Paul, I don't have the answer to your changing default installation drives,
but have some other comments. What you are doing is great from a data
integrity view, but you may not accomplish what you think when you reformat
and re-install Windows on "C:" drive.   Almost certainly 90 percent of the
applications on D: will not work with the re-format and re-install of
Windows on C: drive.  Any modern Windows applications of any significance
add information to the Windows Registry (on C: drive) and will be adding
files to the C:\Windows\System directory.  The best you could hope for is
to re-install all of your applications on the D: drive again, and recover
the data that they had before the corruption.  Don't know if this helped or
not!

Doug


At 1/21/01 05:32 AM, Paul Tiwana wrote:

>When I install a new programs,  by default it lands  itself on the C: drive.
>i would like all my programs to park on D: drive.  so that if my windows
>files are corrupted, I can format only the C: drive and reinstall windows
>98SE back  on it.
>I can do it manually when it gives me the choice to Browse, but I want it
>to go there  by default.

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