Re: New year, clean install, any advantage to having applications on D: instead of C:?

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, Jameshanley39@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
But I am not so keen on one HDD partitioned for apps and data.
It gives the option of deleting one partition, and your data being
fine. But that is scary.. What if you delete the wrong one, then you
lose your data.

That's not really the point ... it gives the option of wiping the
system partition and doing a clean reinstall of Windows when the system
borks itself (as it seems to do more often than it should) without
destroying the data partition.

The data partition should, of course, be backed up ... but as we all
know, when disaster does strike it picks the moment at which the
greatest damage will be done -- when you've just decided that that
overdue backup will have to wait another day! Even if you *do* have
up-to-date backups it's nice not to have to take the time to restore
all the data.

If data is on a separate hard drive then at least you can unplug the
drive with your data, before you go removing an OS partition.
(just as it is standard practice to remove any drive you are not
formatting, when formatting a drive. Because accidents do happen)

But that is scary.. What if you remove the wrong one, then you lose
your data.

<smile>

Cheers,
Daniel.


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