- registry not lost?

[VirusType2]

You could put games on the other drive.

The reason I don't is because if i reinstall myr OS then I reinstall the games anyway (registry info lost). Putting the things I want to load quick, OS and Games, away from my random MP3's, Videos or project files which are constantly deleted and and created means they won't be in the fragmented mess. You don't have to backup the games, just the OS if you want.

I always put he swap file on the 2nd drive too.

The reason I bought a 2nd drive today was so that when I re-install windows or format my boot/OS drive, I won't have to re-install my games.

I was going to put all my games on there.(new hard drive)

The problem about the registry info lost...
That pretty much ruins my plans.
-Can't I export my registry with regedit then back it up , then format/re-install windows - then import my saved registry so all my games installed on new hard drive don't need to be re-installed?

will that work?

otherwise I just bought a drive that I don't need.

 

[The Dark Elf]

you dont want to be doing things like that wit hthe registry, unless its an absolute carbon copy, things will get weird.

It might work, but tbh games don't put all that much in the registry, and if thats all your needing to do, then just install them by hand. importing the entire registry, you'd have to make sure everything is installed that was before or you'd maybe get it asking for things that didn't exist and other things going on.

You can try though I guess. I suppose if you backed up the C: drive in full, reinstalled that, and then reinstalled your games in the exact same places, it "might" be ok. You could do things like this on win9x much easier than win2k and above.. used to be able to just zip up win9x and it would work first time when copied back, I miss being able to do that, was nice n easy

 

[VirusType2]

that blows
windows blows

Is there any storage medium where I can install a game and never have to worry about re-installing it?

..

I have lost so many game keys that half my games can't be used.

Besides its so much more than a major Pain in the ass to re-install 300 GB worth of games. :x :flame: :x :flame: :x

I guess I'll try and take back the hard drive and just don't bother installing any games unless I want to play them,.. by the time I play them once its about time for WindowsXP to bug-out

 

[oni_666]

If you want a complete carbon copy of the registry try "erunt" (google for it) it backs up the entire registry as far as I know.

 

[The Dark Elf]

that blows
windows blows

Is there any storage medium where I can install a game and never have to worry about re-installing it?

..

I have lost so many game keys that half my games can't be used.

Besides its so much more than a major Pain in the ass to re-install 300 GB worth of games. :x :flame: :x :flame: :x

I guess I'll try and take back the hard drive and just don't bother installing any games unless I want to play them,.. by the time I play them once its about time for WindowsXP to bug-out

Thats the one thing I really hate with Windows these days, how the registry, well, exists, and how programs install files all over the place. It made sense way back when HDD's were small and using the same file for various programs made sense. But these days it would hardly matter if a program kept everything related to it within its own directory, dll files, saves, codecs, resources, the lot. Remove the need for uninstall programs, you'd just delete the directory and that would be that, or move it elsewhere and it would run as normal (maybe using a relative path so you could move it to whatever Drive letter you wanted and it wouldn't care)

If an OS was done like that, which could actively refuse a program from using files outside of its directory aswell as installing anything outside of it, it could probably limit trojans and viruses too, since the OS would force them to install to its own dir, preventing them installing into the system or running without your say so.

I miss Dos, Amiga's and and C64's

 

[VirusType2]

Thats the one thing I really hate with Windows these days, how the registry, well, exists, and how programs install files all over the place. It made sense way back when HDD's were small and using the same file for various programs made sense. But these days it would hardly matter if a program kept everything related to it within its own directory, dll files, saves, codecs, resources, the lot. Remove the need for uninstall programs, you'd just delete the directory and that would be that, or move it elsewhere and it would run as normal (maybe using a relative path so you could move it to whatever Drive letter you wanted and it wouldn't care)

If an OS was done like that, which could actively refuse a program from using files outside of its directory aswell as installing anything outside of it, it could probably limit trojans and viruses too, since the OS would force them to install to its own dir, preventing them installing into the system or running without your say so.

I miss Dos, Amiga's and and C64's

Amen to thaT