Re: Inspiron HD Failure

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You can do that, but I tend to put a multitude of common folders into a
partition. In the F:(Finance) partition goes folders for Bank accounts,
Investments, Hot Tips, Receivables, Credit Cards, Passwords, etc. It's just
easier for my brain to deal with the short term 'Finance', when I start to
look for something related to Finance.

And it's a bit easier to START looking at a list of drive (partition) names
in Explorer and drill down, than it is to look at a list of folders - this
list of drives is a lot shorter than the folders. To see an example, run
REGEDIT and drill down into the different 'folders'. It'll make your vision
blur.

And as I said before, it's a personal matter. I try to keep things as
simple as possible, so there's less to distract me, and a single drive list
(by category) works best for me. Your question implies it's as easy to use
one drawer of a 5-drawer filing cabinet, as it is to use all 5 drawers. And
you're absolutely right - except by using all 5-drawers, and spreading out
the categories, you don't have to work as hard to find what you're looking
for. When the one drawer fills up, and you're forced to use additional
drawers, you're facing a major reorganization of your data. I prefer to do
my subdividing from the get-go, and then forget about it.

Re efficiency of searching and machine performance, the system treats the
partition demarcation as it would a change in folders - simply as a location
change to a different track and sector. I suspect machine performance
wouldn't be measurable.

Toyman

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"Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8oAwg.2366$ik6.1181@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: OK, I admit I skimmed more than read, but why can't you accomplish the
same
: thing with a D: drive? Each of your drive letters can be a folder rather
: than a drive. For example, instead of J:, have a PC Resources folder.
:
: Significantly more efficient, both for searching and, more importantly,
for
: the performance of the machine.
:
: Tom
: "Toygirl" <toygirl00(nospam)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
: news:H9Sdnf6L-dc3TV_ZnZ2dnUVZ_sadnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: > Hmmmm, consider this. Think about having any and all of your paper
: > documents (personal letters, business letters, invoices, pictures, music
: > DVD's, bank statements, jokes, and anything/everything else) all stacked
: > haphazardly on a table. Every time you wanted a particular item, you
have
: > to sort through the entire stack to find it - and since there may be
: > multiple pages regarding the particular topic you're searching for, you
: > will
: > probably have difficulty putting it together - easily. To get organized
: > (and make your searches more efficient and faster), you decide to create
: > separate folders for each topic, and put them in a 5-drawer filing
: > cabinet,
: > in by-name order. Now you can save a ton of time, and spend more
leisure
: > time drinking the beverage of your choice - mine's bourbon. But
: > considering
: > it's bourbon, I don't want to have TOO much leisure time, or I can't
find
: > the file cabinet.
: >
: > I hate paperwork, and especially storing/finding papers, so I track as
: > many
: > things as possible on the computer. And to be able to find things more
: > easily, I've subdivided the physical hard drive (C:\) into logical
: > partitions - which means using a program to electronically mark the
: > physical
: > hard drive into multiple sections. Those are labeled by successive
: > letters.
: > C: is usually the root or 'boot' directory, and contains files the
: > operating
: > system needs to function. The additional drives (or logical sectors)
for
: > my
: > machine are labeled D:(Communications), E:(Entertainment), F:(Finance),
: > G:(Graphics), H:(Utilities), I:(Web), J:(PC Resources, K:(Backup),
: > L:(Archives), M:(Unallocated), etc. My CD and burner drives are at the
: > end
: > of the list. And when I plug in my external hard drive, XP 'finds' it
and
: > assigns it a letter - which disappears when I unplug it. The logical
: > drives
: > can be any size I choose to make them - e.g my Graphics drive (G:) has
5GB
: > allocated to it for storing digital pix and the movies I create from my
: > digital vidcam. It's all comparable to having different e-mail
folders -
: > i.e. Inbox, Outbox, Sent, Deleted, etc.
: >
: > Try to imagine how much trouble I'd have trying to find a particular
: > digital
: > picture if everything was stored in one place - drive C:. By having
: > things
: > sorted like this, I can open Explorer, go to the Graphics drive, and
: > either
: > file-search or scan the pix to find the one I want- much faster than
: > searching everything on C:. Or maybe this is a better example: I
: > regularly
: > use Adaware, Spybot, Hijack This, Microsoft AntiSpyware (Beta), and
Norton
: > Internet Security. I DON'T like a cluttered desktop, so have only 6
icons
: > displayed. I'd recently downloaded, but not installed 'F-Secure
Backlight
: > (Beta)' because I was having problems deleting cookies. A couple of
weeks
: > went by and I saw a another reference to that program and the problems I
: > was
: > having. I thought I had downloaded it, but wasn't sure, so to check, I
: > went
: > to the I:(Web) drive and looked in the 'Downloads' folder - and found
it.
: > Ran the program which seemed to 'fix' the problem. I don't know if I
: > would
: > have found it on one, big C: drive.
: >
: > Logical drives (i.e. partitions) may not work for everyone, but I'd be
: > hard
: > pressed to function without them. The vast majority of computer users
: > don't
: > really know how to do much except run programs, and when something
: > hiccups,
: > they run for help - which is good, because there are a lot of
: > skilled/experienced folks out there who are excellent helpers. The
other
: > computer users have either been working with computers since Topsy was a
: > colt (that means they're older than dirt, like me) and/or they've had
some
: > formal/informal education to learn more than the casual PC user. I'm
: > older
: > than dirt, and have had a bunch of formal pc/systems education. I was
: > also
: > an IT Rep at Caterpillar for a few years. Please don't hold that
against
: > me, though - I'm retired now. And it paid the bills. I've also taught
: > basic hardware/software classes at work, and local PC stores. What's
all
: > that mean? I can probably do a lot more with a computer than you.
: > Doesn't
: > make me better, just more knowledgeable.
: >
: > Don't know what your level of expertise is, but since you asked the
: > question, I feel only a 'little bad' about the long-winded answer I gave
: > you. That may be a symptom of being over 60 & retired. My (still
: > working)
: > wife is one of those "vast majority of computer users" and all of the
: > neighbors are at work. No one to talk to about these things, so I
: > blathered. Apologies offered.
: >
: > Toyman
: > ___________________________________
: >
: >
: >
: >
: > "Frazer Jolly Goodfellow" <no-spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: > : "Toygirl" <toygirl00(nospam)@hotmail.com> wrote in
: > : news:Cf2dnbHJKJm2Bl_ZnZ2dnUVZ_sCdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:
: > :
: > : > I'll plan on having 12 or so partitions
: > :
: > : Whyever would you want to do that?
: >
: >
:
:


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