Re: Do I really Need To Partition (or have separate disc drives)?

On Sep 17, 6:14 am, Laurence Payne <NOSPAMlpayne1ATdsl.pipex.com>
wrote:
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:53:47 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"

<fin...@xxxxxxxxxxxx/Odm> wrote:
One should know where & when to envoke 'restore' points. I'm not exactly
recommending not to be using them... it's just that of the system is stable,
turn off system restore in order to erase the months worth of backgroud
buildup... reboot and then turn it right back on. Could free up a couple of
Gigabytes, depending on how much was automatically or manually allotted.

Disk Cleanup (Programs/Accessories/System Tools) has a convenient
function to remove all but the most recent Restore Point. Useful when
you're about to back up your system partition and want to save
time/space. But the general answer is to just allocate a moderate but
sufficient amount of space to them, then forget all about it. Windows
is quite clever about creating a RP when one is appropriate.

What is NOT clever is creating a tiny C: partition and relentlessly
removing anything that doesn't absolutely HAVE to go there. It's
part of that obsession for "tidiness" that is so frequently
destructive.


Restore points won't save you every time, especially when the OS
becomes corrupt, and even the repair process can't be carried out. In
the problems I described, these point were useless, wrong solution for
the problem at hand. It acts more like a registry backup than
anything.

Also, you misunderstood my method. I'm not constantly removing
anything. I install to a different partition in the first place so
I'm never writing to the C drive unless I'm installing things like
codecs which is a one time thing. That's the whole point, you
minimize it to its essential purpose, the OS, and you never write to
it manually so you minimize fragmentation and potential for problems.
When problems arise they are quickly dealt with. If the OS required
re-installation then it's just a matter of deleting the partition,
creating the partition, and installing the OS on the new partition.
No loss of important files, no backups required. It's about as
painless as you can make it.

The My Documents move is permanent and requires no maintenance of
having to move things all the time. You move the root to your D
partition and then files get written to your D partition instead of to
C. The only files being written are those done by the OS
automatically. The only thing you have to do is defragment from time
to time and check disk only if you suspect errors, which if you follow
this advice, will likely be few to none. Check disk before you
defragment if you suspect errors.





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