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Hyper <jimb@snip.net> wrote in message news:37B9FF4E.32F52290@snip.net...
> Rod Speed wrote:
>> Hyper <jimb@snip.net> wrote

>>>> Yeah, and I'd move to a 12GB C drive now if it was me.

>>> you would put it all into the C drive???

>> Yeah, and have in fact just done so relatively recently in fact.

>>> i'd split it up into maybe 3 partitions, one for
>>> windows, one for apps/games, and one for data.

>> There's no point in splitting them at all now. If you want
>> simplistic backups or something, its easy enough to have
>> say the data in one tree under the root instead.

>> Then you dont have to get the partition sizes right, and you
>> dont have the small risk of apps not being as well debugged
>> when installing on other than the C drive that just bit him.

>>> two would be ok also, one for windows and one for apps/data

>> Completely pointless in my opinion.

> it makes it easier to trouble shoot, reformatting
> and installing windows becomes easier,

I'm not convinced. With the apps on the second
partition, you'll have to uninstall them and reinstall
them again if you reformat the C drive and reinstall Win.

> if windows manages to damage something (i've seen it happen to
> me), and you lose your C partition then you don't lose everything.

I think you have to backup the data that matters properly anyway, just
because hard drives die and you'll lose both partitions in that case.

> it is in general safer in my opinion

I'm notice convinced there is any real increased safety with more than
one partition, even if you hope for the best and never backup at all.

In some ways there is more risk of a problem unless you backup the
partition table because if that gets buggered, most people wont be
able to restore it so you can get access to the second partition again.
Rather easier to restore the partition table to something usable if there is
only a single partition because there's only one possible partition structure.

And if you want increased safety, there is only really one viable
approach, proper backups of what you'll slash your wrists if you lose.