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Question: 2 installs?

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Post Fri Feb 28, 2003 10:27 pm

Question: 2 installs?

Hey, I've just never had a reason to try this, so I don't know... can you install a game twice in different directories so I could have one modded for SP, and one clean for MP, or would it cause registry issues or something?

Post Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:04 pm

Maybe when you got two harddisks, or create partitions on one hardisk.

But maybe it works on one HDD, but i dunno.

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Post Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:44 pm

I think it's not possible. When you insert the CD to install it it'll ask you to un-install or play it. So this a no.

Post Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:51 pm

Well you could just copy the files from one directory to another. Then switch them around before you go online. But that might cause some issue with windows (whats new).

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Post Sat Mar 01, 2003 10:07 am

Perhaps with Dual Boot.

Post Mon May 19, 2003 12:16 pm


create partitions on one hardisk

quick question, does your original HDD space actually shrink after partioning or do they actually increase after making partition, some say it increases, i personally think its shinks coz i got this figure from my hdd
2.33
3.51
3.89
3.89
4.96
Total-14.69
it seems waaay to low for a 20 GB HDD

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Post Mon May 19, 2003 12:46 pm

Most 20 Gb drives should be around 18.4 - 19.4 Gb, i'd say you've probably got some unpartitioned space on your disk. However what in gods name possesed you to partition a 20 gb hard drive 5 ways??? Personally I wouldn't have bothered at all, just as long as you defrag it once a fortnight it shouldn't give you any grief.



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Post Mon May 19, 2003 1:41 pm

but somehow, my dad was tinkering with the comp and got two os's into the comp. mine's a 40gb, with 38 tangible gigs.
he got an XP and win 2000 on it. the XP is korean. seeing that that's possible, i think installing twice shouldn't be too hard. why don't you just copy onto a different parition like one b4 me did ? but i see no need. and what on earth do you want to do with 5 HDDs ? you'd have drive C, D, E, F, G and then H would be your cd drive. A would be your 3.44 floppy, and B do you know what B is? 50 points to the correct person.

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Post Mon May 19, 2003 3:33 pm

B: is usually used for an extra Floppy, either 3.5 or 5.25....

Historically....anyway...I haven't tried changing that.

I used to have, back in the day....

A: 3.5"
B: 5.25"
C: HDD D: HDD > All three real hard drives
E: HDD /
F: CD ROM (Before CDRW drives)

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Post Wed May 21, 2003 6:39 pm

Bo, I dont have an unpartitioned HDD space, I used Partionmagic and no i dont see any unpartioned space, pesonally I choose 5 why?
its simply because
c:SYSTEM (5.00G
e:APPLICATION(4.00G
f:GAMES(3.00G
g:MUSIC(3.50G
hOWNLOADS(2.33G
x:CDRW
y:CDROM
it makes maintenance much easier.installed Programs do not make my C Drive occupied and i can easily delete uninstalled leftover programes. BTW XP has massive amount of files system that will take time for Antivirus scans and that sucks.if i know my music files never got changed so why bother Defragmenting?
it takes waay alot longer with high GBs.


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