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Tom MacIntyre <tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:37ba882b.110318232@news1.ns.sympatico.ca...
> Rod Speed <rodspeed@ozemail.com.au> 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.

> A reinstall-over is all that is usually necessary when Windows is fully refreshed...

Nope, a clean reinstall on a freshly formatted partition often
produces a much cleaner and more stable install. Specially if
there has been much installing and uninstalling of apps to try them.

> that will just set the links and registry entries while over-writing
> application original files only, leaving original configuration files, if any...

Just as true with a single partition instead of 2 or 3.