Re: OT: improving Vista tips?

"Toby Newman" <google@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:slrngeq6fn.6dl.google@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 2008-10-08, Deano <deano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Toby Newman" <google@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 2008-10-08, Deano <deano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I used to partition my hard disk but gave up because I couldn't see
the benefit over a folder structure.


If the primary dies then any logical partitions will be accessible. You're
dividing your programs and data which is a very good idea. I keep my
working data on my laptop but data is archived onto two external drives
along with backups.
If my friend's drive were to die tomorrow he'd be in trouble.

If the primary dies because of physical disk failure (e.g. lightning
storm, physical impact, moisture, mechanical fault) then I wouldn't
hope for the survival of the second partition. Your first point
sounds like an excuse not to keep good backups. :)

Dividing programs and data can be done from a user's standpoint with
a folder structure. Dividing them across partitions reduces
defragmentation but a drive should really always be run with enough
space available to avoid heavy fragmentation.

Would love to be proven wrong here!

For me it's more about portability (can move paritions to their own drives if they become too big) and ability to run existing tools which rely on having disks to work with. So for example I now back up partitions instead of folders, and delete my whole T:/ partition (which has temp files) instead of multiple folders.

You're right though, all can be done just with 5 root folders or something.

Shak

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