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Article #258Re: help, windows will only start in safe mode
From: Hyper
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:00
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Rod Speed wrote: > > Hyper <jimb@snip.net> wrote in message > news:37B8FA7A.63CBEE72@snip.net... > > >> 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, 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. it is in general safer in my opinion -- My heart goes out to the families of Gene Hart and Dimitri Tertyshny Who both died tragically during the month of July, in two seperate instances May both of your souls rest in peace Personal page -- http://members.xoom.com/Hyper_Hands/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f42b5,5f6974e49456f2b4 X-Google-Attributes: gidf42b5,public X-Google-Thread: fde9e,5f6974e49456f2b4 X-Google-Attributes: gidfde9e,public X-Google-Thread: 100597,5f6974e49456f2b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid100597,public X-Google-Thread: 1070cf,5f6974e49456f2b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid1070cf,public X-Google-Thread: 1020d9,5f6974e49456f2b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid1020d9,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,5f6974e49456f2b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public From: Hyper <jimb@snip.net> Subject: Re: help, windows will only start in safe mode Date: 1999/08/17 Message-ID: <37B9FF4E.32F52290@snip.net> X-Deja-AN: 514005854 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7pa1p4$32i$1@ffx2nh5.news.uu.net> <ET5u3.3532$O_1.20832@ozemail.com.au> <37B8FA7A.63CBEE72@snip.net> <fgbu3.3733$O_1.21412@ozemail.com.au> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: None, very disorganized Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.certification.mcse,alt.computer,alt.os.windows95,alt.windows95,alt.windows98,aus.computers