ervenet Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 (edited) HelloI would like to have 3 partitions on my hard drive: 1st for WIndows XP (OS only)2nd for "program files"3rd for "document files"I know that the registry could be modified after installation:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersionCommonFilesDirProgramFilesDirBut I would like the new installation as clean as possible and would like to perform this tweak as soon as possible in order that the installation is going to be done with the partitioning scheme mentionned above.Thank you in advance for your help and additionnal suggestions. Edited September 8, 2011 by ervenet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Nlite allow you to provide any folder path for program files (in unattended then general) and any folder path for documents and settings (in options). You just need to create the partitions before and if you specified the right paths, it should do exactly what you wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 You just need to create the partitions beforeI confirm.+get your drive letters right If you're playing with 2 HDDs or mixing primary and extended partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ervenet Posted September 9, 2011 Author Share Posted September 9, 2011 Nlite allow you to provide any folder path for program files (in unattended then general) and any folder path for documents and settings (in options). You just need to create the partitions before and if you specified the right paths, it should do exactly what you wanted.Great...thank you very much.I know that I could have tested that myself before asking but I have a problem at startup with Win XP so I can't run nLite actually. I need to do a quick XP installation to prepare a WinLite CD to install XP again like I want.Again, thank you for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 One thing you might already have found out: we should have wroten "create partitions and format them before". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ervenet Posted September 16, 2011 Author Share Posted September 16, 2011 One thing you might already have found out: we should have wroten "create partitions and format them before".Allen2 said it in his message but I suppose that it is not a waste to repeat it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 He might have implied it but he did not say. Therefor it is not a repeat. Depending on the tool you use to create a partition, formatting it is not always an "obvious 2nd step". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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