Re: OS on a logical drive by itself?

In article <kolg4696uvlfls6imnv5s8vfftut2q40jk@xxxxxxx>,
kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...


Although some people have that point of view, I don't agree at all.
You might like to read my views on partitioning in this article I've
written: "Understanding Disk Partitioning" at
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=326

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1. If your backup scheme is to image the entire drive, have just a
single partition (usually C:).

2. If you just backup data, set up two partitions: one for Windows and
installed application programs (usually C:), and the other for data
(usually D:).

In my opinion, except for those running multiple operating systems, you
seldom get any benefit to having more than two partitions.
[/Quoting]

There is another backup scheme where 2 partitions is advantage:

Imaging whole system/application partition C
and backuping just part of data partition D.


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