Hello all,
Happy to be part of the group! Bare with me; I'm a newbie to all of this.
Installed XP 3 times on 3 partitions on my 160 GB hardrive (C: 110GB, G: 25GB, and F: 15GB). The XP running on partition C (110GB) I wish to keep pristine. The XP's running on partiton G and F are for opening questionalbe files, keygens, for installing questionable programs to determine how they run, etc.
Problem: when I install programs I suspect to be problematic form the XP running on partition G or F, their files are stored not on drive G or F but instead on drive C. Drives G and F are virtually empty while Drive C has used up 40GB. I'm not so much concerned with the location of stored files; my main concern is that the XP running on drive C is not corrupted from malicious files that may have been saved on it from programs installed on XP's running on partitions G and F. Will corrupt files seemingly stored onto drive C from XP's running on other partitions corrupt the XP running on it? Please enlighten. I am currently running an updated anti-virus program - Trend Micro Internet Security Pro - on all three partitions and, although the full system scan hasn't detected any viruses, I still wonder whether it simply hasn't recognized viruses yet to be identified because I'm positive I've opened malicious files in the XP running on partiton G. As well, when I'm logged into the XP running on partition C, partition G becomes partition I.
Happy to be part of the group! Bare with me; I'm a newbie to all of this.
Installed XP 3 times on 3 partitions on my 160 GB hardrive (C: 110GB, G: 25GB, and F: 15GB). The XP running on partition C (110GB) I wish to keep pristine. The XP's running on partiton G and F are for opening questionalbe files, keygens, for installing questionable programs to determine how they run, etc.
Problem: when I install programs I suspect to be problematic form the XP running on partition G or F, their files are stored not on drive G or F but instead on drive C. Drives G and F are virtually empty while Drive C has used up 40GB. I'm not so much concerned with the location of stored files; my main concern is that the XP running on drive C is not corrupted from malicious files that may have been saved on it from programs installed on XP's running on partitions G and F. Will corrupt files seemingly stored onto drive C from XP's running on other partitions corrupt the XP running on it? Please enlighten. I am currently running an updated anti-virus program - Trend Micro Internet Security Pro - on all three partitions and, although the full system scan hasn't detected any viruses, I still wonder whether it simply hasn't recognized viruses yet to be identified because I'm positive I've opened malicious files in the XP running on partiton G. As well, when I'm logged into the XP running on partition C, partition G becomes partition I.