old 2k machine was originally a 98 box on C, then I added a second hdd as D and installed 2k on it, and that became the default boot drive. I would be out of luck if an installer forced C as the drive, or it would be out of luck rather

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Nemesis_0_
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lol i just wanted to be lazy and have it always go to C: so that way the changing between the play and install buttons for the launcher was easy, but now i just added a function to search all available drives for the programs install (i dont exaclty know how to add stuff to like the windows registry, or to search it so this is the easiest way to do it.) and if it can find it, it says play and executes the games play file when clicked, and if it cant find an installed file the button says install and will access the install file
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Dazzag
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Quote: "also common is dual booting, where one drive is one letter and os, the others are other letters and os's"
True, although on mine the booted OS is C: and the other OS is D: So currently in Vista, Vista is C: and XP is D: But if I boot in XP then XP is C: and Vista is D:

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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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Posted: 20th Nov 2007 09:22
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my pc has

A = Floppy
C = Main HDD
D = DVD1
E = DVD2
F = HDD2
G = HDD3
H = HDD4 (old one from old pc)
I = HDD5 (got my downloads on it like linux, videos etc
J = Virtual DVD (for mounting linux.iso and junk like that)
Y = Network HDD1
Z = Network HDD2

lol, a lot of crap

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Grandma
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^My range of harddrive partitions alone range from C to Q, so HA!

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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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yer, if i partition mine i can get more, but i cbb to partition, dont really see the point just make folders

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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I dont - Mac's dont use drive letters

My applications are at /Applications, and my NAS drives are smb:://dlink-89e8e2/Volume_1 and Volume_2

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macs can if ur running bootcamp i think :p My prog is in DBP anyways so it doesnt run on a mac... although I have a mac mini for my audio stuff :p
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OSX Using Happy Dude
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If your using Bootcamp, then your running Windows.

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Nemesis_0_
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I know, but u said

Quote: "I dont - Mac's dont use drive letters"


when technically if u are running bootcamp on a mac, ur still on a mac :p
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BMacZero
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My hard drives are D:/ and E:/ because of something that got messed up when we installed the second one. My flash drive is C:/


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Chuck Norris doesn't use drive letters, the files just know where they're supposed to go....


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