Re: Hard Drive Replacement

nesredep egrob wrote:

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:06:40 -0400, John John <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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Devalzadvok8 wrote:


My problem is somewhat similar to Norm's. I have two hard drives, the first ,currently, an 80 Gig IDE 'C' drive that also has 'D' and 'E' partitions. All my system software, Windows, etc. is on my 'C' drive. All my data files are on my 'D' partition. All my application programs are on my 'E' partition.

There is practically no advantage to having the applications on a separate partition.


Oh dear me - should not have written that.

There is a massive improvement if you are clever enough to use Acronis for
backups.

I do use Acronis and what massive improvements does having the programs on a separate drive make? What does this have to do with anything? Installing programs on a different drive makes absolutely no difference whatsoever in performance, none, zero, zilch! What massive improvements are you talking about? Do you mean that when you do a backup or create an image it will take about four minutes more time to do a larger OS image? And what about the programs drive? Don't you have to image that too? So now instead of having everything on one image you have to create two different images every time you want to back things up and if you want to restore you have to restore two images, I can't see what good that does.

John
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